For years, You Tube has been the face of new media. People who represent the political right, like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder got their message out to the world, leaning heavily on You Tube and daily shows.
People who were traditionally more centrist or even left-wing, like Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin brought their voices to You Tube and developed large followings.
You Tube was where the message was getting out. It didn’t require expensive equipment and studios or the support of a large staff. People could tell the world what they thought with a mobile phone.
In recent years, many of these people have complained about increasing restrictions to what they could say, imposed by You Tube. Often, these restrictions were vague and applied in ways that creators on You Tube couldn’t understand or were applied unfairly (later being reversed by You Tube, but not without doing damage). There were several instances where You Tube censored creators, over COVID-19, for example, when You Tube claims they were spreading misinformation, in spite of the fact that the information was sourced directly from organizations like the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Earlier today, during a live broadcast, You Tuber Jeremy Hambly, whose You Tube handle is The Quartering, announced that he and several others would be moving their reducing or removing their You Tube presence in favor of Rumble.
Rumble is a much new platform, but has been promoted by many content creators as being more fair and more free. Especially when it comes to messages that may be unpopular with the mainstream.
Steven Crowder’s public statement says the move will be a historic event and remembered as the day that You Tube died.
The move will take place on March 24, 2025.
Rumble has a service that allows content creators who are broadcasting a live show to “hand off” their live audience to another creator. The schedule for the live show:
A viewer could tune in to Evita Duffy-Alonso at 9:00 a.m. and without ever having to click on anything, could continue to view uninterrupted until the end of Viva Frei’s show, which starts at 4:00 p.m. and often runs two or more hours.
Several content creators have collaborated on projects in the recent past, but this is the largest effort of this type that I’m aware of.
Mainstream media has been losing viewers consistently for several years. This marathon of content is the latest step towards taking up some of the slack left by mainstream media in what is and has been a nearly constant, 24-hour, news cycle.
For myself, I think this is good for reporting, good for the spread of information and good for the American people. Of these shows, I have spent the most time watching Tim Pool and Steven Crowder and both frequently show the source information they use to get the information they share and comment on, often drawing upon mainstream sources, but show inconsistencies or errors in the mainstream reporting.
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