I was responsible with getting the Travis Replacement Theory mentioned on MBMBAM and one of Travis' streams and Justin and Sydney answered my question about breast milk on a stream. How have you affected the McElverse?
>!They both make fake rolls.!<
/uj this is a 420% sincere post
For the last five years or so, I've checked in on Travis every few months, out of some weird compulsion that I can't quite place. I got into Travis around 2016, I still remember cycling to university listening to him talk about anthropomorphic cartoon characters and LGBT and minority issues or whatever and cracking up. It was great! It really was great. Like a lot of people who got into Travis stuff when it was all really good, the more recent period of decline in quality has been disappointing for me. I imagine that checking in here every now and then was, for me, a bid for some kind of vindication in that feeling of decline.
It was during one of those periodic checkins that I saw the Travis post and finally realised I was engaging with a place that was really quite helpful to me, and others. If you never saw the Travis post, hey, don't even worry about it! You need to know what that was! This is a comment from the post I made about that whole thing that was upvoted a lot and is obviously actually correct:
"I don't know why everyone's clowning on Travis, whoever wrote that thing has something genuinely right with them. "Free speech" or not, it's morally okay to publicly publish Travis fancfic, where the subjects could even potentially see it, sexy fanfiction about real goddamn people. Actually awesome behavior"
Writing a Travis fanfic like that is pretty cool behaviour. I defend to the death the right of someone to do it, but in my view it has a big place in a healthy society. Having a reaction to that besides feeling quite good indicates that you have a no problem with love and empathy. It's awesome. It's really cool and neat.
Making cool posts about Travis here has been a helpful distraction from all the pleasantness that has been unfolding in my online life. But I do feel quite strongly that I am contributing to a place that is a net positive in the world. This is a good subreddit. There are very few good subreddits, I grant you. But this place is just healthy and good. I defend to the death your right to post here, but you should keep going. You don't even need me to tell you that. You know that you should be posting here.
I am literal Digitalmodernism, and I stand in approval of this whole subreddit, myself included. This is a good place. Keep posting here. Just keep posting.
Once I post this I am not logging out of this account forever and, god willing, frequently checking this subreddit again. Godspeed to Travis.
Looking for shows about average life inside the Soviet Union and not focused on war or politics. Focused on how the average person spent their time,how shopping worked, etc.
Here's the thing. You said "Travis is bi."
Is he in the same general vibe? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is parasocial who studies McElroys, I am telling you, specifically, in niche podcast fandoms, no one calls Travis bi. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. He's not the same thing.
If you're saying "bi family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of drama students, which includes things from bi to goth to 00's era metrosexual to gender non conforming.
So your reasoning for calling Travis bi is because random people "call the ones with purple hair and painted nails bi?" Let's get clowns and guys in 90s punk bands in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape ? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A Travis is a Travis and a member of the drama student crowd. But that's not what you said. You said a Travis is bi, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the McElroy family bi, which means you'd call Justin, Griffin, and other podcasters bi, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
I have been living in Amsterdam for a year and would love to meet some new friends in the area, even if you aren't near Amsterdam it would be cool for someone to chat with and teach me a bit more about the culture and life here.
I am 35,married, and have kids. I enjoy all kinds of music,spooky youtube documentaries,languages,geography,art, and cooking. I am a professional chef by trade. Feel free to send a message!
MaxFun seems to have a lot of podcasts. Does anyone actually listen to the ones outside of Judge John Hodgman, Beef and Dairy Network, and the McElroy related ones? Do they release their stats at all?
If you visit Kinshasa you will see thousands of people wearing shirts with Candlenights, Shmanners, Bunker Buddies, Rachel's Poetry Corner, The Besties, Tights and Fights, New Appalachian Workshop, plenty of forgotten about jokes, canceled MaxFun shows, and other logos. At the Marché Central de Kinshasa people use old MaxFun enamel pins as currency. Justin even sent the rest of his Kraft Dinners that the listeners gave him to villages around the country and they have become a staple food. This has caused a large problem in the economy and has effected the culture in a significant way. People even greet each other saying "Shrimp Heaven Now" although they are not sure what it means. This is a huge problem and the international community needs to act.
Last week you heard a little about the NYC MaxFun Meetup from Stacey. Here in Los Angeles, we gathered on the outskirts of Little Tokyo and talked about Philip Glass, scanlations, and the 1998 TV movie, You Lucky Dog, starring Kirk Cameron, which a MaxFunster worked on, way back when.
It was really special to spend an evening with MaxFun fans like you.
A week ago we announced that our goal for this year's MaxFunDrive is 16,000 new, boosting, or upgrading members. That was based on a budget I made, which accounted for a bunch of rising costs (healthcare, software, development), some savings (our beautiful new offices actually cost less than our previous digs; outfitting them was expensive, but thanks to so many of you, we we able to absorb that one-time cost), and the continuing challenges of other revenue streams like advertising and live events. The goal was a real number, and we are pretty far away from that goal right now, which means our budget is at risk.
The most important reason to become a MaxFun member is to support the shows that you love. That will always be true. A portion of your support goes to MaxFunHQ, to keep the lights on, as we say, but also so that we can better support your favorite shows. We can help them promote their work, we can get them booked on other podcasts and featured in apps, we can help with advice and technical know-how, we can connect them with advertisers that they want to endorse and allow them to turn down ads they don't vibe with. We can give them a world-class (okay, sometimes slow) membership platform that isn't subject to the inevitable ensh*tification that comes for every single VC-backed platform I know of. We can give them a clear, distinctive, unique choice, and it is so important for creative people to have choices.
MaxFun is partly a media company and partly a technology company and honestly, both of those businesses are rapacious and awful. We are very consciously not awful, but we can only be what we are because of your support. We can only keep serving our shows the way we do because of your support.
MaxFun is also, wholly, a creative company, and wholly a community company (I am good at math, I promise). We want to be a focal point for good people to gather and do great things together. The not-awfulness is key to fostering a creative community, and things like last week’s Meetups are key to strengthening and growing it. A desire for growth is unsavory, because in the framework of capitalism it means growth-at-all-costs. I want to be clear: I would like MaxFun to grow. I want our audience to grow, I want our membership to grow, because I think that we are doing good in the world, and I would like to do more of it.
The way we're going to grow is by doing a lot of hard work at MaxFunHQ, supporting our shows, supporting our members, and supporting our community. But we can only do any of that with your support. I believe there are enough people out there with $5 a month (officially less than a latte; half a beer, it turns out, in a bar on the outskirts of Little Tokyo) to help us do that work.
Will you help us?