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I could be absolutely wrong, and I’m not the most educated or informed viewer in regards to all the lore that goes on with the show. But I’ve been thinking, the strange relationship between Dedrick & Tony is off putting.

My theory is that Dedrick could be Tony’s dealer quite possibly. Could Dedrick be a dealer/manufacturer, and could he be the connection for certain Austin comics looking to score on a substance? Might Tony be receiving the goods from him, and that’s why Dedrick is in the spot he’s in? If Dedrick is not Tony’s dealer, I personally theorize that somebody Dedrick knows well is Tony’s trusted dealer, or Dedrick works as a middleman and that’s why he’s kept around. I don’t know much about the thing that happened in Japan with the guy, but it was drug related, right?

A weaker theory I have is that Dedrick is kept in the spot he’s in because of all the engagements and publicity it’s attracting on different platforms. But I think this theory could be disproven to a large extent since they haven’t capitalized on all the hate the guys getting on the show aside from the Adam Ray set. I’ve have also seen a lot of comments that people are tuning out during his set which would lower engagement on the actual videos which may or may not affect their YouTube revenue.

There would have to be some kind of motive for Tony. There is also the twink connection theory but we will never truly know unless the closet is swung wide open one day.

I hear the name pop up in comments sporadically. I vaguely know that the guy is a pop culture streamer. I see in the comments that Tony doesn’t like him or they don’t like each other maybe, or something like that. Fill me in here.

I see that you can’t just use audio tags for certain sound effects like crying or laughing for example without also using text. Sometimes I only need a character laughing or crying or making some kind of sound, so I end up writing something with it, and taking what I can and splicing it so I have only the sound effect.

Is there a better workaround to this. I see there is the sound effects option but I don’t think you can use specific character voices for that.

I’ve been using the platform for around a year now for non commercial personal creative projects. It’s been a great tool but recently I can’t do instant voice clones without speaking a phrase into the microphone. I thought this was just for the professional voice clone feature, but no, it’s instant voice clone as well. For it to be instant voice clone also defeats the purpose of me being able to use eleven labs.

If I’m using a voice that sounds like a notable person but is there anyway to bypass authentication? Otherwise I’ll have to look at alternatives. The censoring is crazy to me. I could better understand the barrier in terms of a voice being used for commercial purposes, but personal non monetized creative projects shouldn’t have to deal with this. Especially for a paid service. I need all the help and insight I can get here. Thanks.