incentives

clarifying for myself why some platforms are bad.

I was looking at a video podcast that originally started being about personal finance. And I was brought to them because they had an interesting interview later on with a psychologist talking about gaming.

Then I noticed they had Matt Walsh (the awful hate-pundit, not the comedian) as a guest. And there were people in the comments saying, “I really wish this podcast would go back to what it was originally about.”

But that won’t happen, because the more this podcast brings in guests that get people riled up, the more views they have. They have no incentive to go back to what they originally focused on (personal finance) because the views won’t be there.

People just do what systems encourage them to do (for the most part). They’ll go towards having more divisive guests on because it’s “successful” in the YouTube world.

Just a long way of saying my new Blood on the Clocktower gaming streams are going to have George Santos on them from now on.