The unfortunate part is there is always going to be an artificial ceiling on something like National Hyphen because, best case scenario it gets really popular, they will start taking it off search and banning it from every content promotion service. There's no length they won't go to if you get successful, even if you play it completely straight.I finally got around to listening to the latest Strike and Mike and yeah, it’s clear that at least Striker pays attention to this thread or people repost what we say on BANG or Telegram to him. He ranted about comments of self-ghettoization that we’ve talked about many times here.
But it’s true! Realistically, how much actual growth has TRS seen since 2018? How many people even know TRS exists these days outside of the paypigs who still d’nate? How would people even know TRS exists? Unz isn’t that big of a site and the occasional Hyphen articles that go viral still only get thousands of views. In a world with billions of internet users, that’s very small outreach. Striker’s comment was that everywhere is a ghetto and that’s simply not true. TRS has been stagnant or declining since 2018-2019 and you know it too.
In the case of Unz I think it's just detailed and autistic enough to stay off mainstream radar despite being pretty popular, but if you're trying to appeal to normies that's what they're scared of.
TRS really should be more popular though considering it's more of a morning zoo style news/comedy show. As dumb as it sounds I really do think clips would help a lot, considering how much of it is timely and headline-relevant. Plus a lot of the comedy is lost when it's just audio.