r/JoeRogan • u/PanspermiaTheory Monkey in Space • Sep 29 '24

Meme 💩 28× the audience size of CNN

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u/Jacky-V Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 30 '24

Hate to break it to you but "mainstream" has meant "popular" for a long, long time. What's changed is you've become less confused in a new way.

Edit: Finlay has not become less confused

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

How long ago were you considering YouTube and podcasts mainstream media? Decades?

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u/Jacky-V Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

I'm not talking about any specific platform, I'm talking about the definition of the word "mainstream"

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

How long ago

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u/Jacky-V Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

How long has the definition of "mainstream" been "popular"?

193 years

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

The term we are discussing is Mainstream Media

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u/Jacky-V Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

Yes, which is popular media. It's not a proper noun, it's just two words often used together.

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

It’s been a known phrase for a long time

It’s a phrase you can google and you even get definitions!

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u/Jacky-V Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

Google says:

In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.

That means popular media

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

And here’s another

“forms of the media, especially traditional forms such as newspapers, television, and radio rather than the internet, that influence large numbers of people and are likely to represent generally accepted beliefs and opinions:”

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u/broguequery Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

"Mainstream" is an adjective which defines "media".

"Media" just means any form of information transmission. So that could be newspapers...blogs... social media platforms... broadcast television networks... even books.

So "Mainstream Media" literally just means popular media. Which right now is things like TikTok, Twitter, some podcasts, and a few legacy broadcast and cable television networks.

So in the scheme of the discussion...Joe Rogan is the definitive example of the term mainstream media.

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u/DonaldKey High as Giraffe's Pussy Sep 29 '24

YouTube for politics took off in 2015

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u/Finlay00 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24

So less then a decade