Unloading Podcast 108 - Part 1
Added 2024-02-08 04:56:58 +0000 UTCThis week on the C&Rsenal Unloading Podcast:
Show of Shows,
Swamp,
Pyrrhic victories,
New look?
Sven's new groove.
All that and more on this particular production that you're listening to.
Comments
Oh God I've been listening to these from the beginning when I drive to work or take other long trips in my car, I'm almost caught up....π
Riley W. Andersen
2024-04-23 05:54:34 +0000 UTCKids! Donβt quit balistol, stay in art school!
Elling Polden
2024-02-27 12:32:47 +0000 UTCSven was a great guest to hear on the podcast! Very interesting to hear what he does as well. Regards to your question, I stick around because you guys (and Battlefield 1) got me into these sorts of firearms, leading me to watch more of the stuff you explore and breakdown. It also led me to PhoenixPhart as well! But also, I genuinely respect what you guys are doing and love the work enough to want to support. And your efforts to vocalize how much C&Rsenal depends on community funds was what mainly drove me to consider becoming a Patron in the first place. It also helps that you guys have personalities that I love way, way more than most other Internet personalities. The devotion to the mission and also lack of ego is what causes me to appreciate you guys as well. It also helps that I share the sense of humor that you two show on camera (and off Primers). And to your point about not being able to gain more new supporters than they are dropping off, I do have one experience to share: Some of the folks in a discord I'm in are titillated by firearms in general (video games, movies, etc), but when I tried to share the 1911 Primer in naive glee, they looked at the video length and immediately-almost comically-scoffed at it and kept blowing it off entirely, repeatedly commenting "Dude, it's an hour video". Really bummed out, honestly. Philistines.
Galli Pozzi
2024-02-13 08:02:44 +0000 UTCIf you visit Frank Lloyd Wrightβs home and studio in WI; the guides will tell you that they are quite certain he would have been very happy to see his home collapse and fall into the ravine after he was gone. Nothing seems to be built for long term integrity.
Troy Janda
2024-02-12 18:27:24 +0000 UTCFrank Lloyd Wright isn't merely a bad architect. He's not an architect at all. He's a sculptor that worked in houses instead of clay or bronze.
Mark Becht
2024-02-08 17:29:31 +0000 UTCThank you guys. I love the videos. Sven is great
Brock Gouett
2024-02-08 15:15:38 +0000 UTCThanks for all the hard work you folks do. I've been supporting on Patreon since 2016 and I've stuck around so long because C&Rsenal is the perfect mix of being long-format, subject-focused, and in-depth on the history aspect. As an MA in a historical track and a gun nut that's just right up my alley. However, when it comes to financing, I think part of the equasion is that a lot of those specific aspects I enjoy about C&Rsenal are just anathema to the current slant in social media land. The foci seem to be either short-format stuff or (IRL)live-streaming. The first drives down people's attention spans and need for depth in general. I've talked to professors who have literally seen Gen Z have much greater difficulties the attention arc of a 45+45 minute lecture because it is too much for too long compared to what they have been fed on the day-to-day. Therefore, long form is just harder to put out there. The other end is the impulsive nature of livestreaming, where people rely much more on trawling in large amounts of quick donations driven by the parasocial "engagement" and sense of community from doing something you've seen another viewer do at that very moment. This goes so far that I've seen people complain when a creator doesn't allow for stream donations, even when they're told that the platforms' take from that is much bigger than when they support through patreon. Mostly people have already slotted their details into the platform and just want to be able to have that convenience and to act on the spur of the moment to feel like they're part of a spike of activitiy. That also means that a lot of advertising and sponsorship is much more up-front and agressive on these platforms. Comparartively, the way C&Rsenal wants to monetize is almost "too kind" but also "too invested" for what people expect in the market and therefore probably doesn't get picked up enough for what leaves Patreon to be replaced in the long term. Ironically, I think that the professionalism that makes C&Rsenal so good is precisely what makes it so difficult to fit in the current monetization strategies to which the platforms and subsequently the viewers have shifted. It'd probably be worth it to chat with Ian and Henry, or maybe also people like Drach or Bernard (MHV) or Chris (MAH) to get their take on it since they're roughly in the same niche and same size (Ian excepting, obviously). As for the famous early architects of the 20th century: those guys were mostly just philosophers with a drawing table. The practical engineering of the details kinda took second place to trying to make architecture a conduit for their ideas about how to make people happier, better or more modern. Whether those ideas were correct was also just kind of a dice roll in most cases.
Benjamin de Groot
2024-02-08 11:11:51 +0000 UTC
