> It got a tiny minority of a certain insignificant type
I guess how one perceived the reaction to that transaction comes down to one's own biases.
If you wish to discount some people's problem with paying a misinformation-peddler hundreds of millions of dollars while, as per TFA, genuinely creative people are paid nothing because 'it's too hard to handle the transactions' - then that gives us a little more insight into you.
> Step out into the real world and the number one podcast is, by definition, well received.
Number one in the USA, you mean, right?
Podcasts are a niche medium, with extremely poorly reported listening figures, but so far I can tell this guy has an average of 11 million listeners.
That's less than 4% of the USA (around 0.1% of the real world).
I get that anger and controversy are highly saleable products - crime content makes up a surprising amount of the podcast leaderboard.
However, in a country where 230 million people believe angels are real, it shouldn't be surprising, nor held up as an arbiter of quality or sanity, that 11 million people think this guy is credible / worth $200m a year.
