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- 11 de Sep, 2014
I thought New Pill was Sam's account as well but I am not the biggest Sam Hyde viewer. I find Sam's early stuff hilarious and views on comedy much needed in bland and sanitized modern comedy but I can see his hubris limiting his potential and making him very difficult to work with.Late to the party but I was surprised to learn The New Pill wasn't Sam's official clip channel. I watched like two or three of his vids and just assumed from the editing style it was Sam's and didn't think too much about it. He's a total dunce for passing on Sam's offer.
On Sam himself I gotta agree with Null. I subbed to Hyde's Gumroad a while ago and dropped my subscription after just a month or two. On the rare occasions I'll tune into a podcast or a stream, I'd like it to be something I can put on and listen to in the background while I'm doing something else. I found his unedited vids just tedious as hell to sit through - most of his guests weren't interesting and his format's all over the fucking place. He's trying to wear way too many hats at once and it shows. Wading through an hour and a half of rambling to get maybe five to ten minutes of value isn't my idea of a good time. It feels too much like sitting quietly at a bar table with a bunch of guys who've known each other for years and have their own in-jokes and shit (which to be fair to Hyde, most "dudes talking about whatever"-style podcasts tend to be, which is why I don't really like podcasts in the first place).
From what I could tell from a cursory glance over New Pill's clipshows and comment section, seems to me a lot of Hydeheads are in the same boat as Jordan "Wash your penis, clean your room" Peterson's fans; they're looking for some kind of father figure to help them sort their shit out. But instead of an internet daddy, Sam's appeal is that he's the cool, eternally disinterested older brother that shares his weed and rants about how fucking stupid women are.