Can someone explain the alleged popularity of the 'Call Her Daddy' gal Alex Cooper?
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Anonymous
You should really get in contact with SiriusXM to let them know they have invested in someone who has not many real fans and that the podcast charts are fake. It sounds like you have a lot of information. |
Anonymous
It wasn't a book. She put out a documentary. Sorry to interrupt your conspiracy theories and woman hating with factual details. Carry on. |
Anonymous
I've seen the headlines about Alex's success and deals, but have never listened. I was surprised this week to see excerpts from her interview with Charlize Theron, by all accounts an A-list actor, who was extremely candid/vulnerable about her personal life/relationships in her interview with Alex. I don't believe Charlize would ever share such detailed info with an MSM outlet. I have read that podcasts offer an intimacy that other mediums don't, and it seems like Alex has really tapped into/leveraged that. Personally, I enjoy the intimacy of some podcasts (99% invisible, StoryCorps) but others make me uncomfortable (Armchair Expert, Call Her Daddy). Might be generational. |
Anonymous
I thought Charlize Theron, a 50-year-old washed up A-list actress old enough to be a grandmother, detailing one night stands and vibrator use was sad and gross for all involved. That’s night feminism or empowering, it’s low. |
Anonymous
not* feminism or empowering, it’s low and degrading |
Anonymous
A distinction without a difference. Memoir or video documentary, whatever the case, she needed a crisis and hook. So she created one. Otherwise her life story is, what, a ruthless conniving silver spoon pretty girl who’s been handed everything in life? |
Anonymous
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If a tool like Rogan can create the career he did, I'm fine with her.
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Anonymous
You’re so 2000 late. It’s a brave new world and you don’t understand it. Alex is the brains, the product and the success story Nice anti-Semitic post, do they also control the weather around her? |
Anonymous
Silver spoon? |
Anonymous
| She’s a private school lifer. Her prep school costs $50,000 a year. |
Anonymous
She also claimed to have been viciously bullied in high school. Riiiiight. |
Anonymous
All models/celebrities claim two things: they were bullied in high school and they love to eat pizza. |
Anonymous
well you are bullying her right now riiiiiiight? |
Anonymous
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So interesting… I was wondering the same thing, I’m late 40s so not in Alex’s target audience, but I couldn’t quite understand her popularity and I stumbled on a podcast called “What’s the Snark” where they dedicated 90 minutes to covering her and it answered all my questions LOL.
Overall, their conclusion was she’s not particularly talented in terms of journalism or interviewing, and she’s not particularly funny or a magnetic personality, but she has a great business sense and she knows her strengths and she and her team have leveraged that. Personally, I’m rooting for her since she did the Kamala Harris interview given that there’s so many bro male podcasts that have such a following. We need some women with a following so I’m all for it. But what’s the snark podcast Basically explained that she started the original who’s your daddy with her very talented friend and cohost Sofia Franklin. They did have writers on their podcast, and Sofia was basically the brains behind it, but Alex did the editing. At some point, they had a falling out and Alex succeeded in totally shutting her out, not sure how, went behind her back and signed a bigger deal with barstool or something like that. Didn’t sound great. Makes Alex sound shady. Sofia has her own podcast and has over 600,000 followers so didn’t go into obscurity but obviously didn’t make out nearly as well as Alex. Once Alex lost her cohost, she has gotten less deep into sharing her personal life and now does more of the high profile celebrity interviews. Like others I feel like she does OK with them, but she’s not spectacular. She did marry Matt Kaplan and I find it weird that someone upthread gldoibted him, they actually do seem happy and in love, but it’s early days. I think they’ve been together five years so we’ll see. But he knows his stuff and was a very successful TV producer, so not surprised that he has helped her grow her brand. They seem smart in realizing that she’s getting older, will eventually be less relatable and appealing to a younger audience so they have signed a bunch of younger influencers like Alix Earl, etc. and seems like Alex is OK to leave then to to the raunchy talk and things which I think is smart. Time will tell whether they have wax is anything more than hot young influencers, but we’ll see. What’s the snark podcast also criticized her unwell brand. Basically unwell was a term coined by Sofia and the brand doesn’t seem to have any purpose or point behind it. She launched some sort of energy drink for women which, fine OK, if people fall for that. But otherwise there doesn’t seem to be a real purpose to it so we’ll be interesting to see if it has legs. I tried to watch her documentary, but made it about half hour room before I was bored to tears. I think they tried to give her some sort of complicated story by saying she was bullied as a teen, but I wasn’t falling for it and I don’t really think she’s experienced other hardships, though I feel bad that she’s been sexually harassed by a coach. I’m just not buying the oh I was so bullied and an outcast. She’s always been pretty and athletic. Anyway, I wish her the best, but will be interested to see how she fares over the next decade. I read her ratings for the podcast have fallen a bit. But like I said, smart for her to be branching out to younger influencers and making that part of her business. |
Anonymous
Her husband is much older than her, already once divorced, and was mentored by a predator sex pest media executive. As for why people question his motives and their chemistry, it’s because she shares candid video clips on social media and they’re on a reality show thing on Hulu. When fans note how weird they are together and how controlling he is, she deletes the clips. |