Can someone explain the alleged popularity of the 'Call Her Daddy' gal Alex Cooper?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

And the irony is Alex cut out the co-founder of the podcast and brand, Sophia, because her boyfriend became too controlling and wanted to be cut in on deals!

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Anonymous wrote:She peaked years ago and is struggling for new material.

She was recently busted lying about being victimized by her Boston U soccer coach. https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/sports/alex-coopers-sexual-harassment-claims-met-with-strong-response-from-former-bu-players/

And Sunday she was just booed at the Cubs game because her singing was so cringe. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/alex-cooper-booed-cubs-fans-171825975.html

The lesbian brigade circled their wagons to protect their own. I had a HS coach just like that and the clique of lesbians around the lesbian coach were complete mean girls to the straights. They all socialized with the coach outside of school. I’m sure having scissor parties.

But like another poster stated-if u stay in the sport long enough it’s all the trauma and weird ones that remain. I dropped it after HS.

Yeah, sure. Or a boring coddled affluent psychopathic money-hungry striver needed book material for her privileged boring life after yapping for years on podcasts about nothing, so she casually smeared a former coach to paint herself as a victim in a PR campaign. Every other college and high level high school player hates a mean former coach. Big whoop.

Yes this rich person who really needs no PR thought it would be fun to accuse a coach of something totally made up and then for her trouble face idiot trolls like you who call her a liar.

She even played the long game and told her parents about the harassment for years and also complained to the athletic director in hopes she would one day be famous and could make up this story to promote a documentary. She’s a real mastermind.

Books need hooks and crisis to sell. Her parents were just handed a new mansion in LA thanks to the proceeds. The elbowy rich pretty prep school sporty girl is such a victim. A coach was so mean to a party girl. She exaggerated and fabricated victimhood like shameless psychopath. Same thing Markle and Harry did.

It wasn't a book. She put out a documentary. Sorry to interrupt your conspiracy theories and woman hating with factual details. Carry on.

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?

She also claimed to have been viciously bullied in high school. Riiiiight.

All models/celebrities claim two things: they were bullied in high school and they love to eat pizza.

+1. The sociopathic cutthroat mean girls are suddenly the biggest victims and underdogs. Up is down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a tool like Rogan can create the career he did, I'm fine with her.

and my gawd, how people here defend that idiot. He's the one who kept talking over the covid expert because he was certain that hot air from his sauna would kill covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

They haven’t been married very long and she’s allegedly a nympho sex fiend but her husband drops random remarks that their sex life is terrible. That doesn’t suggest anything good about their marriage.

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Sofia Franklin Asked barstool for a raise from $75K to $1M.

Alex didn’t.

Sofia was fired by barstool.

[Anonymous]

She's pretty?

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Anonymous wrote:She peaked years ago and is struggling for new material.

She was recently busted lying about being victimized by her Boston U soccer coach. https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/sports/alex-coopers-sexual-harassment-claims-met-with-strong-response-from-former-bu-players/

And Sunday she was just booed at the Cubs game because her singing was so cringe. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/alex-cooper-booed-cubs-fans-171825975.html

The lesbian brigade circled their wagons to protect their own. I had a HS coach just like that and the clique of lesbians around the lesbian coach were complete mean girls to the straights. They all socialized with the coach outside of school. I’m sure having scissor parties.

But like another poster stated-if u stay in the sport long enough it’s all the trauma and weird ones that remain. I dropped it after HS.

Yeah, sure. Or a boring coddled affluent psychopathic money-hungry striver needed book material for her privileged boring life after yapping for years on podcasts about nothing, so she casually smeared a former coach to paint herself as a victim in a PR campaign. Every other college and high level high school player hates a mean former coach. Big whoop.

Yes this rich person who really needs no PR thought it would be fun to accuse a coach of something totally made up and then for her trouble face idiot trolls like you who call her a liar.

She even played the long game and told her parents about the harassment for years and also complained to the athletic director in hopes she would one day be famous and could make up this story to promote a documentary. She’s a real mastermind.

Books need hooks and crisis to sell. Her parents were just handed a new mansion in LA thanks to the proceeds. The elbowy rich pretty prep school sporty girl is such a victim. A coach was so mean to a party girl. She exaggerated and fabricated victimhood like shameless psychopath. Same thing Markle and Harry did.

It wasn't a book. She put out a documentary. Sorry to interrupt your conspiracy theories and woman hating with factual details. Carry on.

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?

She also claimed to have been viciously bullied in high school. Riiiiight.

All models/celebrities claim two things: they were bullied in high school and they love to eat pizza.

+1000

And post pictures of themselves on Instagram with a French fry in their mouth. Right before they spit it out after thr picture is taken.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I don’t know about the deleted clips because I don’t follow her that closely, but I just looked up their ages, Alex will be turning 31 in a couple of weeks, and Matt just turned 41. So they are less than 11 years apart. We while age gaps give me the creeps, that one is not as crazy as many in Hollywood.

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Anonymous wrote:If a tool like Rogan can create the career he did, I'm fine with her.

Very true. I’m not a fan of either of them, but we just don’t have these kind of misgivings about male podcasters or influencers and I can’t imagine Rogan has more talent, qualifications or better motives.

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She’s the next Terry Gross.

/s

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Anonymous wrote:She peaked years ago and is struggling for new material.

She was recently busted lying about being victimized by her Boston U soccer coach. https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/sports/alex-coopers-sexual-harassment-claims-met-with-strong-response-from-former-bu-players/

And Sunday she was just booed at the Cubs game because her singing was so cringe. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/alex-cooper-booed-cubs-fans-171825975.html

The lesbian brigade circled their wagons to protect their own. I had a HS coach just like that and the clique of lesbians around the lesbian coach were complete mean girls to the straights. They all socialized with the coach outside of school. I’m sure having scissor parties.

But like another poster stated-if u stay in the sport long enough it’s all the trauma and weird ones that remain. I dropped it after HS.

Yeah, sure. Or a boring coddled affluent psychopathic money-hungry striver needed book material for her privileged boring life after yapping for years on podcasts about nothing, so she casually smeared a former coach to paint herself as a victim in a PR campaign. Every other college and high level high school player hates a mean former coach. Big whoop.

Yes this rich person who really needs no PR thought it would be fun to accuse a coach of something totally made up and then for her trouble face idiot trolls like you who call her a liar.

She even played the long game and told her parents about the harassment for years and also complained to the athletic director in hopes she would one day be famous and could make up this story to promote a documentary. She’s a real mastermind.

Books need hooks and crisis to sell. Her parents were just handed a new mansion in LA thanks to the proceeds. The elbowy rich pretty prep school sporty girl is such a victim. A coach was so mean to a party girl. She exaggerated and fabricated victimhood like shameless psychopath. Same thing Markle and Harry did.

It wasn't a book. She put out a documentary. Sorry to interrupt your conspiracy theories and woman hating with factual details. Carry on.

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?

The point is you clearly have no idea what you're talking about yet spout drivel.

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Anonymous wrote:We have SiriusXM radio in all of our cars. There's this new station curated by 31yo podcaster Alex Cooper, who I've heard of but never listened to. It's a low number pop music channel (#3), so you can't help but scroll past it. We left it on on a road trip to the beach, as it's basically just road trip pop songs, and she chimes in randomly between songs. So she is a painfully unfunny and obnoxious former college soccer player and just forces in celeb name-dropping and serial vulgarity (fu**, sh**, di**) into mindless vocal fry babble. She encourages listeners to tune into her second SiriusXM station to hear her long-form podcasts and interviews. From what I gather, she got famous being a vulgar unapologetic slut detailing her escapades in graphic detail with a sidekick, then she cut out the sidekick so she could keep all $60 million from Spotify. Then SiriusXM just paid her $125 million dollars. How is in the world is such "content" in any way worth this much money?

‘Call Her Daddy’ Host Alex Cooper Inks Multiyear Deal With SiriusXM Worth up to $125 Million for Exclusive Content
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/alex-cooper-deal-siriusxm-call-her-daddy-exclusive-content-1236112140/

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.

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 not* feminism or empowering, it’s low.

not* feminism or empowering, it’s low and degrading

It probably is generational. It's good you recognize this.

This whole thread is dripping with misogyny. Women who talk about sex are low and degrading? Is it all women or just grannies who are 50+?

These women don't have to play by anyone's rules of how women are supposed to act or what they're supposed to say. And it seems to be working out for them. You don't like it, don't listen.

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Anonymous wrote:Sofia Franklin Asked barstool for a raise from $75K to $1M.

Alex didn’t.

Sofia was fired by barstool.

I don’t think it’s a simple as that. Sofia and Alex tried to renegotiate together, because they were making $1M combined when the show was earning $8M. Typically, the rev share on a podcast is that the hosts make 80%, so they tried to negotiate to $2M (1 million each), which is 25% of revenue.

Then Alex went behind Sofia’s back and entered into separate negotiations with Barstool that excluded Sofia.

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She’s disgusting and painfully unfunny.

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Anonymous wrote:She peaked years ago and is struggling for new material.

She was recently busted lying about being victimized by her Boston U soccer coach. https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/sports/alex-coopers-sexual-harassment-claims-met-with-strong-response-from-former-bu-players/

And Sunday she was just booed at the Cubs game because her singing was so cringe. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/alex-cooper-booed-cubs-fans-171825975.html

The lesbian brigade circled their wagons to protect their own. I had a HS coach just like that and the clique of lesbians around the lesbian coach were complete mean girls to the straights. They all socialized with the coach outside of school. I’m sure having scissor parties.

But like another poster stated-if u stay in the sport long enough it’s all the trauma and weird ones that remain. I dropped it after HS.

Yeah, sure. Or a boring coddled affluent psychopathic money-hungry striver needed book material for her privileged boring life after yapping for years on podcasts about nothing, so she casually smeared a former coach to paint herself as a victim in a PR campaign. Every other college and high level high school player hates a mean former coach. Big whoop.

Yes this rich person who really needs no PR thought it would be fun to accuse a coach of something totally made up and then for her trouble face idiot trolls like you who call her a liar.

She even played the long game and told her parents about the harassment for years and also complained to the athletic director in hopes she would one day be famous and could make up this story to promote a documentary. She’s a real mastermind.

Books need hooks and crisis to sell. Her parents were just handed a new mansion in LA thanks to the proceeds. The elbowy rich pretty prep school sporty girl is such a victim. A coach was so mean to a party girl. She exaggerated and fabricated victimhood like shameless psychopath. Same thing Markle and Harry did.

It wasn't a book. She put out a documentary. Sorry to interrupt your conspiracy theories and woman hating with factual details. Carry on.

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?

She also claimed to have been viciously bullied in high school. Riiiiight.

All models/celebrities claim two things: they were bullied in high school and they love to eat pizza.

Or they were/are nerds.