Less Can Be More

Last week, Progressives Chat’s cathyx, who has expressed disappointment in the recent substitute-hosting on The Jimmy Dore Show, perhaps in part because there is no substitute for the real thing, wrote the following comment:

“[Jimmy Dore] not being there is now going beyond not being there only when he's on vacation.… Is he getting tired of doing his [YouTube] show?”  

I am not certain what explains it.

I have titled this week’s blog topic, “Less Can Be More,” because, while cathyx’s comment’s question may be accurate [for a behind-the-scenes Jimmy Dore], it still amounts to the same thing with me. I, too, am disappointed.  

I do have concern.

I have considered whether he is needing more breaks.

I wonder if the frequency of regularly scheduled livestreams may have become too much. I consider how Dore is post-jabs. I really do not know.

Something that dawns on me is that “Less Can Be More” can be applied to not only The Jimmy Dore Show but also the likes of Due Dissidence and Revolutionary Blackout and, frankly, any source.

Can it be that some of these channels should pull back a little with their weekly schedules?

This may depend on who and what. That not every channel or show, and not every person who heads a channel or show, has the same needs.

This is worth consideration.

A livestream which runs more than two hours, and is three days per week, involves not just six-plus hours live; there is also the preparation ahead of a scheduled livestream.  

Some of the content creators depend solely on their income from their YouTube channels.

A couple years ago, with my interest in the Nintendo video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there were content creators who live-streamed by game-playing it on and after it released March 20, 2020. They generated many views on YouTube and/or Twitch. Some reached partnerships on Twitch. The New Horizons game eventually burned out. Some content creators moved on to other titles. Some burned out from the game. Some left Twitch due to its policy change, in the last year or so, which reduced gaming-content creators’s earnings from their livestreams. Yes, there were those who did not solely generate income as content creators. No matter…many stopped.

I sense it is much harder now to generate income from YouTube if you are not a high-tiered content creator. (Algorithm.) Some of these politically-related content creators are scheduled at least three days per week because, as they figure, it is necessary.

For any content creator, no matter a channel’s interest, who can afford to livestream no more than two days per week…doing that may be wise. It may even make the channel and/or show better.

Less can be more.