The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex PendragonMy feed for #MarvelsPullList and #ThisWeekInMarvel each have been dark since last year, but both just lit up with a podcast trailer. It was read by a male announcer voice I wasn't 100% sure wasn't an AI. It also clearly wasn't any other previous hosts I listened to for the last ten years.
Some of them started off as ads, too. #ThisWeekInMarvel was always walking about comics for the express purpose of getting you to go buy this week's comics. Since I already wanted to do that, I enjoyed getting the chance to listen to people talk about them.
Then Disney bought Marvel. Now, ThisWeekInMarvel was about Marvel stuff... Movies, too! Oh, and games, And other podcasts, and the new product tied into a fitness program and and and...
The spun the Comic talk off to a new podcast. (#MarvelsPullList) Then they cancelled that one. TWIM became even less like friends talking about the stuff I wanted to hear and more about pushing the latest thing they were trying that wasn't selling. It began to sound like an infomercial. I haven't gotten a new episode since last year (except one odd, special-release of an old interview) and I haven't gone looking for it.
It's kinda depressing for me, because when I started listening, they had a 'Talk back to us through a Twitter Hashtag!' back when that wasn't horrible. I created a Twitter account to do that, and from reading that hashtag I met some of my best friends, most of whom are part of #DrunkPete and #HorizonLabs, but few have moved to Mastodon.
Marvel 🗯️
