Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy sells shock over substance, and its dating advice harms young women.
Reach without responsibilityFive million weekly listeners, 76% of them women under 35, hearing first-date advice presented as liberation.
Shock value replaces interview skillThe Hannah Montana reunion showed Cooper with nothing to fall back on once the crass questions were gone.
The incentive is money, not adviceBoth speakers agree outrageous clips farm attention, and being responsible simply does not pay.
Executive SummaryAI
A streamer reacts to Sydney's video on Alex Cooper, opening with a Call Her Daddy clip telling single women to kiss or sleep with someone on the first date, and noting Cooper is paid $60 million to say it.
Sydney cites political reporter Elena Moore of NPR: Call Her Daddy is the most listened to podcast by women, five million weekly listeners, 70% women, 76% of them under the age of 35.
The Miley Cyrus 20th anniversary Hannah Montana reunion is held up as proof of poor interviewing, with the Disney Legend parking exchange and Miley noting Cooper did not know the lyrics to her own favourite Hannah Montana song.
The podcast's history is laid out: started in 2018 as a duo with roommate Sophia Franklin, picked up by Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports, then a messy contract split that Franklin told Rolling Stone left her stabbed in the back.
Sydney and the streamer close on the oxytocin argument against promoted promiscuity, Cooper's Tinder sponsorship, and the wish that someone with better ideas replaces her.
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“That's how much this woman gets paid to tell single women to be degenerate.”
— Sydney
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“Do not take life advice from these people.”
— Sydney
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“Alex Cooper is about as deep as a gym floor shower and just as disgusting”