Dude, Where's My Brain?
On Logan Paul, young male influencers & the voters who love them.
I was listening to NPR in my car the other morning — feeling slightly guilty since the last time I gave was in 2009 and that was solely for the travel mug — when a segment came on about young male “influencers” supporting Trump.
These young plucky influencers are using their platforms to help Trump reach young male voters. Younger male voters lean Trump much more than younger female voters, who have brains.
One major fan is Logan Paul who hosts the “Impaulsive” podcast. (Whoever came up with that name isn’t getting paid enough. Gold.) Logan is an influencer, YouTube star and a professional wrestler worth millions of dollars. I knew I should’ve been an influencer. I CAN INFLUENCE.
(Logan’s a loathsome human being. Don’t look him up. You’ll weep for the future.)
Trump and JD Vance enjoy appearing on these influencers’ broadcasts because they’re never asked anything substantial. They’re more likely to be asked about the UFC. (Logan asked Trump if he’d ever been in a fist fight and Trump said, probably not. Let’s clarify that. He ABSOLUTELY has never been in a fist fight.
When these boys/men/boymen are not faithfully tuning into podcasts, you can find them at Project 2025 book clubs, conspiracy wine tastings, or sprucing up their garage apartment for that girl who’s never coming over.
Then there’s streamer Adin Ross who also interviewed Trump. He’s a white supremacist who tosses around hateful slurs and people love him for it. Same with Adin. (OMG! LOL!)
The Trump campaign has reached out to these influencers to help “humanize” Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Are you kidding me? Trying to humanize Vance would be like trying to humanize someone who’s been cryogenically frozen.
Six of the seven top podcasts have a serious majority-male audience. But Tucker Carlson only has 65% male listeners. Meaning 35% female. Who ARE these women? Are they being forced to listen to him? Do they hate their lives? Or do they just need background noise while they cross-stitch another Mom Off Duty! coaster?
Not that Tucker is one of the young influencers by any stretch of the imagination (I believe he’s my age) but I had to look up his podcast anyway because I hadn’t seen him in so long and, yuck.
I’m not sure what look he’s trying to go for here outside of “sad man with sadder haircut” but whatever it is, it’s definitely not working. What’s with the faux-rugged vest over the preppy checkered shirt? And what is he looking at so wistfully? His next victim? The dude looks like a serial killer, albeit a conflicted serial killer, who sometimes feels bad about his life choices but will definitely kill again.
He’s probably looking at Logan Paul.