I'm out of charitability for the crew, they should be ashamed of themselves
I think the most recent episode has solidified for me that this is and always has been a bullying podcast.
More specifically, a platform for sad, miserable people who WISH they could have been the bully in high school to come together and inflict their misery and bad vibes on the wider internet.
There is literally no positive impact this podcast has made in the last year. The segments are all gone. The powerpoints are splintered, error-ridden and devolve into live brigading.
Why stay? Why stay if not to signal you're okay with the hate brigading, lying, harrassment, constant pushing of the boundaries of the worst things you can say to the people you're punching down on?
Hila, Dan, AB, Olivia, Love, Zach - they endorse it. They enjoy it.