ICYMI - How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie to discuss his recent profile of Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer. Launched by Mercer and his friends in 2015, Critical Role is undoubtedly a megahit, boasting over 600 million views on YouTube. As Winkie wrote in his profile, “A 2021 data leak out of Twitch confirmed that Critical Role is one of the richest channels on the platform, generating a mammoth $9.6 million in revenue between 2019 and 2021.” Hampton, Lim and Winkie discuss the appeal of Critical Role, the so-called “Mercer Effect” and whether Critical Role’s success indicates that Dungeons & Dragons is no longer just the domain of the proudly geeky.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim. |
| 0:14.8 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:19.0 | And Casey missed it. |
| 0:20.7 | Slate podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:23.3 | And today we are starting strong because we have a guest that you've heard on the show |
| 0:28.0 | before. |
| 0:29.3 | Slate writer Luke Winky. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello, Luke. |
| 0:31.3 | Thank you guys. |
| 0:32.3 | Going to be back. |
| 0:33.3 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm so excited you're here. |
| 0:43.0 | You have been pretty busy since the last time you spoke to you. |
| 0:46.4 | You have written about Trader Joe's employees, hooking up with each other. |
| 0:51.9 | You've written a few times about sex in the city. |
| 0:55.5 | You lived your life like Mike Pence recently for a week, but I think most importantly, |
| 1:01.7 | you recently went to the planet of the base. |
| 1:07.0 | I did go to the planet of the base. |
| 1:17.6 | It's true. |
| 1:18.6 | I caught up with our guy who will be smashing the billboard top 10 very soon in a very, |
| 1:25.1 | very strange era for the billboard top 10. |
| 1:26.7 | At least that's what that's my prediction. |
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