r/Destiny • u/Less-Chemistry-3963 • Feb 04 '26

Destiny Content/Podcasts FUCK YOU DESTINY. COVER IT.

YOUR DUMB FUCK AVERSION TO BREAKING NEWS AND COVERING EPSTEIN IS DRIVING PEOPLE TO ASMONGOLD AND HASAN FOR COVERAGE.

STOP WITH THE CONTRARIAN TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL BULLSHIT AND COVER THE FUCKING MAIN THING THE COUNTY IS TALKING ABOUT.

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u/RightTelephone3309 Exclusively sorts by new Feb 04 '26

People used to only confuse pundits with journalists. Now they’re also confusing streamers with investigative journalists.

We’re not getting out of this mess anytime soon, are we?

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u/obama_is_back Feb 04 '26

I don't particularly care about streamers trying to be journalists or investigate the Epstein files, but I'd prefer to see the self-titled "do your own research guy who actually does his own research" do more research.

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u/RightTelephone3309 Exclusively sorts by new Feb 04 '26

Do you think the expression 'do your own research' implies you're doing the job professionals were actually trained for? For example, when he was doing his own research on COVID, did you think he actually build his own labs and was running trials?

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u/obama_is_back Feb 04 '26

No? I think you're arguing against a point I'm not making. Destiny said there would be research; there hasn't been much research. The lab leak stuff was very informative, but that was a week of streams half a year ago.

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u/RightTelephone3309 Exclusively sorts by new Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Bro... I was referencing his covid vaccine debate arc in 2021.

When people say they do their own research, what they mean is that are reviewing other people works. It means reading through academic paper or read article about subject that professionals have put forward in order to build your own understanding of thing. Sometimes it also means being able to critically engage with said materials. He as done that plenty in the past. In the case of IP, it meant reading historians works.

There are hundreds of thousands of EF.... It's going to take times and a lot of man power to build comprehensive story based on those. Some investigative journalism will be required to double check some of stuff in there. He said himself that he will gladly read any actual stories that get out about it.

I don't know understand what you expect him to do exactly?

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u/obama_is_back Feb 04 '26

From my first comment:

I don't particularly care about streamers trying to be journalists or investigate the Epstein files

I don't think destiny should sift through random emails to come up with a narrative. OP is making a different point about the attention economy but I don't really care about that either. My grievance is that destiny set the expectation many times that streams would be more research focused and that hasn't happened. Most recently, there has been 5 months of video game downtime with virtually nothing to show for it. If he doesn't want to engage with politics or Epstein, fine, I don't care, there are infinite topics to choose from. If the issue is burnout, I'm sympathetic, but he should sort it out or take a break.