How Elephant Graveyard Exposed Joe Rogan's Comedy Cult

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For the unfamiliar, Elephant Graveyard is a mysterious, anonymous creator best known for long-form pop-culture video essays on YouTube. Their most notable work dissects the Joe Rogan’s rise with a particular focus on the Austin comedy scene. Over the last year , they’ve picked apart Joe Rogan’s career, culminating in last month’s hour-and-a-half essay, How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult .

At ninety minutes, the essay is longer than most viewers will tolerate, especially if they’re indifferent to Rogan or Austin comedy. Still, the video — amplified repeatedly by Marc Maron and others — has landed with force. It’s fascinating, sharp, satirical, conspiratorial, and, yes, pr

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