Gaming podcasts keep splitting into Patreon exclusives,

Gaming podcasts keep splitting into Patreon exclusives, YouTube-only shows, Spotify video feeds, Discord uploads, and “premium” side channels, and somehow discovery feels worse than when I was digging through iTunes charts in 2016. I find new shows now almost entirely because another creator casually mentions them on a stream or podcast — the actual platforms still do a terrible job surfacing stuff you’d genuinely stick with.