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BeforeCatalyst for irony-heavy leftist online spaces
AfterPodcast begins publishing; later funded directly by listener subscriptions. Chapo Trap House began publishing in March 2016, hosted by Will Menaker, Matt Christman and Felix Biederman, and moved to listener funding through Patreon later that year. It went on to become one of the highest-earning accounts on that platform. The show is commonly associated with the label "dirtbag left." The sources located for this entry establish the podcast's existence, its funding model and the currency of the label, but do not establish that the show caused the style or the term; Amber A'Lee Frost's August …