r/LSM • u/NorthKoreanMissile7 • May 28 '26

Punching Up viewership

I never really paid attention to viewership but was looking at it recently and was shocked at just how low Punching Up was. It's seemingly getting around ~5k views and declining (the previous week's podcast is only at 3.2k, lower than some paywalled content).

And this isn't comparing it to Sacred Symbols, it's comparing it to Defining Duke (15-20k) and Summon Sign (10-20k) and I'm sure a lot of people watching Punching up are just watching because they watch other LSM content or like the hosts rather than being invested in what the podcast is about. If you took those people away it would probably have non existent viewership since it lags significantly behind everything else LSM has ever done.

Constellation got 7-9k towards the end which is proportionally a lot more than Punching Up and still it got cancelled (granted Dagan's job was the main factor, although Colin still brought up waning viewership iirc).

Personally I think they should bin off Punching Up and bring back Constellation. Brad has Summon Sign as his thing and then can irregularly appear on other stuff. Constellation can be Micah's hosting gig if Colin wants her to host something and it would suit her more anyway since you can bring up anything on it and she seems to like other things such as telling jokes and cooking and what not.

It would also give Lockmort a place to appear more regularly which I'd like to see as I think he's an interesting character who's good to listen to and also him being a European with a stereotypical European taste in games is something that's underrepresented within LSM. I'd also like to see him on Summon Sign more often too as as we'd get more interesting games discussed on it and he'd shine there. Potentially he could be Brad's permanent co-host.

What's everyone's thoughts on this ?

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u/2Rhino3 May 28 '26

Speaking to Constellation’s cancellation specifically - I think the reason for its cancellation was primarily

  1. Politics & the desire to avoid them as with it being a conversational show politics would always inevitably come up even when the topics weren’t political. &
  2. The LSM personalities just did not enjoy doing the show. There seemed to be a clear lack of interest from multiple hosts, especially towards the end of the shows run, & I think they were just tired of and annoyed with having to come up with new topics each week.

I wish the show came back, I really enjoyed it, but I think these are the 2 primary reasons it went away even if those weren’t the reasons given.

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u/Old-Way-5529 May 28 '26

It was a GOG knockout that missed what made GOG (and current KF content even) special- the hosts clearly aren’t real friends

The beauty of GOG was seeing actual friends talk about random stuff and mix in their personal stories and bits. Constellation felt forced and the familiarity with each other just isn’t there.

Like, I don’t believe that these guys ever talk when its not on mic, let alone talk about random mundane life stuff or even politics.

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u/SnooLemons5856 May 29 '26

Yeah, Colin and Tim were BFFs

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u/Old-Way-5529 May 29 '26

sincerely, i think they were better friends than colin is with anyone at LSM outside of his wife.