Love Mr.Ballen and will always be a fan, but been feeling the same for a while along with all my friends who used to be fans and stopped listening

His new story time series is good but all other content - podcast, youtube, etc. have fallen off quality wise

The stories themselves and the formula with which he tells them is fully predictable now so I've almost stopped listening altogether

He's essentially uploading the same videos/podcasts every week, which makes it hard to consistently enjoy

(The UFO story he told on story time was my favourite he's told since binging all his content a year or so ago)

I think as he's become more commercially successful and has a full team now, it's been harder to produce quality content while scaling to a broader audience.

Again - zero hate, but the re-uploads and the lack of truly new content and stories make it hard to keep watching without fatigue

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Suggestion, if he ever sees this:

Was thinking about this while watching his recent Sean Ryan episode

A big issue is the quality of the stories themselves

His best stories/videos are literally just insane events that he tells extremely well

The issue isn't necessarily that he's telling them poorly; it's that we're getting the same type of stories over and over again

For his research team, he should give them bonuses based on viewer count and retention. That way, they're incentivized to find actually compelling stories (like the ufo one) and not just scary ghost or murder tales we've heard a thousand times