I don't know, man. When Stewart or Colbert would have a good bit, I'd see it reposted a couple of times, but it seems like every episode of Oliver's show warrants 5,000 different social media posts from my friends/reddit with, "YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!" type messages.
I wish more people would talk about fracking. I didn't know about it until I worked on a documentary television show about it for the Weather Channel. I was beyond disturbed at what I learned and I can't believe that we're sitting here ignoring this issue like man-made earthquakes aren't a thing.
The first few times his videos were posted, and people were getting passionate about the topics he was shining light on, I was ecstatic. Things that NEEDED change were finally getting love, talked about in the media. How many times have we seen this, in this decade, where an issue no one was talking about finally comes to light, and we actually see change being made? I think the faster push to legalized marijuana with each passing year is a great example of this, where there's a way for people to be more vocal about the benefits, and how much money is being wasted, but I digress. My point is, somehow with Oliver, it seems like the buck stops with reposting his videos. I haven't seen them *actually* make an impact. When he pointed out the hypocrisy (and in my opinion evil) of Evangelicals, for example, with their mega-churches, and tax-exemption (I'm not against tax exemption for churches, but when a church is selling a product and turning a profit, it's time to take away that tax exemption), who take advantage of people like my aunt on a daily basis, I was thrilled. But nothing changed. It was an issue for a few days, but then it just went bye-bye.
I don't know why. I don't know what the answer is. Maybe it's because it's a weekly program and he doesn't come back to topics once he's covered them?
It just feels hollow, so I've stopped paying him any attention because seeing him just makes me think of keyboard warriors.