Stephen Colbert's replacement Larry Wilmore at Comedy Central's The Nightly Show isn't enjoying the level of success seen by his predecessor, and has instead seen a 55 percent drop in ratings since he took over. 

Why the drop? Wilmore did a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and received some not-so-nice feedback from Colbert fans. 

According to several commenters, Wilmore too often falls back on vapid pop culture commentary or race relations in America for his punchlines and segment focuses, abandoning the humorous-but-heartfelt championing of science and reason that was a recurring theme for The Daily Show’s [Jon] Stewart and Wilmore’s predecessor, Colbert. …

These weren’t isolated opinions. More than 1,000 comments were posted in the AMA about this one clip—meaning more than a third of the entire AMA discussion was centered on this specific topic. A few defended the segment, noting that it gave Nye an opportunity to confront the nation’s widespread apathy toward scientific discovery, but most said Wilmore’s approach simply worsened the problem by reveling in disinterest rather than mocking it.

Wilmore defended himself by saying what his show was actually about, and given his answer, there is no wonder no one likes it:

"One of the missions of the show when we started was to be an answer to The Daily Show and focus on race, class and gender,” Wilmore wrote. "It’s really those three things, though it seems like a lot of talk on race. It’s one of the ways we were distinguishing ourselves from The Daily Show."