Steven Crowder responds to Daily Wire: It was never about the money
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I would lump Candace Owens reaction as a drama vortex. She seamed unhinged and went very personal very quickly which is funny considering Steven started this off without naming anyone. And even after the attacks he has said nice things about Klaven, Peterson, and Shapiro. Doesn’t matter that people speculated it was them it could just as well had been fox, tpusa, oan, newsmax, etc.
And their resistance appears to be what crowder has a problem with. Sure with unknown talent there are risks. But crowder really isn’t an unknown. They were willing to put up 50 mil over 4 years for him and he had a subscriber base a third of the size of their whole network. And they are worried about being demonetized on YouTube despite the ad reads and subs being like 95% of the income. And that would go for the younger talent Crowder was voicing concern over getting that same crap deal.
And Rekeita has pointed out on his live stream that sure you give an offer lower than what you expect to agree to when negotiating but you don’t go so low you insult the person you are offering it to. That kills any chance of them doing business together and kind of makes you wonder if it was even a serious offer in the first place.
We all knew about Candace since before KIA2 was active, but a normie coming across one of her clips shared on Facebook doesn't stand a chance. For clarity, I referring to Shapiro and Boreing (and any private investors I'm unaware of) when I said Daily Wire, not any of their other hosts or writers.
Daily Wire the business became suspect when Ben had blinders regarding the military industrial complex, promoted the vaccine (so I've heard, haven't listened for more than 4 minutes since May 2020), and provided risk-averse coverage of the presidential election and Jan 6; this recent event is just dramatic evidence. Similarly, every everyday Joe should have been outraged about potential govt. surveillance abuse before Assange and Snowden were breaking news, before the Patriot Act was a possibility.
I've never like Candace. I wasn't sure she was a grifter like everyone else says but instead personally dislike her. She huffs her own farts.
I've barely listened to Ben since 2019 but yes he was pushing the vaccine up until tech stopped banning questioning it which is a good example of the DW bending knee.
Walsh is the only one I've watched and I know he's constantly skirting the edge on social media and YouTube as to what he can say. I'm pretty sure he's only holding back because of the contract. He was also one who didn't mention the drama except to make a joke about a rivalry with Candace Owens
My personal write-off for her was listening to her Sunday interview with Shapiro where she critiqued Shapiro's constitutionally based disdain for presidential pomp and circumstance. The premise itself was interesting, that casuals and normies don't relate to formalism and intrinsic virtue, but her tone and conclusion that such people should be catered to was fundamentally leftist in attitude and rationale.
Note: I'm reverse-steelmanning her as my description makes her argument appear more profound than it really was.
I have no problem with Klaven and Walsh. Knowles I've barely listened to. When Shapiro is off, it's in the manner of legacy media and a liability to heterodox movements.
The only problem with Klavan is he still thinks that we need to have a false sense of decorum in what we do.
I like Knowles but I just stopped listening to him because of his time slot.
Shapiro is smart but establishment lite and I've seen how that turns out already.