Steven Crowder responds to Daily Wire: It was never about the money
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Daily Wire knew exactly what they were doing when they put out the video. Everyone was focused on the amount while ignoring that a) it would be over the span of 4 years, b) give Crower less of a profit over his mug club, c) would require him to spend even more on his overhead, d) any product costs comes out of his $50m payment, e) would give Daily Wire complete control over his social media, f) which is made worse by the fact that they will fucking fine him for any social media infractions.
Daily Wire is acting like they're doing Crowder a favor despite Crowder bringing more fans to DW than vice versa, but what do you expect from Shylock HQ?
Yeah, Crowder wasn't getting a 50 mil salary, he was getting a $12m/yr budget. He had to pay everything out of that to make the show- employees, equipment, studio space, insurance, security, etc. On top of that he wasn't getting any (IIRC) of the merch or ad money and losing a bunch of control.
Any money DW took wasn't just a taking money out of his pocket, it was taking away his ability to pay for the entire production- and he couldn't even reduce production quality of the show to save money as per the contract.
"Oy vey, isn't an annual budget of $12m enough? Surely, you don't need more than $10m. I would kill to have $8m every year!"
Still my favorite (New York) Jew joke.