Steven Crowder responds to Daily Wire: It was never about the money
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Not only do other conservative media companies pull this crap, but it's standard in the entertainment industry in general. Machinima had such blatantly awful contracts that I don't feel sympathy for talent that negligently took shitty offers, but it's depressing how much Machinima hamstrung the golden age of Youtube content.
This sad state of affairs happened because hardware infrastructure costs were astronomical in the mid aughts, forcing the founders to take venture capital and/or get acquired. Once the non-founder MBA types are in charge, there was no hope for a back-boned owner to call the advertising hacks on their bluff, and get a better deal for Youtube and the content creators.
Edit: Examples from RTvee about other political media.
A lot of the DW people who are commenting on this keep saying something along the lines of “this was the opening offer, you are supposed to negotiate….and he was your friend why did you record him?”
Well friends do not offer friends incredibly low and stupid contracts as a starting point…. And why not record a phone call you intend to talk business on?
Yeah- why would you offer your "friend" the biolerplate deal?
Why would you even offer one of the biggest stars in conservative media the boilerplate deal?
Why would you offere someone you didn't even like a deal this bad?
I know, $12.5 million/yr is the literal equivalent of slavery multiplied by 5 Holocausts. Tucker Carlson makes $6 million/yr but still, it's literal slavery to offer someone $12 million/yr.
The greatest irony is that Crowder actually had a skit a few years ago with Quarter Black and Dave Landau satirizing Colin Kaepernick regarding his retarded claim that he was a slave and the NFL were slaveholders.