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?
A lot of the Crowder people keep making bad-faith arguments. Whatever argument you could make about what a friend should "offer" to a friend, you can just turn around and make the same argument as to what a friend should "take" from a friend. That point cancels the "friend" argument out in terms of BUSINESS. But what friends don't do is try to sabotage their friend's business because they don't like the business terms.
If I own a lawn-mowing business and a friend wants to hire me to cut the lawn/trim the bushes at his business and he offers to pay me less than the job is worth, I tell him that's not enough, here's what it would have to be and if he says that's too much, we both move on. We're still friends. What I don't do is go out and try to fuck his entire company over because we couldn't come to terms on a business deal.
Crowder is the snake in this whole debacle.
Except he didn’t go out and try to fuck over an entire company over. He never said Daily Wire. He actively avoided naming them. Daily wire thought it was a good idea and claim the shitty term sheet. A term sheet they admit they didn’t think he would agree to and would spend months negotiating. Why offer something full of terms you know the other side would not agree to? And guess what, if crowder was dumb and signed that term sheet it would have become the contract. So why offer terms you know someone you claim is a friend would be screwed over if they signed?
What if in your hypothetical lawn care business your friend also requests while you are cutting his grass he gets to fuck your wife? You would obviously be insulted. And his response is “well I didn’t think you’d go for it but it’s the standard offer I give all my lawn care providers”. Clearly that’s not really a friend and they were trying to take advantage of you. You then tell people at the bar that they would never guess what crap deal this anonymous person offered for you to cut their grass. Then the dumbass “friend” says it was me from the other side of the room.
There's this moron on KotakuInAction2 who gave the most moronic analogy about putting "I can fuck your wife" in a contract. This person made that moronic analogy because he couldn't make his point work without saying something that stupid. He also said something even dumber, claiming that signing a NON-BINDING term sheet, would somehow be legally binding, even though it's literally NON-BINDING.
I didn't mention this imbecile's name though so there's no way anyone could possibly figure out who I'm talking about.