Oh fuck off, Ben Shapiro
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Ben Shapiro and the DW are 100% in the right in this one, and Crowder is a slimy douchebag who is 100% in the wrong.
Crowder solicited a job offer from the DW
10/5/22: The DW gave him an offer of $50 million for 4 years, meant to be a starting point for negotiations (the document even says this, that it's a starting point and a framework, not a "take it or leave it" deal)
11/2/22: Crowder gets INSULTED by the offer, demands $30M per year, and demands the DW re-write the term sheet entirely instead of making edits to the one already provided.
11/14/22: DW rejects Crowder's demands.
12/12/22: Steven registers http://StopBigCon.com, planning a future hit piece on the DW to cast himself as a rebel against the establishment, and a victim.
1/7/23: Steven texts Jeremy in friendly fashion to ask if they can talk.
1/9/23: Steven calls Jeremy and secretly tapes him.
Then Crowder releases his little hit piece, lambasting the "contract" without mentioning that it was not a final offer but just a starting point. He cherry picked out certain contract provisions designed to share or mitigate risk, some of which were provisions I would personally disagree with as a little excessive, and which might have been inserted or exaggerated purely to be "traded away". I don't do business that way, but it's a standard business practice. Nothing wrong whatsoever with the DW doing it.
Crowder is a fucking baby. An idiot child. He doesn't seem to understand how the concept of negotiation works. His ego couldn't handle getting offered what he thought he deserved as a 1st offer, to the point where he got emotional and unprofessional about it.
Crowder's attacks on the DW amount to r-antiwork bullshit.
And yes, Crowder did the supremely scumbag move of knifing his fellow conservatives and friends in the back and trying to damage their reputation, all so he could generate hype, drama, and views for his new project launch.
Watch Nick Rekieta's coverage of this and see if you still think this way. You are also missing Crowder's whole point, it isn't about the money, its about acknowledging DW has to toe the big tech line to make money and making money is more important to them than telling the uncensored truth.
I'm a better lawyer than he is, and I don't want to spend 7 hours watching one of his livestreams while he rambles on. I just checked his YT and he didn't post a video on this. I don't see what value Nick Rekieta's would possibly add to mine. I've probably negotiated a lot more contracts than he has.
So you mean exactly the same thing Crowder does every day on his Youtube channel? That he is doing right now? Crowder is a massive hypocrite attacking the DW for putting in the contract "if you go full Kanye and get mass banned everywhere so we can't monetize your content, we can cut your pay" when Crowder censors himself every day and has a whole segment that says "if you want to see my takes too hot for Youtube, go to my web site". This is exactly the same thing DW hosts say and do to direct traffic to the DW web site.
Weren't you the dumbass arguing with me on reddit that cops can't order passengers out of vehicles?? Not sure if I can take you seriously when you were wrong about something I learned before even going to law school.