[0 fucks given about downvotes, I know this sub hates Ben Shapiro and the DW. I routinely speak truth to those who don't want to hear it on Reddit, lol.]
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.
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Crowder solicited a job offer from the DW
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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)
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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.
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11/14/22: DW rejects Crowder's demands.
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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.
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1/7/23: Steven texts Jeremy in friendly fashion to ask if they can talk.
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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 baby. 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. "slave contract" for $50 million. Riiiiight.
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. Secretly recording a phone call made under false pretenses is a mega scumbag move.
I would like a rational explanation for people who say this why it shouldn't be public information that The Daily Wire is censoring the right for big tech through contracts with extreme monetary penalties. Under such a contract Crowder literally could not have reported on the CDC's own data when he did because he got struck for it.
That is the standard that the Daily Wire's entire staff work under.
Literally false. He could have reported on it, but he would have taken a revenue hit for the remainder of the year when the strike happened. As for why the penalty is there, it's simple economics?
According to Forbes, in September 2022 Daily Wire has about 600k subscribers on their site. Their youtube channel has 3 million subs. Shapiro's youtube channel has 5 million subs. Crowder's youtube channel has 6 million subs. I've no idea how many followers any of them have on Facebook, or anywhere else, but it's probably in the millions there as well. If the channel takes strikes, or worse yet gets taken down, the reach of and views on the videos dramatically decreases.
So what is a rational explanation for why the DW should keep paying Crowder the same amount of money if his videos views crater due to getting taken off platforms?
You can (I think legitimately) argue that the amount it is reduced is too much, but that's a separate conversation, one which Crowder apparently wasn't interested in having. He essentially seems to be saying that DW should fully subsidize new creators even if those creators are bringing in no money and essentially getting 0 views - it would be great if people could do that, but financial realities are a thing regardless of how much we might wish them not to be.
(Plus, it is just odd how Crowder says in the same breath "It's not about the money!" followed by "Why are you docking the money?")
Also, there's the simple fact that Crowder sat on this for two months, and had the domain registered for over a month before he called Jeremy for what seems like the express purpose of recording the phone call (which he says he's only done 2 other times in his life), and then releasing his first video. And he has the gall to title his latest video on it "I didn't want to do this...", which is just BS. It really seems like he planned this out in an attempt to cause maximum drama.