Even though it's not really about the money, people need to understand just how evil that contract DW makes their talent sign really is.
In Hollywood, 99% of actors are getting paid some type of scale. Meaning, you get paid no matter what. You aren't making residuals off the movie, but even if the movie never gets released, you still took home a paycheck. Only the absolute premier talent gets residuals.
There isn't an actor in Hollywood whose pay is docked if the movie flops. All risk is assumed by the publisher.
Daily Wire is pushing all risk on their talent, and they are paying their talent scale, while they pocket all the extra profit. Meaning if Crowder's show is a runaway success and brings in way more money than they thought, he doesn't see a dime of it. Yet if his show is a flop, he loses everything.
Even if the entire Daily Wire, every single host, all of it, were to be fully deleted from the internet, they still have DW+ income and advertisers (who will be paying less, admittedly, but they still have like a 600K+ subs), yet all their operating expenses drop 95% because they can quit paying their talent. And their talent is trapped in a 4 year contract and can't leave without incurring even more fiscal damage.
It's a fantastically wicked contract. The kind of shit some sweaty record exec would pull. This is the sort of contract only a total sleazeball would write. This is the streamer version of a greasy used car salesman selling you a 15 year old car with a bent frame and a rolled-back odometer and sneaking in 18% APR financing.
Except, it wasn't a contract, it was a terms sheet. They may have low-balled Crowder but this isn't uncommon in contract negotiations with large dollar signs attached.
The testimony of everyone who works at Daily Wire seems to be that Boering makes a hard bargain but that they ultimately get what they're want contractually and are very happy with how they're treated. People who are unaccustomed to contract negotiations and big business are reading into it all sorts of bad intentions that may make sense to the layperson but are standard business procedure.
People are free not to like how big business operates -- I don't either -- but acting like this was a conspiracy to silence and control Crowder or other small creators is ridiculous. Andrew Torba doesn't know what he's talking about.
Oh, fuck off with that bullshit. This was a contract offer in everything but name. If Crowder had said "Yes", they wouldn't have turned around and told him "No, no, no! You're our friend! We wouldn't make you sign something like this!" They'd have copied it all verbatim in contract form and been proud of it. And the deal was insultingly bad. From a youtube comment:
To put the pay in perspective. Imagine you wanted to hire your "friend" to work for you and you know his services are worth $20 an hour but you offer him $10 an hour. And you forbid him from getting a second job in the field he's most experienced in. And he has to pay for all the tools and supplies he needs to do the job for you out of the $10/hr. And he can't set up a go fund me to help with his expenses. And he can't sell shirts with his face or name on it. And he's locked into this deal for 4 years. Personally I wouldn't offer a deal like that to my worst enemy let alone my friend
The above is a pretty good summary of the situation, but even that is being more generous than what this DW "offer" actually said. He would have had to also mention that if the contractor refused to turn around and shout support for a sponsorship he didn't choose himself, then he would get no pay for the entire day. Or if someone else decided to come along and choose to throw explosives (basically being demonetized or banned for arbitrary reasons) on everything the contractor built throughout the 4 year contract (that could be extended to 6 years against his will at the sole behest of DW), the contractor would be the one held liable for the damage incurred by the vandal for nearly the entirety of the amount promised to him over his entire contract, without regard for any profit that came from his work.
The DW is entirely in the wrong here. This is not something that anyone even remotely making any offers in good faith would even think to suggest. They also even dare to claim that writing down such utter contemptible trash was "Just standard business practices", and then turn around and say that Crowder made a treacherous, personal attack against them for openly calling out the business practices, while not mentioning them by name. Boering and the rest of the DW crew that were sicced on Crowder deserve all the criticism that they get.
Oh, fuck off with that bullshit. This was a contract offer in everything but name.
Except it wasn’t, it was a terms sheet. A real contract would have to be written up before anything could be signed and legally binding.
You can ask anyone who has been in large multi-million contract negotiations before and they will explain that negotiations begins with a terms sheet, usually at one extreme or another, and end up somewhere in the middle. I’m not saying this is right or wrong, only that it’s normal at this level of business.
If Crowder had said "Yes", they wouldn't have turned around and told him "No, no, no! You're our friend! We wouldn't make you sign something like this!" They'd have copied it all verbatim in contract form and been proud of it. And the deal was insultingly bad. From a youtube comment:
Nobody in their right mind would accept a contract without reading it, so that was never a possibility.
Brett Cooper signed a contract with DW while she was still an unknown, and when her content exploded and became very successful, they came to her and volunteered to renegotiate her contract, something that only worked in her favor and they had no obligation to do.
It makes no financial sense for DW to abuse their creators, and there’s zero evidence they’ve ever exploited or tricked their employees. Crowder on the other hand…
Beyond his underhandedness in this situation, Crowder has used contract law (NDA) to silence NotGayJared and allegedly got him fired from another job after he left Crowder. He did something to Sven Computer (allegedly refusing to pay him due wages) who remains silent most likely due to threat of NDA. He threatened to sue a fan Twitter account for Hopper the dog when they wouldn’t turn it over to him. People who have worked with him say he’s high strung, demanding, takes everything personally, holds grudges and is overall not a good person to work for. Owen Benjamin has been calling Crowder out for years for his mistreatment of employees.
I don’t care if you hate the Daily Wire or not, Crowder is clearly in the wrong here and is airing his dirty laundry to his own benefit. He’s not the hero people think he is.
EDIT: It totally skipped my mind, but Owen Benjamin actually said Crowder silenced him from talking about how all the trans kids hormones came from a single large company in Israel.
You can love or hate Owen Benjamin, think he’s crazy or whatever, but just understand that there is a track record of accusations against Crowder for the same things Daily Wire is being accused of.
Boering outright said he expected to ultimately end up paying double. You're a piece of utter dogshit if you lowball someone by 50%. The ONLY reason to do that is because you hate the person's guts and you want them to not even waste time with a counter-offer, or you are banking on them feeling like such an asshole asking for 250% (in order to 'meet in the middle') that they'll lowball themselves and you end up making bank.
Boering is a piece of shit for doing that and I'm fucking thrilled his garbage company is being trashed. He deserves it. The fact that they didn't even fire Candace Owens for her behavior on Timcast means that this is who they really are.
Crowder has used contract law (NDA) to silence NotGayJared and allegedly got him fired from another job after he left Crowder
lmao oh fuck off. There's SO MANY fucking stores about NotGayJared that it's obvious they're all 100% fucking made-up nonsense. This is the new, latest story? What about the one where his mother was dying and Crowder refused to let him see her? Or the story about how he wasn't allowed to even see his kid when he was born? Or the story about how Crowder stole all his money? Give it a fucking break.
Even though it's not really about the money, people need to understand just how evil that contract DW makes their talent sign really is.
In Hollywood, 99% of actors are getting paid some type of scale. Meaning, you get paid no matter what. You aren't making residuals off the movie, but even if the movie never gets released, you still took home a paycheck. Only the absolute premier talent gets residuals.
There isn't an actor in Hollywood whose pay is docked if the movie flops. All risk is assumed by the publisher.
Daily Wire is pushing all risk on their talent, and they are paying their talent scale, while they pocket all the extra profit. Meaning if Crowder's show is a runaway success and brings in way more money than they thought, he doesn't see a dime of it. Yet if his show is a flop, he loses everything.
Even if the entire Daily Wire, every single host, all of it, were to be fully deleted from the internet, they still have DW+ income and advertisers (who will be paying less, admittedly, but they still have like a 600K+ subs), yet all their operating expenses drop 95% because they can quit paying their talent. And their talent is trapped in a 4 year contract and can't leave without incurring even more fiscal damage.
It's a fantastically wicked contract. The kind of shit some sweaty record exec would pull. This is the sort of contract only a total sleazeball would write. This is the streamer version of a greasy used car salesman selling you a 15 year old car with a bent frame and a rolled-back odometer and sneaking in 18% APR financing.
Except, it wasn't a contract, it was a terms sheet. They may have low-balled Crowder but this isn't uncommon in contract negotiations with large dollar signs attached.
The testimony of everyone who works at Daily Wire seems to be that Boering makes a hard bargain but that they ultimately get what they're want contractually and are very happy with how they're treated. People who are unaccustomed to contract negotiations and big business are reading into it all sorts of bad intentions that may make sense to the layperson but are standard business procedure.
People are free not to like how big business operates -- I don't either -- but acting like this was a conspiracy to silence and control Crowder or other small creators is ridiculous. Andrew Torba doesn't know what he's talking about.
Oh, fuck off with that bullshit. This was a contract offer in everything but name. If Crowder had said "Yes", they wouldn't have turned around and told him "No, no, no! You're our friend! We wouldn't make you sign something like this!" They'd have copied it all verbatim in contract form and been proud of it. And the deal was insultingly bad. From a youtube comment:
The above is a pretty good summary of the situation, but even that is being more generous than what this DW "offer" actually said. He would have had to also mention that if the contractor refused to turn around and shout support for a sponsorship he didn't choose himself, then he would get no pay for the entire day. Or if someone else decided to come along and choose to throw explosives (basically being demonetized or banned for arbitrary reasons) on everything the contractor built throughout the 4 year contract (that could be extended to 6 years against his will at the sole behest of DW), the contractor would be the one held liable for the damage incurred by the vandal for nearly the entirety of the amount promised to him over his entire contract, without regard for any profit that came from his work.
The DW is entirely in the wrong here. This is not something that anyone even remotely making any offers in good faith would even think to suggest. They also even dare to claim that writing down such utter contemptible trash was "Just standard business practices", and then turn around and say that Crowder made a treacherous, personal attack against them for openly calling out the business practices, while not mentioning them by name. Boering and the rest of the DW crew that were sicced on Crowder deserve all the criticism that they get.
Except it wasn’t, it was a terms sheet. A real contract would have to be written up before anything could be signed and legally binding.
You can ask anyone who has been in large multi-million contract negotiations before and they will explain that negotiations begins with a terms sheet, usually at one extreme or another, and end up somewhere in the middle. I’m not saying this is right or wrong, only that it’s normal at this level of business.
Nobody in their right mind would accept a contract without reading it, so that was never a possibility.
Brett Cooper signed a contract with DW while she was still an unknown, and when her content exploded and became very successful, they came to her and volunteered to renegotiate her contract, something that only worked in her favor and they had no obligation to do.
It makes no financial sense for DW to abuse their creators, and there’s zero evidence they’ve ever exploited or tricked their employees. Crowder on the other hand…
Beyond his underhandedness in this situation, Crowder has used contract law (NDA) to silence NotGayJared and allegedly got him fired from another job after he left Crowder. He did something to Sven Computer (allegedly refusing to pay him due wages) who remains silent most likely due to threat of NDA. He threatened to sue a fan Twitter account for Hopper the dog when they wouldn’t turn it over to him. People who have worked with him say he’s high strung, demanding, takes everything personally, holds grudges and is overall not a good person to work for. Owen Benjamin has been calling Crowder out for years for his mistreatment of employees.
I don’t care if you hate the Daily Wire or not, Crowder is clearly in the wrong here and is airing his dirty laundry to his own benefit. He’s not the hero people think he is.
EDIT: It totally skipped my mind, but Owen Benjamin actually said Crowder silenced him from talking about how all the trans kids hormones came from a single large company in Israel.
You can love or hate Owen Benjamin, think he’s crazy or whatever, but just understand that there is a track record of accusations against Crowder for the same things Daily Wire is being accused of.
Boering outright said he expected to ultimately end up paying double. You're a piece of utter dogshit if you lowball someone by 50%. The ONLY reason to do that is because you hate the person's guts and you want them to not even waste time with a counter-offer, or you are banking on them feeling like such an asshole asking for 250% (in order to 'meet in the middle') that they'll lowball themselves and you end up making bank.
Boering is a piece of shit for doing that and I'm fucking thrilled his garbage company is being trashed. He deserves it. The fact that they didn't even fire Candace Owens for her behavior on Timcast means that this is who they really are.
lmao oh fuck off. There's SO MANY fucking stores about NotGayJared that it's obvious they're all 100% fucking made-up nonsense. This is the new, latest story? What about the one where his mother was dying and Crowder refused to let him see her? Or the story about how he wasn't allowed to even see his kid when he was born? Or the story about how Crowder stole all his money? Give it a fucking break.