This just makes Sydney look really bad.

This is also exactly what many theorized, after You Are Here fell apart. But makes Sydney look even more pathetic than I expected it to.

It's also bullshit that Elijah seemingly couldn't talk about this at all, and then Sydney goes public with a lawsuit. My guess is she's breaking existing NDA here, although I'm not sure how that works with a lawsuit.

Once Schaffer received his co-hosting spot at The Blaze, according to Watson, he insisted on inviting guests like “grossly misogynistic” white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes.

Yup, Sydney's looking incredibly pathetic and fragile with this whole thing. She should have just kept quiet and enjoyed the plausible deniability.

In her account, Watson found herself set up as Schaffer’s foil, embarrassed by her co-host and tricked into reading anti-Semitic messages from Schaffer’s far-right fans aloud on the show.

“It became a running gag for Mr. Schaffer and his audience that some of Mr. Schaffer’s fans would leave superchat comments with coded dog whistles that referenced grossly misogynistic and/or anti-Semitic comments for Ms. Watson to read with her not knowing what they meant,” the complaint reads.

In which someone who's built up their entire career doing internet content creation either pretends to not understand, or legitimately doesn't understand, how the internet works.

Also, considering they were cohosts...they weren't "Mr. Schaffer's fans," they were fans of the show, presumably including whining Watson. There was no hatred toward her from "Mr. Schaffer's fans." Quite the opposite.

Getting tricked into reading bad messages isn't embarrassing, it's hilarious, and part of the internet. If she wasn't so fragile this wouldn't be a big deal at all.

When Watson accidentally asked him [Jack Murphy] about that history, she claims, Murphy began to berate her. Rather than defend her, according to the lawsuit, Schaffer tried to cheer up his guest. Watson began to feel she had been turned into “the designated punching bag for the sexist guests and for Mr. Schaffer himself.”

I wouldn't say he tried to cheer Murphy up, but he was trying to keep the peace during a live show. He tried to calm him down and continue with the show until the end. He didn't bash Sydney or make her a "punching bag."

“The idea behind [the show] was never that it was to be a forum for the humiliation and abuse of the female co-host as the male host smirked and egged on this appalling behavior,” the complaint reads.

Uh, that's not how most people would have described the show. At all.

“It did not help that Mr. Schaffer would get drunk on set, and get guests drunk as well,” the lawsuit reads.

If true...no, it probably did help.

The relationship between the hosts broke down, according to Watson, when Schaffer refused to “stop unilaterally booking misogynistic and abusive people” on their show.

The argument could be made the exact opposite way; she wanted unilateral control over who couldn't be invited onto the show.

Their fight regularly spilled into the public eye—in April 2022, for example, Schaffer tweeted that he “hope[d]” Watson would sleep with Gorka, a married former Trump White House adviser. In the lawsuit, Watson describes herself as “devastated” by Schaffer’s suggestion.

I have no clue of the context, but it's a silly thing to get "devestated" about. And, again not knowing the context, I'm not even sure that was a "fight" spilling over.

Still, Schaffer kept criticizing Watson even after their show ended, referencing her in thinly veiled Twitter posts and livestream appearances with other conservative personalities.

I can't claim to have heard every statement he made, but around that time I did catch some of his appearances, and he would barely talk about it all, likely due to NDAs or simply not wanting to shitfling. If he'd actually wanted to go after her, he would have said how whiny Watson was. Some people guessed it, but I never heard Elijah say it.

Sydney's doing a lot of damage to herself with this nonsense.