Blonde's statement:
https://x.com/Blondes_tweets/status/1847851545049911648
https://nitter.poast.org/Blondes_tweets/status/1847851545049911648
Matt's (sorta) response:
https://x.com/MLChristiansen/status/1847852591868531091
https://nitter.poast.org/MLChristiansen/status/1847852591868531091
If you don't know, the Matt and Blonde Show was a weekly (briefly twice weekly) show going over a handful of noteworthy news stories for the week. Matt Christiansen hosted it on his channel, and it was co-hosted by Blonde. Matt's more of a borderline-autistic conservative, while Blonde is burn-this-shit-down reactionary, so they had a pretty interesting dynamic. One disassembles and analyzes a story, the other just rips it to shreds.
You may also have heard of Matt from the recent Tenet drama, since he was one of the channels under them. As an independent channel, he was always a very thorough investigator, and meticulous about sourcing his arguments. His work was practically spotless, which made it hard for anyone to smear him until the Tenet thing happened.
We'll have to wait until tomorrow to hear Matt's side apparently. Normally I'd back him immediately, but being involved in a phony federal investigation is the kind of pressure that makes most people crack, especially when they have something to lose.
TL;DR: Blonde says she'd have to pull back on important topics for her (likely race and failing democracy) for somewhat unclear reasons, and chose to leave the show instead, Matt says he'd word it differently. It's all very vague as of yet.
Former regular watcher starting during COVID and falling off the last few years due to the length of the show and the tired format.
There's really not much info provided in either party's statement.
Blonde already had one foot out the door a year ago when pregnant with her 2nd child and Matt announced his deal with Tenet. They canceled their Wednesday call-in show they'd done for years to be replaced by Matt's solo "Matt Christiansen Hour" for Tenet with his grating Aussie producer Tim. The show did not perform well. Blonde & Matt continued to do their usual Sunday news show.
When Tenet collapsed, Blonde returned and they went back to twice weekly shows (I haven't watched any since Tenet's demise).
Matt has always been the straight man, doing all the show prep, dealing with sponsors, booking guests, hosting the show on his channel, doing the IT stuff, etc. Blonde is the firebrand, based, politicaly incorrect co-host with the pretty face that simply shows up.
Another problem is that their life situations have changed since the start of the show. Blonde lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Matt lives in Bozeman, Montana.
They've only met in person on a handful of occasions IRL. The show started around the time of Trump’s initial run in 2016. At the time, Rebecca was a single, recovering alcoholic, Lauren Southern-style shock jock right-leaning twenty something babe living in Seattle, originally from St. Louis, MO with an Economics degree and working a finance job she hated.
Matt was a recovering leftist working in ?Portland, OR for some leftist org, making CoD videos as skagg_3.
Matt was single. Rebecca helped him vet dating profiles, eventually meeting his current wife Ping2 and mother to his ?two children (there was also a miscarriage at some point).
Matt's brother ?Wade was a vet who committed suicide with a firearm in the Main St of his town. Matt lived in his dead brother's house and streamed out of it for years until his family got too big and recently sold it.
Blonde is a practising Catholic (tho her hubby might not be). Matt is an agnostic who recently took an interest in Christianity through weekly online Bible study sessions.
Blonde has got married and had two children since starting the show. She quit her finance job long ago and is a SAHM. She's well into her 30s, is sober and is well past her conservathot days.
Blonde does do sporadic hour long interviews with people she finds interesting on her own channel that somehow isn't banned (Owen Benjamin, Gavin McInnes, Radfem Hitler, Ramzpaul, etc). She seems to be able to pull guests based on her looks. The knock has always been that she's lazy and inconsistent as a creator on her own, particularly as a mom now.
Matt is consistent like a Swiss watch. He does two live shows and two videos a week. He's well researched, trustworthy and boring. He hasn't really changed the style of his content much over the last 8 years. His videos are well produced but get fairly low views. His entire income comes from his YT content.
I don't know how well Matt will do on his own. He's hardworking, but a slave to routine and pretty dry on his own. His livestream audience didn't seem to follow him to Tenet. Part of this was because subscribing to his shows there required being bombarded with the rest of the mishmash of slop from the other 5 creators.
Some of it was that his Aussie producer Tim was nice but awful to listen to and didn't add much to the product. Matt, while philosophical, fair and well read, simply isn't willing to be as edgy and avant-garde as Blonde. Which means a lot of his content isn't that different from the rest of Con Inc.
Very useful summary. I like Matt from what little I've heard of him in the post-Tenet interviews, seems more principled and less retarded than some of the rest of the conserva-sphere, but this video on SIDS was the first vid I've ever seen from her and it's clear from both the topic of the video and bits like 9m45s that she is not YT friendly.
I suspect these parts cut to the root of the issue and are the final-straw factors behind the reported pay disputes discussed further up:
He is running a dissident political channel that is heavily reliant on a captured, censored, hostile media platform. She's more based, is less connected to his audience and could take or leave the show. Intriguingly, that SIDS video is the last example of her content which isn't a livestream.
Seems less about money than it was about patience - he'd lost patience with a lesser contributing partner, she'd lost patience with tailoring her contributions to a censored show, so any pay dispute is just a cloaked opportunity for them both to announce their exhausted patience.
It is, in my opinion, not very wise, umm, not very a lot of things to put your newborn's picture on YouTube. They can't consent to that. And you can't take it back.
But I'm very, very careful with pictures. I've had people tell me they can't find recent pictures using my real name. SO maybe other people disagree.
On the topic, the people who roll over their babies and kill them are drugged or they have some sort of medical problem. Those particular cases aren't the result of a syndrome, as commonly understood. It's just drunk, tired, and retarded people.
It's actually a similar thing that happened with Dev and Scrumpmonkey.
ShortFatOtaku got his channel demonetized because Scrumpmonkey blurted out Power Word Nigger in a broadcast. It completely fucked Dev over and caused a fallout with Scrump. I'm also fairly sure Scrump didn't earn a majority of the money nor did he do a majority of the tech work and SFO did most of it. And, just like the above situation, SFO needed the money. Scrump probably has a career outside of YT and doesn't need it. Same problem.
The "firebrand with moderate" schtick doesn't work in the YouTube spaec because of the censorious media. The "firebrand" only worked because she had her golden parachute in her husband she could scab off of, while Matt was trying to build a career off of making this show work.
There's a pretty obvious reason why the lady doesn't want to present her side. If any of what Matt said is correct, people would instantly be going "...oh."
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/1994kCXymm/pretty-wild-tenet-media-owned-by/c/
TL; DR - Tenet Media was a multichannel network startup from 2023 signing up six American conservative personalities (Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tayler Hansen, Lauren Southern, Matt Christiansen) to produce YT content for their new channel.
It was silently run by Lauren Chen and her husband. It was always somewhat suspect because it had relatively big names producing slick content with very low engagement.
The DOJ blew the lid off it a few months back revealing that the channel was financially backed by thinly veiled Russian glowies. Payments immediately stopped and the channel folded. Lauren Chen isn't charged but has gone into hiding, completely radio silent.
All the front facing US creators claim ignorance. The DOJ seems to agree they didn't know and no one has been formally charged.
The problem is this was an ideologically driven attack on the right wing conservative media space. You know the DOJ only does it because it serves the deep state. Having these big conservative channels fly around like that that can automatically counter the mainstream left wing narrative is a threat to their status.
That also begs the question, why hasn't the DOJ attacked Russia Today for existing?
He's hosed without her. She's jumping ship before the feds take everything. Probably diming to them behind his back.
I stopped watching Matt's show for the same reason she was bored: current events reactionary stuff is boring, and Matt is always 2 days late and ten dollars short. He does a good show, admittedly, but where wants to focus is intensely boring to me.
Blonde was JQ aware, and that is what Matt means when he talks about "risking his livelyhood." He apparently wants to take the ticket, and chase fame and money.
I'm sure it hurt having the 12k/month of Russian money for essentially the same content as he did for the first 7 years ripped away from him.
It's also 12k he got to keep himself, meaning the show would have to gross 24k/month to split with Blonde to be as comfortable.
Now he's right back to grinding for YT shekels.
It wasn't $12k for himself. He was paying for (some) production costs and also paying his producer Tim. I'm sure he was still taking home a decent chunk but after taxes and paying everyone, that $12k/month looks more like $4-5k/month take-home.
If Tim was paid anything more than exposure, Matt wildly overpaid.
It wouldn't be out of character for Matt to wildly overpay someone.
I've sent money to their show a few times -- I think he does good work and I'd rather give strong support to one guy than a bunch of smaller contributions to multiple channels.
I send it via check so that Youtube doesn't take a cut. He sends handwritten thank-you notes in return.
I agree- Matt strikes me as someone with more heart than business sense. Him burning this stuff to the ground seems like it’s owing to financial issues he has because tenet exploded in his face.
The handwritten thank you notes is a nice touch.
I do still respect Matt's consistency & hustle.
Though like all YTubers who complain about having "No Time" despite only a few public facing hours a week, I do wonder what they specifically do all week behind the scenes compared to your average wage slave job.
When the Tenet DOJ story broke, Matt claimed that he wasn't using any in-house Tenet resources other than a thumbnail guy.
Dangerous Spaces / Producer Tim used to be their call screener all month with the sole payment of having a dedicated call personally at the end of the calendar. I'm sure Matt paid him a small sum to actually help produce his new Tenet product, but Tim already proved he would work for very cheap.
The point of the newfound 12k/month in Tenet guaranteed money for a year the he didn't split 50/50 with Blonde was a windfall because it only required a single hour livestream a week and two videos that he was already producing anyway.
At the pace things go on the internet, weekly, or even twice weekly outlets, are just old news.
Shit. Beauty and the Beta has been my every fucking Monday morning show (I can never actually cstch it on Sunday so I always watch the day after) for what feels like forever now.
Fuck. That's a downer. I actually can't watch Blonde's channel, the interview format bores me to tears in general. Matt's channel I watch religiously but the main draw was always the Sunday show.
Sounds like Sunday show will continue, just without Blonde. It will likely take a bit, but I imagine he'll do solo until he can line up a new cohost. Someone jokingly said Lauren Chen...haha.
Him and that Frank guy have done some shows together
This is upsetting. They were such a strong duo and basically the only news round up show worth tuning in to, and it was specifically because you had Blonde's fiery rhetoric sitting right next to Matt's level headed takes.
This absolutely sucks and I'm so sad to see them break up like this.
Well, that's out of nowhere.
It still remains to be seen if there are sides. That said, if there are, I'm with you that we'll have to wait and see...but I expect to be with Matt, but who knows.
Honestly, weird move. It was always Matt's show, he's quite pro free speech, so if he was asking her to 'censor' it was basically because he wanted to stay on topic, I assume. While it was the Matt & Blonde show, Matt was totally the driving force. And I think Blonde would admit that herself. I like her, and she's funny, but she'll be the first to admit that she's...uh, not super dedicated. She said as much pretty much every week. This show was a great opportunity for her, since she just had to show up. If she's managing her own stuff instead, I really don't see it being as reliable, not even close.
Also, Blonde is known for being a bit...explosive and impulsive, which is another reason I'm tentatively siding with Matt until more information. If you take his mini-statement at face value, sounds like she jumped the gun bigtime, which is pretty disrespectful, too. But who knows what's going on behind that scenes.
Sad to hear they're breaking up, and it will be interesting to hear Matt's side. Man, dude just can't catch a break, huh? It's a serious meme at this point.
I never really followed them much, I watched a few of Matt's videos a few years ago and then stopped because I didn't have much interest, ironically in part because of what the chick said here: News reaction channels are a dime a dozen, and while Matt was the best of the bunch in terms of reasonableness, it gets hard to give a fuck after seeing the same bullshit over and over again in slightly different contexts.
This seems like some weird, very minor drama to me, dunno why she framed her tweet in such a way. It started out amicable and then acted like Matt almost forced her to keep doing the same thing they were already doing for 8 years to this point. No need for such grandstanding if its just you getting tired of doing something. I guess that's women for ya, even the "based" ones often have some kind of issues. Doesn't help that she seems like a blowhard. I also fail to see how continuing as she already was would "compromise her principles", but whatever.
Edit: Apparently there's been an update from the chick's side. Suddenly it makes more sense why this parting was not as amicable as it should have been, apparently it was over a pay/work dispute between them.
Yup, my thoughts exactly. It's hilarious, she's massively based on some things...and pretty much a feminist on others, and gets in bitchfits from time to time. Not on the show thankfully, but she's a lunatic on Twitter. Which is hilarious, but still troubling.
Where do you see that? I'm not seeing it on Twitter.
Lol, apparently it looks like she deleted it before I could archive it.
Here's the copy-pasted text I still have on my nitter page:
Rebecca @Blondes_tweets 12m
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A real shame that this institution of a show fell apart over 5%.
I'm surprised that their split was 50/50 up until this day.
I suspect it was a remnant of when the show began 8 years ago when they were single and childless.
I can see how Matt would grow resentful over time considering he's doing all the background work while Rebecca , as the pretty talent, shows up twice a week for 5 hours and couldn't even commit to the whole show once she became a mother.
That being said, Matt also has YT creator disease where you wonder what he does all week and claims to be doing days upon days of show prep.
In the end, Matt needs the show more than Blonde. Blonde is a retired conservathot-turned-tradwife&SAHM with wealthy offscreen husband.
Matt is the breadwinner for his wife and family who needs to do the YT grind for another two decades or get a real job.
This is short-sighted on his part because without Blonde he's probably going to end up having audience members drifting away. Their dynamic made the whole show.
I will voice my indifference, and really more like relief, that she's leaving. I completely dropped the stream they did together after the 2022 midterms because Blonde became a blackpilled crybaby and I couldn't stand it. I like Matt, not Blonde, even though I agree with plenty of her more edgy opinions, and I will continue to stick around and enjoy his voice on things. He's very normie-friendly, and an excellent weapon to use against the establishment and draw in people sitting in the middle-ground of the culture war.
That's part of why I value having Blonde there as part of the Sunday show. Rope people in with Matt's short form content and once they're on board they get curious and tune into a live stream and get exposed to Blonde.
Yep, and I'll be one of them. I listened to the Sunday show mainly because blonde was on it. Matt alone is boring as fuck. Blonde made it watchable. Now that she's gone I'm not going to bother with it anymore.
Cood catch. Man, it's a real shame if it fell apart over business matters, not that there's really a good way for it to happen.
OOOOOF. If true...pretty much what I expected, but terrible, terrible look.
AKA, trying to get out in front of Matt reasonably stating the truth, sounds like.
"whaa, whaa, I'm a victim." As she goes on to say, and as everyone knows, Matt was doing most of the work. This was cumulative frustration, I'm guessing, and not 'wow, how could you hurt your foot.'
AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Like I said, I like her, but she's insane and spoiled, and pretty much a feminist on certain issues.
She's literally whining about having to read super chats, brings up her kids as an excuse (that's her life situation to solve, and I think this show is basically her full time job, once [now twice...well now zero] times a week), and then says he wants more effort.
Also, 50/50 doesn't surprise me, because Matt seems like that kind of guy...but he was massively overpaying her. Jesus.
As expected, this was an epic bitchfit from Blonde. Sad. Way to throw away a golden opportunity because you're spoiled.
And she goes on to say she's bored. Man, we'll wait and see what Matt has to say, although I expect him to be nice about it. But this is why you shouldn't respect women. I knew this was what she was like but...wow.
Her counterpoint was to take over his show. She's lost the plot. She's in her own little world, holy crap.
So, my first instinct was correct. MASSIVE FUCKING WOMAN MOMENT.
Yeah, cause it sounds like you're dead wrong, by your own arguments.
...
Man. Poor Matt.
Hmm, that sounds familiar. There's another legal contract that you should never sign with a woman. It's on the tip of my tongue...
Why would you do that if you're already bored with the news?
Her longform interviews showed she had some more esoteric interests outside of the usual conservative ragebait newscycle: economics, motherhood, feminism, the JQ, white identitarianism, homesteading, tradwife stuff, oddities, etc.
I don't think it would last between YT ToS and her inconsistent work ethic, but it would be a change.
The movie review section on their show was also her brainchild because Matt was such an uncultured spaz who hadn't seen any classic pop culture movies to understand passing references. The OG segment before they turned it over to audience participation was Rebecca making Matt watch and review one of her seminal movie picks.
Matt's taste in movies is such shit. If a movie doesn't have some kind of underline philosophy or "make him think" afterwards he hates it. I started to lose respect for Matt when the movie reviews started because they pretty much put his elitist mindset on blast.
OTOH, it was interesting to watch a robot review classic movies that you enjoyed where they themselves are completely devoid of nostalgia.
It reminded me of excitedly showing a buddy in grad school Zoolander for the first time. A beloved meme classic from high school somehow turned into 90 minutes of awkward silence a decade later.
I don't see the pay cut thing either other than some rando speculating deep in the comment tree.
I knew Matt’s shitty Conan review would bite him in the ass, but I didn’t think it would be like this.
Shame, I like watching Matt’s videos and I don’t plan on stopping that anytime soon, but I do appreciate Blonde’s less restrained inputs on the podcast, because sometimes the “nuance” Matt shows can be a bit grating when he clearly knows the reality of the situation.
I think Matt is probably much more in the right than Blonde though, as her deleted tweets come off as more entitled bitchfit trying to scrape together a victim narrative than actual unfair treatment by Matt.
I would say Blonde taking 50/50 is crazy when she does so much less work than Matt, but the reality is that she might be bringing the boys to the yard so to speak LOL
I was an O and A fan, I'm used to break-ups. But why do I have to live in a world where I have to be used to long-term duos breaking up?
Hopefully no one fucks a tranny, beats their wife or photographs a rabid sheboon in Times Square this time.
Don't forget photographing a coworker taking a shit.
Edit - I listened to Matt's show and there are real parallels to the O&A show. Especially the let's do it on-air vs off-air argument.
I watched Matt's stream on Rumble.
I haven't watched Matt & Blonde in a long time.
The Rumble chat was pretty much 100% pro- Matt and way more normie-pilled than I remember. Same with all the callers except one guy who mildly pushed back on Matt denying an ultimatum was given or that he refused to compromise or counteroffer at all.
Disappointed tbh. I don't think his remaining audience is dissident or edgyboi enough to keep me around.
For posterity, Blonde tweeted today archive that her 50/50 split from the show was just over 40k for '22 an '23.
This is interesting context considering Matt was making 144k/yr for the time he was with Tenet media, which would be 3.5x more.
The Matt & Blonde show only grossing 80k annually (after YT's cut) is lower than I would've expected.
I can't imagine that Matt's solo YT vids with a few tens of thousands of views make much either.
It's pretty hard to live off 40k a year for 8-9 years with a wife, two kids and a mortgage without another side hustle.
I recall a few years back when Matt made an on-air veiled threat that he would "go get a real job to support my family" if listener support didn't improve.
I said I'd try to withhold judgement, but based on the alleged deleted Tweets from Blonde...
This sounds like the woman moment to end all women moments.
I think it's more like Matt having the Tenet media paycut finally catch up with him.
He was clearing something like 144k for a single one-hour livestream a week and two weekly vids. Not to mention the remaining revenue from their ongoing Sunday independent shows.
He decided to try to renegotiate terms, which was within his rights and had a strong case.
But Rebecca was already half checked out and didn't need the money.
By trying to claw another 10%, he may have killed the golden goose.
I do have to wonder if it'll be worth it in the long run for him. I dunno how many people can replace Blonde. She can say some shit that would get 90% of people immediately banned, like "We should kill all these drag-in-school queers"-level shit, somehow get away with it, and reel herself back in before she really goes off. I dunno how she does it, but in almost a decade, I don't think a single issue the show has ever had was related to something she said. It'd be very easy for a new cohost to try to replicate that and fuck it all up.
This is the most accurate assessment of what has happened here.
More archiving for posterity
Alleged photo of Blonde's sprained ankle
Description of the injury
It sounds like they just had a disagreement about what the show should actually be about. Matt wants issue by issue current events and she wants... I dunno, to write a book or a Substack if she wants to focus on specific topics exclusively. Recurring podcasts aren't really suited to what she describes.
The fact that he tried to decree that she stay right until the end of the show & all the superchats also shows there was more longstanding acrimony over things other than money or editorial control.
It was always unprofessional that Blonde couldn't commit to the full 2.5 hour show on Sundays because of breastfeeding, sick children, old school incompetent childrearing husband, wanting to put her kids to bed, etc.
But in the last few years of the show, Blonde's identity as a mother eclipsed her need to be a conservative thot influencer.
When Matt gave an ultimatum between the show and her very young children & identity as a mother, he knew what he was doing.
It’s weird to me that Blonde is treating “putting her children to bed” as a valid excuse for leaving the show early. Her husband can’t do that one or two nights a week?
I think it started with anxiety that she felt her baby couldn't go the 3 hours without breastfeeding.
But it did seem like misplaced separation anxiety for someone who is otherwise home with their children 24/7.
Then maybe she should have quit instead of dragging the acr along?
Again, for posterity, someone on Blonde's Twitter asked if there was any hope of burying the hatchet with Matt.
Her answer: Never
Apparently she did at least watch some of Matt's Sunday call-in stream where for 4 hours, he had "his balls licked" by "gay minorities" dumping on her.
She was also upset Matt leaked their texts and subsequently implied that he cropped out some of her replies that changed the narrative.
Edit: I, Hypocrite (Lyndon Perry) covered the drama on Monday on his Rumble show The Daily Cope. After he watched the segment of Matt's stream where he showed some of their texts, Perry surmised by the cropping that Matt had edited out some of his own unfavorable responses.
Blone seems to confirm this fact in this tweet, alleging that Matt left out his own reply forbidding her from appearing in HIS CHAT during his Sunday show once she declined to join him on stream for a final show.
Blonde implies she hoped that they'd end things on mutually vague Twitter posts and leave it at that. She states that she released her statement Saturday to get ahead of the narrative once she got the feeling Matt was going to frame things his own way, release texts and box her out from replying.
She also implies that she has "10 years worth of mutually assured destruction" messages she could make public herself, but doesn't think that could be right and just wants this to be over.
She also makes reference to the audience basing their opinions on "10 years worth of carefully crafted personas", implying Matt is much different behind the scenes IRL.
Unfortunately, it's turned into full on internet bickering now.
Blonde said she was done, then rewrote and posted the stuff she'd said in the deleted texts, and Matt responded, and there's back and forth stuff. Blonde says she won't defend herself, then posts more stuff. Matt is being more reasonable, in my opinion, but still bitchy. And as most of the people in both comments point out, this doesn't belong in the public, and it's unfortunate that it got to this. And Blonde is 100% the one who took it public like this.
Blonde archive here. Matt here.
EDIT: Man, this is so lame. Blonde was all up in Matt's Twitter arguing with him, when she's the one who again restarted the topic...and now deleted all her tweets to him. So she stirred up drama, then won't even stand by it. Really lame. She keeps posting and deleting stuff, and keeps saying she won't talk about it.
Matt is streaming his side right now.
I think it sounds like he was a bit over-reacting with the sprained ankle incident, but Blonde definitely was out-of-line with the Twitter posts. She has lost my respect.
Her first post was bad enough. The other one going into more detail just made her look insane. Which we already knew, but it's still a shame.
Heck, as she was talking about a week or two ago, she's ghosted a boyfriend she lived with. She has some issues. She brought some spice to the show, and was right about some things, but she was never stable. It just finally turned on Matt. And, as I said in some other comments, although I am on his side here, he brought some of it on himself too, by his inability to read the room, and fucking up interpersonal shit.
But, yeah, Blonde shit the bed here. And is probably too narcissistic to even realize.
Yeah, there were definitely multiple moments throughout her appearances on the show where she appeared very unstable and did not even show any sense of remorse for her unhinged actions (the ghosting of one of her boyfriends was pretty damn insane). She admits that she is guilty of being a woman, but just gives in to those feminine tendencies that she claims to despise rather then try to overcome them.
Decent, if in some places biased summary.
His take on her ankle was super autistic, that's where I'd lay most of the criticism I have for him. He fucked up on the interpersonal level, and certainly shares some of the blame for blowing up that relationship, although I think Blonde's resulting behavior was certainly worse than his. And, yeah, he let some stuff bubble for a while, instead of confronting it directly. He definitely contributed to the mess.
I think they both had events, not just him. And, at least according to him, he was active in the conversation too, he just wanted to talk, not text. You make it sound like he was unresponsive (and you're basing this on his stream), when that's the opposite of what he said.
Blonde was massively overpaid, which is not to say she didn't contribute. She did, and will be missed. Also, it was an ongoing and long running joke that she was lazy and unmotivated...and that was before she clearly got more lazy and unmotivated. Asking her to be more engaged is, in my opinion, not an unreasonable ask. Again, I appreciated her contributions, but there were clearly issues there.
Good, and good. The hatred the movie reviews got was basically the only redeeming feature of that bit.
Agreed, the more I think about it, the more I see the ankle thing as a very autistic reaction by Matt. Though to be fair, it was probably just the straw that broke the camel’s back, but that was partially on him for letting things get this bad rather than talking to Blonde about her laziness (in nicer terms than “laziness”). I think Blonde is going become more unstable and have more woman moments that will eventually lead her to dropping off the internet altogether.
This part isn't speculative. It's been a long time coming as he's been doing Bible Study for...I think it's been over a year at this point. Within the last month or two he confirmed on stream that he had adopted the faith.
I admittedly haven't watched live in a long time.
I was aware of his Bible Study classes but have never heard him self-describe as a Christian.
While I'm sure Blonde may have had some kind of hand in this it sounds like Matt was the main problem. It sounds like he was a control freak, and telling her he's not going to risk the livelihood of his family with her over 5% is fucking stupid.
I don't believe this. Blonde is very opinionated. There is no way she wouldn't have suggested some stuff to Matt.
Of course he wasn't going to attend.
Blonde said she didn't want to do the final show because she knew it would devolve into an argument/debate about who is at fault, and she would be right. Especially when the dumb superchats got involved. I'm also not really surprised to see him throw her under the bus with the audience. Matt seems like that much of a petty bitch.
I'm not surprised. It was Blonde's idea and you could tell he hated it. It also outed his taste in movies as shit. If a movie doesn't have some kind of underline philosophy or "make him think" afterwards he hates it. I started to lose respect for Matt when the movie reviews started because they pretty much put his elitist mindset on blast.
I'm kinda surprised how many people are 100% with Matt on this. He's completely right about the workload and fairness of their business partnership, but I think he fumbled handling the conflict really badly. I'm not gonna bother writing entire essays on Youtube personality dramas, but I think people are just being taken more with Matt's practical business attitude rather than listening to what's actually being said.
I'm on Matt's side but, yeah, he fumbled some things. Big time, on the interpersonal issues. I think Blonde was in the wrong, but Matt set the stage for some of that, and bears some of the blame.
And some people seem to be taking advantage of the drama to try to act like it was Blonde's edgy takes that were the problem, when it was an integral part of the show. I hope he doesn't let these people lead him away from edgy content. Although Matt did all the work, Blonde's presence did add spice, and she was an important (if overpaid) component. I do hope he tries to do something similar, and not just get someone who agrees with him. He needs the pushback.
I've commented a few times in the thread, but I'm definitely redpilled at how much pearlclutching there was over Blonde's racism/white nationalism/Nazism etc in the Twitter threads and the chat tonight.
There was way too much "Yay, the evil bigot lady is finally gone" for what's supposedly a based podcast. I thought the racism was supposed to be not a bug but a feature.
Maybe his audience has morphed into more centrist christcucks while I've been away. There were way too many "Me and my wife love you Matt!" chats, no balance and hardly anyone telling Matt that he fucked up, even a little.
I think that’s just because those of us who are pro blonde saw this happen, and realized he would swing back harder into his milquetoast takes and so there’s no reason to watch or comment.
I think Blonde posting everything to twitter after telling Matt she’d keep it low-key was pretty shitty, and deleted most of the sympathy I had for her. Matt can definitely be infuriatingly autistic about things, so I lay some blame about poor communication at his feet but I can also understand feeling betrayed by someone you had such a close working relationship with.
I’m not really surprised most viewers are siding with Matt, I’ve watched their show since Episode Zero and looking back there’s definitely been a marked decline in Blonde’s interest especially once she got married and had kids. I always got the impression her husband didn’t really want her doing the show.
Same.
I only checked Rumble but I didn't really come across any Matt alogs at all.
The only one was a drunk guy claiming Matt's YT mods banned him 4 years ago.
I didn't think Matt came off well tonight in his elaboration on his side of the story, though I'm biased and pro-Blonde.
His explanation regarding his skepticism re: missing their last show together and her seeking medical care for her sprained foot came off as a chud with his "We always go live together unless we're dead" meme.
He also was weasely with his "ultimatum that wasn't an ultimatum but I won't negotiate" circuitous arguments.
Essentially, he says that their business and friendship is ultimately irreparable because of the "betrayal" of her making a Twitter post when he said No. Which is middle school level drama.
He also heavily leaned on the whole "I appreciate everyone of you audience members and I'll never let you down/keep working hard for you, I consider all you callers friends" narratives.
Which to me, came off as wooden and disingenuous, but likely a ploy to circle the wagons of his paypigs. Which seemed to have been successful.
Yeah, as someone much more on the pro-Matt side of things (in style, content, effort, and loyalty, not always politics, to be fair), I think that was definitely his weakest take. It just came off as a little autistic, even. Yeah, Blonde is an admitted hypochondriac, but she really did hurt her foot, and you don't know the full extent of an injury until you get it checked out. "Yeah, she wasn't totally faking" or whatever, is not the angle to take. I don't think she was faking at all. She might not have been as badly injured as she thought, but she still had to go to the hospital...that's what ate up the time. It doesn't matter if her bones were shattered, or a ligament was torn or whatever. You don't know until after. She had a medical incident, and missed some of the show. It happens.
I think it was longstanding - and largely justified - frustration from Matt, but he certainly didn't handle it well. And, again, I say that as someone on his side. I think Blonde threw a bitchfit and blew up a good thing...but you could say similar things about Matt. Blonde had a woman moment...and Matt set up a perfect woman moment by not understanding things and being emotional himself. Whole thing was a mess.
I think that's pretty unfair, though. I think that's legitimately who Matt is, and he's shown that for years. And it's why people like him. Hell, that he was giving her an even split shows that he really values those around him, and that does include the chat.
You are conflating Matt's reverence for his audience with his passiveness/cowardice with his business dealings with his podcast partner.
He admitted tonight that the OG 50/50 split on debut in 2016 was because they started the project on equal footing.
Matt has always done more of the work. That hasn't changed recently.
The problem, much like one caller pointed out, was that his demands were reasonable in a vacuum, but the actual execution sucked.
You can't suddenly demand a change of terms after 8 years with your founding partner while giving no concessions/sweeteners, even if circumstances have changed.
It's doubly idiotic to introduce fundamental changes in the midst of a chick fight over absenteeism.
Who is this? Never heard of either of them before.
More archiving for posterity
Blonde claims she's 37 & her husband is 44
I thought her husband was even older than that.
Woman dips the second things get difficult, more at 11.
Stay tuned for her divorce and subsequent media tour where she dishes on the hidden dangers of right-wing media and tradwifery to eager female legacy journos.