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.
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."