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.
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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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.