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.
Matt is streaming his side right now.
- Rumble chat & callers are pretty much unanimously pro-Matt.
- Matt is on non-speaking terms with Blonde and expects it to be indefinite
- Matt plans on continuing Wed & Sat streams on his own, but no idea the format
- Matt was upset that Blonde informed him two hours before showtime Wed that she couldn't make it due to a presumed broken foot requiring an urgent care visit. He was resentful because he thought they had a pact to always show up for the stream "unless you're dead". He was pissed he had to do last minute show prep and stream alone. Her foot ended up being sprained, not broken. He thought it wasn't really an emergency and was annoyed when she ended up showing up at 9:10 pm EST asking to join the stream.
- Matt was annoyed , but they didn't talk for the next 48 hours because of his birthday and anniversary. She sent him a wall of texts on Saturday. He eventually got her on the phone. They talked about the future of their collaboration. Matt claims it wasn't an ultimatum, but he gave her "future terms" that at some point he wanted her to accept a new 60/40 split, to smile more and to be present for every minute of the show.
- Blonde took time & eventually counteroffered with the 55/45 split and more editorial control with choosing half the topics. Matt summarily rejected it, saying he wanted her to do more of her current work and couldn't trust her to do half his show.
- Blonde responded back at 10 pm MST, saying she was quitting but wouldn't '"smear him in a public statement". Matt asked her not to go public until the show tomorrow Sunday. Blonde proceeded to post her statement to Twitter.
- Matt says Blonde hasn't proposed any new topics/ideas to the show in ages.
- Matt says he should've nipped Blonde dipping out from the show early immediately at the time.
- Blonde approached Matt to resume the Wed show after the Tenet meltdown. Despite this, Blonde did no work for Wed and Matt prepped 100% of both.
- Matt claims never to have rejected a Blonde idea because there were never any proposed.
- Apparently a caller sent a wedding invitation to Matt. He didn't attend, but sent money.
- Matt feels the Twitter post was a fatal betrayal to their relationship/partnership. He didn't sleep last night.
- Matt claims if she'd showed tonight, they'd still be splitting 50/50.
- Matt is planning in the next week to reach out to all recurring subscribers to somehow outline a plan to make them whole.
- Matt got Dangerous Spaces / Tim in the divorce. He's working the call screener Discord tonight.
- Blonde's post-Tenet collapse idea to renew the show was an Internet Bloodsports revival with debates. She proposed it a few weeks ago but did no groundwork. She wanted to announce the new IBS and promote it on the show. Matt wouldn't let her until something was confirmed.
- Matt is doing a lot of simping to the audience: "I really appreciate all the years of support, I consider a lot of you callers friends, what Blonde did was disrespectful to you audience, she wouldn't come back to face you, etc"
- Matt seems to be claiming to be a new Christian. He claims this new occurrence is a "challenge from God" that he's looking forward to tackling.
- I may have missed a joke, but Matt insinuated that his current livestream studio was in his parents' house above their garage. He said his wife was with him there for the first 2 hours offstream as moral support.
- Matt says the Blonde experience has made him honestly leery to enter another business relationship with a woman.
- Matt showed some receipt texts as to their conversation Saturday that led to their cleavage. There was nothing particularly spicy.
- I saw several $100 superchats on Rumble alone, so the revenge stream was lucrative for Matt.
- Matt wants to keep Hoax Hate. Movie Reviews are gone. Plans new intro sounder. He had already commissioned several artists to make designs for new show merch that he will pay but can't sell.
- One of his sponsors superchatted in with support .
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hopefully no one fucks a tranny, beats their wife or photographs a rabid sheboon in Times Square this time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Matt said he's going live at 9 pm EST tomorrow to tell his side without Blonde
- he wanted them to do a final show together to explain to their audience, but she declined
- speculation in the X threads that Blonde wants to push the JQ & Matt is uncomfortable
- unsourced claims that Matt's wife is Jewish
- speculation that Matt is a worse position financially given the collapse of Tenet, a SAHM, two young kids and a relatively bigger mortgage
- speculation that Matt is more beholden to YT's ToS because he needs the money more than her
- Blonde is married to an older retired vet who seems wealthy, she was continuing to do the show out of tradition
- a surprising amount of the X commenters and supposed viewers uncomfortable with her white nationalism politics considering she's been like this for years. I guess many fans side with Matt's boring, milquetoast, toeing the line takes.
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.
I don't see the pay cut thing either other than some rando speculating deep in the comment tree.
I think it's less of a distinction that hypertension is more common in blacks. And more of research suggesting that different epigenetics in the black population makes specific drugs more effective than others to treat the condition.
The joke I saw go the most viral was Trump’s "you could still be the 1st woman President" to Schumer.
I don't get it and didn't find it funny (besides Trump insulting Chuck to his face while he was sitting directly to his left).
Is the whole joke simply a jab at Schumer's support for LGBT bs?
Iversen is very Pro-Palestine slanted much like a lot of the moderate/former left - Grunwald, Dore, Blumenthal, etc.
I like her coverage on occasion, but she is reflexively anti-Israel but without being pilled enough to address the JQ.
Also some forms of high blood pressure.
And pseudofolliculitis barbae (chronic razor burn).
Imagine my shock that it's a Paki leading the charge.
I don't understand the actual logistics behind the Biden/Harris campaign donations having to be returned.
I've never heard of anyone receiving a refund on a political donation. AFAIK, you don't get refunded even if the candidate steps down.
Is the idea that some of the campaign donations are still only pledges that haven't been collected?
Does it have something to do with suped PACs that may only release money on a discretionary basis?
I understand the legal argument that funds donated to Biden/Harris should only be donated to their campaign. But I'm sure the DNC could figure out some creative accounting to shuffle money around rather than return it.
Or is it a case of dead money where the money doesn't get returned but can only be used to pay off Biden/ Harris debts rather than be used by another frontrunner on new spending?
Poutine made from shredded mozzarella instead of cheese curds should also be a hate crime.
99% of White Canadians have never set foot in Yellowknife.
You are really underselling the remoteness of this Arctic capital despite your own experience visiting Nunavut (which is less likely to suffer from mass immigration due to even smaller settlements and existing almost entirely as an Arctic archipelago with air access only).
Yellowknife should only be White and Inuit, with the White population mostly being transient working in resource extraction.
There's absolutely no reason that the front of an evacuation queue should be low class and low skilled blacks.
The Canadian version of Shark Tank is on Season 19 on CBC, the government Pravda TV network that no one watches.
I was confused as well seeing him on it and assumed the show was long canceled.
Wikipedia has Liu listed as a Season 19 "guest" host/Dragon.
Yeah, I was going to comment on this as well.
This Canadian version of Shark Tank called Dragon's Den actually predates the American one by 3 years (began in 2006, itself is an international franchised concept coming out of Japan from 2001).
Two of the OG hosts on US Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary and Robert Hrejavec, were directly lifted from the existing Canadian version.
Check out the two photos of "Eskimos" at the bottom of the CNN article queuing to be evacuated during 2023 summer wildfires.
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.