Brother I feel that in my soul. And you just suck it up because your livelihood is on the line. When was the last time any of these fucks that just talk politics all day have to deal with that?
And as for the money. 50 million will have a man set for life. It may have been a raw deal given the scale, but it's still a shit ton of cash I'm never going to be given the chance to touch.
Until you start counting expenses for production itself to salaries and medical insurance that DW wasn't going to cover (that's over 4 years, mind you), along with the fact that
they would be the one owning his merch and everything he creates henceforth, including email list so he would have to rebuild Mug Club or its equivalent from scratch after he leaves, just like he finds himself doing now. That's not counting all the rest of the bullshit.
One would think they'd try to skip the part where they're trying to fuck him over if they thought of him as a friend.
People talk about negotiations with the presumption that they would've been willing to compromise in the first place. Maybe they would've, but we aren't going to find out since he reacted how he did, and most importantly he even recorded their CEO straight up admitting that they're punishing their creators on behalf of media platforms like it's a given, which is everything you need to know they're compromised, really. We all fucking know what happens when people go against the accepted narrative on these platforms.
I get it that they're in the business of making money and would rather do that than suck it up for the sake of
fighting the fight or adapt to not be at the mercy of these platforms, but it seems that Crowder naively thought it would be the latter with them until they approached him with their offer and conditions therein.
The proposition is thus: DW - Money > Values / Crowder - Money < Values
Then he’s been retarded this whole time.
Can you explain to me why he had his agent contact the Daily Wire to solicit an offer in October when he wasn’t announcing he was leaving The Blaze until mid December, and why would he solicit another contract, through an agent no less, in the first place instead of keeping his mug club bucks for himself?
It's not entirely clear to me who reached whom first, I would imagine DW was just one of the many either way, it's not
that important. His hesitation could just as well be explained by his temperament.
Mug Club has to be rebuilt now, all these people signed up to BlazeTV through him, and they didn't bother to keep track of who that was (likely deliberately, but either way because of this he's going to have issues reaching them). Likely he didn't want to do it and assumed DW has it all already figured out, so he might as well just roll with his bros there, but he got what he got instead. He expected a company that built a network resistant to the pressure from big tech, just to find out they would rather enforce their policies for the sake of profit.
It's all assumptions on my part, but I think my assessment is fair. I know it's popular to shit on Crowder because he's somewhat flamboyant and whatnot, but I think he's at least authentic.
I used to watch DW, even Shapiro, and sometimes it was entertaining, it's good background noise. I stopped eventually because they started sounding like milquetoast establishment republicans, and that's just boring if anything. Oh, and the fucking ads every 5 minutes.
Maybe in the end DW is a net good for the conservative movement despite the compromises they're making, I dunno. It's a slippery slope if anything.
Just to show where I stand on the two and where I'm coming from.
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