re: Crowder had a huge melt over "Big Con" media.

I think Steven is dead on balls on accurate about all of this. These bs contracts that these conservative content makers are asked to sign essentially turns them into a weak arse Sean Hannitys. The contracts punishes them for saying anything that they don't like. And remember, these are consrvative media folks.

It actually shows how much you don't know about Israel-First Benny boy.

The redacted name looks like 2-4 letters long to me. Maybe DW but he said in the video they were inundated with these and there are many many entities trying to get into this space that you’ve never heard of.

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Jeremy goes through the offer sheet and breaks everything down, and explains it could have been negotiated.

It sounds like Crowder wanted a fully guaranteed contract no matter what. DW wasn’t willing to do that and Crowder was pissed.

Yeah, I see it a little differently now. If they are throwing around that kind of coin, the guy can't just take months off. That's not too much to ask. And instead of haggling over production, they were basically just throwing a huge lump out there and saying, continue to do the show as you want. All of that said, if Crowder is going to be super sensitive over censorship/control, it's probably just a bad fit to begin with. Why can't Crowder just continue to do his thing on Rumble? Does he not know how to monetize himself? I see shows with way less subscribers and I think they make a fortune off Rumble rants and Youtube chat stickers.

It is certainly possible that Crowder overreacted, but while it may seem that the starting offer was $12.5 million a year, that is not actually true. The offer included a 25% fee reduction if he was demonetized from Youtube. He hasn't been monetized on Youtube for years and DW knows that. So, the starting offer would actually be $9.375 million per year with that fee reduction. Still a pretty tidy sum, but not $12.5 million. Also, this seems like a very "bad faith" starting point by DW. Why include this in the offer when you know Crowder couldn't possibly abide by it?

Not only that, but the offer also made it clear that Crowder would be required to pay for the production of the daily show and not DW. So, the $9.375 million would have to pay for the production budget of his daily show. I have no idea what the budget of his show is, but I would assume that number isn't trivial.

Also, I feel like either the CEO of DW is a horrible businessman or he is lying. He keeps saying that Crowder doesn't know how profitable he is, but DW is willing to pay him $12.5 million or more a year in addition to the $100 million dollars or more to make the show happen with all the overhead. According to him, that would be enough money to put the rest of their content in jeopardy if the show doesn't make money. Again, that seems incredibly stupid to me if he is willing to spend $100 million on a show that no one knows is actually profitable and potentially screw over everyone else. That doesn't make sense to me

Just finished watching the whole thing and while I didn't really take a side yesterday with Crowders video, I feel like the DW draft terms were entirely reasonable for an opener.

Crowders position appears to be "I want full control to do whatever I want with no restrictions or guidance and I want all my money to be guaranteed." I understand at $50+ million, DW wants protections built into the contract that off set a loss of value.

To me it sounds like there's an arrogance and an ignorance on Crowders end where he feels like "hey I've built this huge audience, a huge brand and I don't want or need to be boxed in by controlling terms."

Crowder is also very disengenuous with respect to calling himself “self made”. He’s literally never done a single thing until RIGHT NOW that wasn’t initially funded entirely by another party. He literally admits he has no idea if his content is actually profitable or not because it’s never mattered.

I consider it to be bad faith because they included the fee reduction in the contract knowing it was going to activate from the beginning of the contract. This means that they were offering a contract that they knew or hoped they would never have to fully pay out. Maybe I am wrong about this, but it seems like a crappy starting point.

Crowder has tied himself to the fringe of the right too heavily to get any more money than that from anyone else. Joe Rogan got $100 million from Spotify and he is an exponentially more attractive talent with a far more mainstream product. Crowder expect more than that is…well, insane.