INTERNET NEWS - Not that I followed up on this story because I was a big fan of Steven Crowder's heavy conservative commentary. AS a matter of fact, since I dropped out of the YouTube platform over six years ago, I've found it irrelevant to see the over-produced segments of Crowder's PodCast show, seeing only memes that pop up on Facebook or are text to me through friends that see is "Change My Mind" picture that is photo shopped with some cryptic attack on the Democrats or the woke society. Outside of that, the only reason I started to investigate what had happened recently between Crowder and an Internet Hosting company, The Daily Wire, was because of a small segment of news that popped up on my Rumble.com account and how Crowder alleged that he was being screwed over a contract that was tossed at him by the President of the Wire at the end of his current contract. Obviously, Crowder's complaint against his bosses have come off more as "bitching" than actually having something to complain about.
The Daily Wire [DW] is a proven internet company that has does one hell of a job advertising, promoting and projecting solid content to a large number of people through the use of PodCast's and other internet mediums since it's inception. They're not certainly a juggernaut that has absolute sovereignty over other organized internet companies, but they do have some of the most well known conservative PodCaster's in the business, including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro [who is a part owner/creator] and others. The team at the DW definitely knows their shit when it comes to working with the right people at the right time and having Crowder in their organization was no exception. Actually, Crowder was one of their biggest names having the highest numbers watching his weekly show and tuning in on his zany antics on making the Left and the woke crowd often look absurd. His ten year friendship with the CEO of DW helped him climb to the top of the companies charter.
But the presumed merits of Crowder's alleged "getting screwed over on" complaint are both pretty simple and silly at the same time. Firstly, the DW offered him $50Million dollars on a four year deal, with another $25Million, if he agreed on a two-year extension to follow that initial contract. The CEO at DW, Jeremy Boreing, openly stated that the first deal sent to Crowder was fully negotiable, but Crowder instantly lost his shit and began to claim that conservative new agencies were conspiring to control how over conservative PodCaster's might be used and controlled through contracts that plan to heavily fine current and potential future platforms for any suspensions of show's or episodes, due to violating platform guidelines on a constant basis. Now, remember that the DW isn't a streaming service, which is hard to comprehend, and mostly all of their clients use YouTube as their primary source for presenting their shows.
Crowder has a clear history of having segments of his show either being muted or shut down on YouTube, due to promoting content that violates YouTube's heavy policies against bullying, passing disinformation on Covid, attacking strong supporters of the Left [Democrats], etc. According to the first contract forwarded to Crowder for review, the DW would fine him $100K for each day his site was shut down or an episode failed to post. The contract further stipulated that Crowder would also be financially responsible to pay his production team out of the $50Million given to him. So, with Crowder expecting to expand his horizons with a new platform called MudBugs program set to launch this year, I guess it was assumed by Crowder that the DW would cover the bills of paying off his employees or add more money to his contract to help him pay for his team. In my opinion that's a little bit much to ask, as Crowder's team are not on a contract basis with the DW.
So what does Crowder do next?...well, he records a phone call with his friend of ten years, Boreing from the DW, and puts him on the spot, and then releases the recordings to prove to his employees and fans that the DW was out to screw him and any future potential team hired to cover his spot or anyone else's spot, if they refuse to sign the contracts that are presented to them. Talk about "who is screwing who" - in my opinion, Crowder has crossed the line and is making an ass of himself, trying to also present himself as "the only Podcast messiah" that can prevent other PodCasters from "falling into the trap" if he doesn't get his way. Candace Owens made a video statement and was also interviewed extensively about this matter. She truly didn't take sides, but she did note that Crowder was over-extending his allegations and that he was only crying out like a disgruntled ex-employee who wasn't fired. She said that there were better ways to confront the DW CEO and work things out and that Crowders impulsive attempts to "draw-the-line" were just for show.
I have a PodCast show called the Q108.1 Internet Radio Show on Rumble.com that has about 2700 followers and growing. I'm sure that with just $1Million that I could present a better show with daily episodes, so I'm not sure why Crowder feels that he needs more than $50million to run his show, pay his employees, and create his content. It sounds more to me that his recent success has gotten to his head and now he thinks he knows everything about being a bonafide PodCast commentator worth $110Million. As PodCasters, we all have a following when we launch, so I'm not sure why one person [like Crowder] believes that his show, with a particular element of dry humor, must be considered the best that the DW has to offer. Everyone presenting some sort of online new coverage has stated that Crowder has made plenty of good money thus far in his tenure as a commentator. If he wants to move on and be on his own, making the type of money that the DW has offered, then why doesn't he just split ways and do it?
Well, there's nothing out there saying that Crowder hasn't pushed onto his new show and is just building hype to completely absolve any chance of the DW trying to hold him to any part of his past contract. This drama story is pretty silly, but I intend to follow it to see how this thing unfolds with the mainstream press, and of course, the online PodCast world. To be continued...
