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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
All of that stuff *could* have been negotiated, but it’s weird they keep flipping back and forth between “he was a friend for over a decade” and “this is a business deal let’s give him the lowest offer available.” Not a good way to attract top-tier talent in my opinion, but they can run their company however they want I guess.

I don’t believe the “transparency” shtick because this story would have fizzled out after a day of random YouTube comment speculating, and instead they’ve blown this up and dedicated hours upon hours of podcasts and tweeting attacking him (with advertisements in their attacks, of course). He’s basically said nothing in defense or criticizing them as far as I know (minus the gossipy phone call, but TDW seems happy to report on other leaked material and celebrity divorces, so you reap what you sow and whatnot).

Several of their staff have cussed him, insulted his fans, said he has no integrity, etc. especially Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh. Watch Candace’s tirade on TimCast from last night, and you’ll see what I mean. She makes several suspect claims like “his coworkers at the Blaze HATED him” which has no evidence to support. 

The people Crowder is friends with at TDW have been mysteriously silent or had to remove their tweets in support of him. I think that’s probably the biggest thing I take issue with. It’s clear they give their podcasters talking points, and then gang up on one guy when most of these people don’t know him or weren’t even involved in contract negotiations. I haven’t seen much kindness from any of them, even before his follow-up video dropped. Also, his new mug club thing for now is just an email list. No monetization as of yet.
gpt
I get where you’re coming from. I think that Daily Wire put business in front of friendship in this instance. Friendship makes a difference, but ultimately money talks. You can agree or disagree with that, but that’s how DW runs their show. 

I don’t know what would’ve happened if they didn’t respond, but DW doesn’t seem to want to leave that up to chance. Better to take a stand than let fate decide (leaks happen all the time these days). I don’t think the 6 million Crowder subs would’ve let it go that easily, tbh. 

I think Candace has been very harsh throughout the process, but her opinions are her opinions. I don’t think anyone is forcing her to say this stuff, she is doing it on her own. Ben is very fair and level-headed in my opinion, he hasn’t cussed at or insulted Steven. He did say that Steven has no integrity, but that’s because of the phone recording, so I understand where he’s coming from. Matt’s tweets have also been quite fair from what I’ve seen.

It’s natural to defend the company that you’re working at, and what’s what the DW people are doing. It sucks that they can’t support Crowder, but you can’t expect to go against your own company and not get reprimanded for it.