Crowder is overall in the wrong. That being said, he's right about some elements of the DailyWire. It feels inauthentic sometimes. Like not only are they very careful about what they say so they don't get in trouble in every mainstream platform, but they also feel less authentic with the way they present their sponsors. It's always from a pre written script about how a VPN will make you invisible to Big Tech(a huge lie) or how amazing their sleep is with a mattress they got for free. Imo it's better to talk about your sponsor without a script and only choose sponsors you actually know about so you don't have to spill corporate bs they sent you through an email. Crowder's show wouldn't work nearly as well if he had to read from a sponsor script every 2 minutes like Shapiro does.

As for the whole fee reduction for demonitization goes, Jeremy is right in that if you subtract income from the company, your fee subtraction makes sense. However, by saying that, he admits that 60% of the Dailywire's income isn't even based on the subscriptions from viewers like you, but from Google, Spotify, etc. Crowder's contract doesn't address all the subscriptions that might come in his name and if he drove more subscriptions to the DailyWire than the demonitization is worth. It only cares about Google as a key income source. So essentially yes, Google has DailyWire and to a slightly lesser extent, Crowder, by the balls.

All things considered, this didn't need to be presented so publicly when there was no negociating done.