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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Steven ain’t a younger upstart. He wanted *Millions* guaranteed no matter what happened. If he gets banned off of all platforms, he still gets paid. If he gets into a horrible accident and literally cannot do his show for a year, he still gets paid. What he wanted was unreasonable for DW To take on. Ontop of that, DW is trying to become a legitimate company, Steven just doesn’t fit. He’s always been the loud mouthed rebel who’s fighting uphill both ways.  I say this not having any problem with Steven, but he dropped a private call and continued to complain, it doesn’t paint him in a good light to me.
gpt
The problem is that, as Jeremy said, the contract was to get the ball rolling even if the standards were weak. You don't make these kind of deals with friends you make honest contracts. Jeremy basically did a 'big ask' attempt

&gt; If he gets into a horrible accident and literally cannot do his show for a year, he still gets paid.

I haven't seen much saying this.

A point Shad made was that these standards seem good to ordinary people, in practice they just aren't. 

As the contract started out, you can see at 24:50 of the video that renewal of the contract is purely in DW's right not Stephan's. That's a massive red flag.