YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star::YouTube has blocked Russell Brand from making money off its platform and the BBC pulled some of his shows from its online streaming service in the wake of rape and sexual assault allegations against the comedian-turned-influencer.
The ‘lots of money’ you’re taking about is literal nickel and dime shit to these people. I admit, it’d be actually exciting to think some aged celebrity has “rocked” the establishment to the point of evoking a retaliatory smear campaign. That would be actually interesting. But really they just don’t care. There isn’t nary one executive that’s lost an ounce of sleep over this. They don’t care about those women (they never did), they don’t care about Russell (they never did). What happened is he came up at the end of some conference call somewhere—that Brand’s allegedly yadda, yadda—and they were like “yeah I don’t care at all, just do whatever fuck ‘em.”
There have been documented cases of rich people being informed they will have accusations thrown at them in the public eye if they do not pay out. Every time a public figure criticizes a politician to the point of possibly swaying some public opinion, I promise you that their team is working overtime to find any dirt possible to shut that person up. There’s a whole industry around it where firms are paid big money to dig up (and less scrupulously, fabricate) shit on people who go against their interests. It’s not that far fetched.
Christ you have a conspiracy for everything don’t you? Lemmy’s a small place. But this is very informative about your other comments.