The great Achilles heel of the far-right is that fascists and other stripes of authoritarians are cantankerous people. It often takes very little to get them into ugly fights with each other over stupid stuff. So perhaps it's no surprise that two of the biggest grifters in the right-wing media ecosystem — Ben "Female Sexual Arousal Is A Myth" Shapiro and Steven "Marie Curie Was Fictional" Crowder — are in a very public, very dumb feud right now. As Nikki McCann Ramirez at Rolling Stone explains, Shapiro offered to bring the popular online show "Louder With Crowder" to Shapiro's Daily Wire network. Crowder, however, was offended that the contract "would require him to actually make content and drive revenue for the company." He griped over contract language that reduced his payout "if his show was demonetized, suspended, or removed from any major hosting and video sites," Daily Beast reporter Justin Baragona added, noting that Crowder has a history of "gleefully spewing homophobic, racial, and misogynistic slurs on his program, prompting YouTube to repeatedly pull advertisements and demonetize his content on the platform."
Crowder, for those who are lucky enough to have never heard his name, rose to fame by being especially cringeworthy in the crowded field of professional right-wing trolling. He plays heavily into the stereotype of the loudmouth ignoramus who spouts off in class about how slavery wasn't so bad or corners women at the bar to rave about how their entire sex is insufficiently grateful to men. He is, quite literally, the dude in that "debate me, bro" meme.
