Just when things seemed to finally be quieting down for Steven Crowder in 2023, the drama is heating up again.
In January, after turning down a $50 million contract offer from Daily Wire, he picked a public fight with them, and came out on the wrong end of things.
A few months later, it was revealed his wife had left him, and then a home Ring camera video was released of him seemingly being abusive toward his 8-months-pregnant wife.
For awhile, every time Crowder posted a YouTube video or tweet, most of the comments were just trolling him.
But things have gotten a little better since then. He signed a contract with Rumble to produce content there, while still releasing a lot of the content on YouTube. The trolling comments on social media have mostly died down. His reputation is permanently harmed from that 1-2 punch of controversies (plus former employees coming forward to accuse him of abusive behavior), but it seemed like he'd be able to at the very least plod along and keep making money.
Well, once again the drama is starting, and it ain't pretty.
Mediaite released a bombshell article on July 20, with leaked information from Crowder staffers who were incredibly frustrated with him and the working environment at the show.
The most explosive allegations involve Crowder regularly pulling down his pants to expose himself to male employees at work, as well as him sending a picture of his penis via text message to one of these employees. All of the employees getting harassed this way are male. The females are apparently left alone. It is unclear if this is some kind of weird power trip, or if it's just Crowder's immaturity in playing a "joke" which nobody enjoys, or if he's a closet gay who is expressing his repressed homosexual feelings this way. Or it could be a combination of these things.
However, one thing is clear. Steven Crowder likes to expose his penis to male employees, and he does it a lot. Also in the article, Crowder allegedly complained that modern men have been socialized to not show affection to one another, and that he wished it was more like biblical times when men would often hug and put their hands on each other's thighs as a sign of friendship. That part especially sounds gay, if true.
It was then alleged that, upon Mediaite's article being published, Crowder freaked out, and went on a hunt for the mole in his company. He and company CEO Gerald Morgan Jr apparently had an NDA drawn up with a $100k penalty for anyone who violated it, and all employees were supposedly told it was mandatory to sign. Mediate claimed on July 27 that four employees quit over the NDA requirement.
It is also alleged that Crowder and Morgan Jr run the company like a cult, and that current employees are commanded not to trust or associate with former employees.
Crowder apparently had a rare moment of introspection in December 2020, and sent out an e-mail to staffers apologizing for his behavior, and claimed he would be retiring because he lacked the temperament to lead the company. He was then said to have checked into a psychiatric facility, and came out deciding to continue the show. This was two years before the controversies with Daily Wire and the wife video, and before his wife left him.
Today, Gerald Morgan Jr responded on Twitter to these articles, albeit almost 3 weeks later. I'll post those next.