So, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news.

And I got an extra, extra large show for you today. So how about you buckle up, hit that like

button. Otherwise, we'll punch you in the throat. And let's jump into it. Starting with,

in big internet and business drama news, we need to talk about kick. Right. And they're the

streaming platform that's kind of known for two things. One, it's where seemingly a lot of people go and they get kicked off of the other platforms.

And two, they have just thrown down so much damn money for streamers.

I mean, we're talking about reportedly millions and millions of dollars lowering some of the biggest names over to the platform.

But now they're in the news for a completely new reason. Right, because you had a former kick employee by the name of Melissa posting a video with some serious accusations about the company's leadership and staff.

With Melissa in the video talking about how hostile the culture the company is as a whole.

There was just a consistent disrespect to other people's opinions and beliefs.

And this went as far as to just consistently hearing the F-sler. And not even just in jest, like as a

joke, it was specifically, you know, targeted towards people that it was supposed to discriminate

against. Even so much as to walk past the socials room, the guys that run the, you know, kick

streaming and kick community, and hear the N-word just dropped. Hard-R. And I'm like, what is this office?

How, and they had the executive, like the upper management was in the room.

But they're also claiming that staff members would do things like laughing as they deliberately

misgender trans streamers.

So Melissa saying that her decision to actually leave came down to two incidents that happened

in her final weeks.

One involved the case of a streamer with special needs whose contract was up for renewal. And when Melissa followed up with the streamers

pointed contact at kick to check how it was going, she said, when I asked about this streamer's

contract renewal, he had a smirk on his face and goes, I decimated his rate. And this was apparently

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