BuzzFeed struggles to sell hit YouTube show Hot Ones.

Several parties are interested, but bulk at $70 million price tag.

In this episode, we're going to tell you the four reasons why we think it's not selling.

And we're going to make predictions on what we think the future of Hot Ones is.

Whether it sells or not, we think this could be the beginning of the end for hot ones. And on this

episode, if you make it to the deep end, you're going to get some hot takes from our showrunner,

Hot Take Dave. Oh, no. Strike one.

Two more strikes and you're off. All right. If you make it the deep end, let us know.

I'll be honest, I was actually kind of surprised to see this headline that BuzzFeed was looking to sell Hot Ones. In my mind, like Hot Ones is just the premier YouTube show.

It's always intrigued to me that it is owned by First We Feast, which was owned by Complex,

which then got bought by BuzzFeed. And then BuzzFeed sold Complex, but kept First We Feast.

That's right. Yeah, it's all muddled. Watching Sean Evans on that show, he feels so like it's his show,

but it's not his show. He feels like an independent creator.

Yeah.

Especially when he has other creators on the show.

Like, there's actually a lot of YouTube-centric creators who've been on the show, whether

it's like Marquez or Philoferenko or Emma.

Like, it feels YouTube at the same time that it feels traditional Hollywood.

I think what was really interesting was when we were at a Chargers game here in L.A.

And we went with YouTube and Sean Evans was there as well.

And they announced that his presence at the game on the Jumbotron, they said the host of the largest show on YouTube, Sean Evans.

And the entire arena erupted.

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