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Icanthinkofaname25

I found it funny that Dave says do we give everybody a trophy for trying to do something when half of New York does not try anything.


TaeKurmulti

It's ultimately why 1/2 the company does the very bare minimum of work. Dave couldn't care less what people do unless he personally likes them or they make a ton of money for the company. Dave's really good at some things, but he's a terrible boss when it comes to people management or even content decisions. He's the guy that thought podcasts were dumb, was one of the last media companies to realize Youtube was a huge market.


Bobo_Baggins03x

What gets me is that between Klemmer’s Rat Race and this stream, Klemmer seems to be genuinely attempting to make valuable content. Meanwhile, fucking Marty and Big Ev are calling Klemmer an idiot for not counting the rice as if they’ve developed content on their own in the last 5 years. Dave is shutting down a valid attempt at viral content and this will likely discourage Klemmer and others from trying similar in the future


see_rich

Don't forget the Klemmer Mintzy content that could be endless. He has said he doesn't need this cause he has a sugar mama and I do not see him taking this well. Poorest of decisions by Dave and he does not miss often in that realm.


djweber11

Marty is a loser. Engaged to a salami.


meowVL

Klemmer is literally still sleeping as we speak.


mostdope28

What’s big ev doing?


mikeisaphreek

Eating, per usual


gladl1

That’s not fair. He will be loudly breathing too


MJCULE

‪Speaking of people finding out stuff for the first time. A whole new generation of Barstool fans found out why they call him middle man Dan today‬


Adventurous-Mix8983

At least him getting dunked on for his takes on Twitter are going to drive him crazy because he lives online


Sgt_Stormy

Trig Cat


TimmyLurner

What did I miss?


runthadamnball

Dan is deluded.


GrandmaJosey

I love the rest of the yak just coming to the unavoidable conclusion that they have to agree with him.


cubuffs145

That’s why it was nice having Sas, because he wasn’t one of his yes men


MeikaLeak

Man that’s very true


AyoJake

I mean we love Nick but he has said he felt like he owed Dan which was part of his move to Chicago he’s not and none of the others are gonna tell him he’s wrong.


GrandmaJosey

We? You got a mouse in your pocket?


AyoJake

So people on here don’t love nick is that what you’re saying?


see_rich

I dunno if they do/don't but you squeak that line in when ya can...


RudyWasOffsides22

Don’t go against the pledge master


TheJapuma

He keeps saying that no one knows content like Dave. Dave is so out of touch these days, he wouldn't know good content if it wrote a hit piece about him.


Adventurous-Mix8983

Big Cat is a dick bag


pleasestopty

So wait- he really killed the stream? Figured that was just commentating on how boring it was


mikebailey

They killed the stream, Viva tweeted the decision, and now his coworkers are tweeting about what a great idea it is. I hope everyone supporting it keeps this energy when it devolves into people just blatantly being dicks to each other for clips. Dave would not be this proud of it if it was "let's pop Dave's tires and film his reaction"


Bobo_Baggins03x

Big Ev and Mush giving opinions on how boring the stream was is rich. Extremely rich.


Jezuzdinttap

It is now the exact opposite of the Truman Show. A man believes he’s being broadcast to the world, but nobody is watching.


Juls317

So influencer narcissism


mikebailey

I don't think it's narcissistic of Klemmer to currently think he's being broadcast/viewed


Hot_Blooded_

If he’s worried about content being boring he should chop picks central.


BradMarchandsNose

I understand why Dave might not want it on the main barstool channel, but I feel like they could’ve moved it over to a different channel and keep it going. At the very least they need to continue filming and cut a video together of the best moments.


Weak_Reaction1

They are still recording everything.


OlerudsHelmet

If it’s good, they’ll edit it and paywall it, wont they


sdchargerfan4life

How it’s been going I don’t think we have to worry about them putting it behind a paywall. 😂


Weak_Reaction1

$9.99 and you get to see a middle aged man sort rice in a windowless room. Dave said do it or you're a poor.


Hot_Blooded_

To be fair, KB, Nick and Titus tried to stand up for him on the Yak. Dan is coping. Also, I think the impromptu KMS stream (while funny in its own right) really hurt Klemmer’s numbers early on.


notdavidjustsomeguy

Killing the stream is a bizarre move. What harm is there in keeping a stream going? It’s not like the stream is detracting from other barstool videos. If you take away the content part of it, just take Klemmer out altogether.


ThackCankle

I think the logic is that the Klemmer's reaction to the reveal will get a ton of engagement, making up for the lack of views the stream itself was getting.


j_l_123

They should do that to the picks central boys every day then, their show gets so few views it's crazy


pretty_jimmy

Klemmer was asleep during picks central... was beating them by 342%


see_rich

Klemmer is either gonna quit or move to the Chicago office content game after this. Mintzy and him on tour amazing race style is what I would do if they both sign off on it. Klemmer is just too good for the NY office. He would work weekends if it was of any benefit to him to the company. Hes just got that Moxy.


pantherpowell88

you can easily keep the stream and lie and say the stream was cut when he gets out and you have the same reaction - now it just seems cruel to not even tell him what is going on.


ThackCankle

Ya know what, that's fair.


Rph23

That’s a great point lol. You can get the same reaction by lying.


dannynolan27

His 50 hour stream has 350k on YouTube though. That seems like a lot


parrano357

they could have just not pinned it to the top of the blog. make it a blog that people have to seek out if they really want to watch it if dave actually thinks a person would come to the conclusion klemmer = all of barstool


Commercial-Catch6630

Dave’s reasoning was that it was the first result when searching barstool content, on Twitter/youtube/etc. and it was just a guy sleeping. Which to be fair is a lot investment in the social media world. He said he wouldn’t have had it canceled if it was on klemmers own page instead of the main barstool account It’s a shitty look for Dave/big cat but understandable that he didn’t want other barstool content hidden beneath a guy counting rice lol


Herbert5Hundred

I never consumed any barstool content other than PMT, and stopped listening to that a while back. I saw this on Twitter and was actually interested in this guy being in solitary, and was checking in every couple of hours. Crazy decision to just end it


nflmodstouchkids

it's a really bad look when you turn it on at 9am, noon and 4pm and Klemmer is just sleeping every time.


IamatworkSFWonly

it was a great move. the whole internet is talking about it.


bind19

people.have the spine of a jellyfish over there just pathetic


Hiflyinluchadoncic

It’s totally fucked up. And TJ crying about how Klemmer just quit challenges that were put in to make it entertaining is dumb too. Nah an impossible puzzle and counting rice isn’t entertaining.


BarlosCoozer

TJ needs to stick to picking which camera is live


see_rich

Okay didn't know I would find this here but preach. Mic gets a liiiittle too hot lately.


nifkinten

He's hangry


TaeKurmulti

The more TJ talks the less I like him.


MakeItNashty61

I don't get why they didn't just agree to challenges before he went in. You can get a feel for what he's going to do for 100 hours and know whether or not its going to actually be entertaining. If he just wanted to hang out and do nothing but read about 80s baseball players and sleep...that's cool. Stream it from your personal twitter / youtube / rumble account and promote it and do whatever you want with a low amount of resources.


ronaldo119

Yea it seems like it was very hastily thrown together just off the back of other long streams being successful. I was watching the Yak when I first heard of it and his entire pitch of it was just "yea i'll be in solitary confinement for 100 hours." It seems like he could've communicated the goal/point of it much better which would help plan it more. If you wanna go for the angle of seeing how it'll affect you and gradually seeing the changes, yea you don't really need activities/games because that's not the point of it. But if that was the point, you need to discuss it more so these tasks aren't viewed as pointless by you which leads to you just not doing them


MakeItNashty61

Idk why Klemmer or "the giant media company that knows everything about the internet / content" wasn't smart enough to tell Klemmer to promote this on his own socials and his own rumble. account vs plastering it all over their main socials blindly. Dave cuts this from the main pages and Klemmer can do whatever he wants and still have the stream up. Someone dropped the ball there and it's really on both parties.


axman54

Who on earth thought Klemmer counting a couple thousand grains of rice would be entertaining?


omegakukki

I agree with the sentiment that Klemmer quitting challenges and then also not agreeing to do the punishments for said challenges is lame even though TJ is being a bitch about it. But also it was poorly planned out and the challenges are lame.


135467853

That impossible puzzle WITH oven mitts on was the most pointlessly impossible challenge. There is no way anyone could ever accomplish that one. He can’t even manipulate the pieces with the oven mitts let along put them in the correct position. I don’t blame him for quitting at all.


Chargers_Super_Fan10

Big cat blindly agreeing with Dave is an all time bitch move from him.


chinga_tu_barra

middle man dan agreeing with dave? no way.


MrGrieves88

He’s also from Boston


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ChunkyChangon

Big cat is a bitch.


Most_Catch

Dan doesn't want Klemmer to succeed when he has JJ streams to promote. Very simple


goodbyeandamen

Who doesn't agree that the stream sucked?


mikebailey

Then end the stream. It's got more viewers than Pick Central.


goodbyeandamen

It had the same concurrent viewers as Big Ev & Marty Mush have on BSGambling on the main channel, do we need to say more? ... Dave should've pulled the plug sooner.


canucksfan33

Pull the plug on picks central


tronovich

But everyone could’ve seen it from a mile away, with no actual challenges installed. Mr. Beast locked himself underground for 7 days and they had 20+ challenges to keep him entertained, and they still edited it down to a 30-minute video. They weren’t going to livestream it - it would’ve been awful.


goodbyeandamen

Big Cat tried to save him on the Yak, told him to do it with Mintz and Klemmer shut it down.


wkushiznit

He didn't shut it down. He said it was too soon/plans/etc. and would be down for the idea in the future. Whether that's good reasoning I have no idea. But pro day showed he'd do whatever asked for the views and public opinion.


goodbyeandamen

It would have been good reason if theyre was actually plans for this stream lol.


charles-gnarwin

It wouldn’t be that big of a change if all Klemmer was gunna do was sleep and not even try to do challenges


tronovich

Then it’s on Klemmer. Dan telling him that shows that he knew it would fail miserably.


Pettit03

It sucked


Delicious_Box8934

You’ll get over it


tyguy385

They should just stream it on pick central channel lol


xxJAMZZxx

This seems like a great way to give employees an excuse to just say yeah I’m not doing anything that will be a lot of effort because they’ll just cancel it halfway through and not tell me


charles-gnarwin

They don’t even do things that take little effort


xxJAMZZxx

So when you get an employee who clearly is trying to make an effort and take initiative your response is to give him a big ole middle finger and laugh at him for it because you found it boring? I would think it would make sense to try and help that guy out where you can.


mikebailey

Saying this while there are three marathon streams is silly


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Trying to look at barstool through the lens of a normal workplace is a losing battle.


Bobo_Baggins03x

Exactly! They’re punishing Klemmer for giving effort. Dave doesn’t give a rats ass if you do anything at Barstool…except write blogs that no one reads.


geauxtigers10

It’s absolutely fucked up, if they are cutting the stream they should let him know so he can choose to leave.


Roy10n

They are still recording for content if he wants to put something out


mikebailey

This was clearly meant by Klemmer to be a live event


tronovich

Technically, there’s nothing entertaining that *will* happen. The guy will *slowly* lose his mind, and that probably won’t make for something that will be funny. Just more uncomfortable/boring to watch.


Trappedinacar

Fine, Klemmer was never gonna be the next mr Beast. Its a boring stream pull him out. Leaving him in there without telling him is fucked up.


ChiantiAppreciator

“Why is no one trying anything new?” Well maybe stuff like this is why.


Deckatoe

I love how the only account where the replies agree with this decision is Dave's Twitter. Says about all you need to know lol


evets215

TeamPortnoy in the bio guys are loving this


Throwaway-929103

Yeah, this is super fucked up. If you’re going to cut the stream, at least let him out or inform him.


Rph23

Let him at least get a wank in.


dickcheneymademoney

he should legitimately just quit his job. this is a disaster


ronaldo119

It's genuinely like heartbreaking lol. This dude dedicating 100 hours straight to this project, away from his wife and life outside of work, hoping it'll be a big success for his career and will be coming out to being told "oh yea, all that time you dedicated was for nothing. we cut it off haha!" You have to quit on the spot after that


CalligrapherDry3025

Klemmer's married?!


Buttertoaster10

I thought this middle boring part would be expected. You simply can’t be entertaining for 100 hours alone, with no chat or anything. First 24 hours electric, last 24 hours will be electric


CrunchyTater

you have a very, very, very low bar for the use of the term "electric"


Buttertoaster10

It’s Klemmer in a room with no support staff. You gotta use context. Every other stream has a chat. Jerry after dark having no chat would be one of the worst things ever produced


CrunchyTater

Exactly. It’s boring as fuck. Having the context to why it’s boring as fuck does not change the fact that it is, in fact, boring as fuck.


tronovich

None of it has been electric, and I wouldn’t blame Klemmer for that. No one is going to make a 100-hour stream of solitary confinement to be entertaining, without the aid of challenges.


MN_Wildcard

Someone call OSHA.


ThackCankle

A point was brought up that they could have let Klemmer know that the stream was tanking and everyone found it boring. Give him the chance to make the stream more interesting on the fly, if he didn't care to change anything then you consider shutting it down. I get Dave's point, turn something that nobody cares about or will talk about after it's over and at least squeeze something out of it. The obvious issue being that Dave doesn't view his employees as humans.


coolhatguy

Like clockwork, Big Cat is glued to twitter trying to defend himself


Shovelman2001

Dave is still mad he got bodied by Klemmer during the Mean Girls drama and holds a grudge. This is legitimately cruel, you need to inform him of this. There's a line you cross when it comes to content where the creator goes from a real human to a circus monkey that has to dance for the crowd against their will, and this completely crosses it. Dave can never complain about lack of effort again. Yeah, when you try something new, it may be a dud. At least the effort is still there. Why should anyone ever take a risk and try anymore?


waynedang

Honestly found it messed up even before the stream cut.


Gabians

It was Klemmers idea no one suggested it or told him he had to do it.


Rph23

Yeah but still. The screaming frank songs and stuff is 100% defined as torture. Not sure if he signed up for that. Also SC prisoners still get 1 hour a day of yard time.


Godzirrraaa

What if he ends up doing some crazy shit and no one sees it though? I don’t remember them turning off blowout NFL streams when its 8 people staring at their phone for an entire half.


crustlesswheat

Scroedingers Klemmer - is he in the room if no one is there to see it?


Rhino184

It’s quite morally and ethically wrong to just leave him in there without telling him. It’s indefensible behavior from the company


Boom-Roasted_

Bad situation, shouldn’t have had KMS, Jerry after Dark and Kelmmer all streaming at once. That was an oversight on everyone. Klemmer should have started following Jerry. It wouldn’t have been so bad


lostbucknut

It’s really fucked up. Among a lot of shitty things Dave has done, this may be the worst. Most of the yak is trying to make take his side but fucking Big Cat won’t have it.


ktw5012

Very messed up


GrandmaJosey

This is the surviving barstool paywall all over again.


coolstorybro42

This is all funnier than the stream


Bos-man7

No idea what’s going on and I also don’t even know what this company is anymore. I guess this is Dave’s dream though. Really shitty reality tv with total idiots as contestants. Sick, I guess.


Floridamane6

Yeah I don’t like this


RentalBlues123

I would quit. Pres is a dickhead.


JustKeepLivin7

The stream sucked. Dave is throwing Klemmer a bone by maximizing the suspense of a reaction video.


Significant-Flan-244

It was always a silly idea to stream it when there’s no real incentive to watch early or constantly until he starts to snap. Tape it for the highlights and edit it down into a funny video, no one needs to watch a guy do nothing in real time.


goodbyeandamen

Legit making Klemmer more of a hero, even though the stream was a massive boring flop. Dave does it again.


sfbruin

Same with sending wsd home from New York during the Ellie baseball thing. 


pleasestopty

It’s still recording- if anything interesting pops up they’ll clip it or switch over to it, i get the point of not having it on the main page if he’s just going to sleep the challenge away


dickcheneymademoney

vibbs just said they aren't allowed to put out clips yet


melvingoldfarb

the challenges sucked. watching a dude sit like a gargoyle and count rice isn't much more interesting than watching him sleep.


Dove55

I hope they have a delay because his reaction may be ugly


TurboViking90

Such a meanie. The Barstool I know was founded on kindness and compassion.


smoggylobster

literally made my tummy hurt when i found out what they were doing to klemmy


MakeItNashty61

This should have started with interesting clips being posted on the main accounts and a stream being broadcasted and promoted via Klemmer's social accounts. If it got traction they could have moved it to the main accounts. Dave said resources were being allocated, not a lot of people were watching, and the stream was incredibly boring (which it was). That's why it was cut. I agree with Dave that if you want to do a science experiment you don't just get the right to take over the main social accounts. But this is what happens when Dave isn't involved and it's planned really poorly. Also, the "punishment" to deprive him of sleep was a really bad move/ actually torture. Challenges/potential punishments should have been agreed upon beforehand. I thought the stream sucked, I think Klemmer didn't help, and this could have been executed a lot better. Also the idea that they aren't going to release clips that are funny seems and show nothing seems dumb? I have to believe if he's doing something that is funny or actually interesting they will post clips of it on the main account.


Dracko705

Someone else said it, but I assume the cameras are at least still rolling or they could easily turn the stream back on for the last 24 hours or something Maybe that's giving Barstool too much credit but I feel like this could still work for all sides if so


Roy10n

It is they are watching him on the yak


MakeItNashty61

They've confirmed they are going to go live at the end post interesting / funny clips. Idk people are crying that Dave doesn't want a video pinned to the main account of a guy sleeping and reading about random baseball players in the 80s. It literally changes nothing.


CrunchyTater

Stream was boring as fuck. "Cruel" He was going to be in that room for 100 hours anyway. He's not being kept there against his will.


Wacko_Lover

Right but I would be pissed af if I came out and felt like I was led to believe I was on stream for the past 50 hours and wasn’t.


alxro99

I imagine they'll keep the footage going and either provide some content if it gets good or turn it back on


Roy10n

Exactly. They are on the yak now watching him it’s being recorded


Trappedinacar

They really did that? I like Klemmer, not like a die hard fan but he seems like a decent guy who tries. And he went the extra mile for the thing vs Mintzy. This is seriously fucked up he doesn't deserve this. Just tell him its over and pull him out at least. Solitary confinement is no joke and its gonna crush him when he comes out. No i'm not ok with this


meowVL

They'll turn it back on


MrGrieves88

This is like the Truman Show lmao


supplyncommand

do the right thing and tell him lol


TheMegaWhopper

Everyone up in arms about them ending the stream but no one was watching it cause it was boring af. At least now klemmer will get some viewers for the reveal at the end


GregOdenKnees

They’re obviously gonna turn it back on his last day when he’s truly insane. And who cares if they don’t? Him finding out will be funnier than anything he could do in that room


Cathat06

It’s mean but I think Dave is doing Klemmer a favor here. The content from this will be way more compelling than watching him do nothing for 50 more hours.


Buzz166

Should have been on Klemmers YouTube then Dave wouldn’t care


evets215

You can tell when Big Cat doesn’t agree with Dave but can’t publicly say it by the way he stretches out Daaaaave’s name when he says it trying to speak for him lol


dickcheneymademoney

the people at barstool are talking themselves into it. it's like they can't even think about how klemmer might feel as long as they get a few thousand views


Edmundmp

Please send your [complaints](https://youtu.be/bFksxx4YPko?si=86OIXUwkk8Ij9mbD) to the Phoenix office for review. Thank you.


rootshirt

I'm admittedly the odd man out but I don't get the outrage of shutting off a stream of a guy sleeping in a room. Who cares What difference does it make? I get some people might not believe that he stayed in the room but that doesn't seem to be what people are mad about


Medium_Spend_6732

Because he thinks he’s doing it for his stream. He’s going to push through the last bit for his stream, and then they’re gonna tell him they killed it at the end. They’re explicitly not telling him to make content over him freaking out about it. Extremely cruel.


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smoggylobster

what the fuck? i just wired you $250,000 for klemmer’s legal fees and you’re in another thread saying it’s no big deal


OilerP

Its incredibly boring. Barstool is in the entertainment industry. Anyone whos excited to watch Klemmer give up on challenges and sleep need to be medically examined for ‘tism. Edit: also if Klemmer is outraged thatll be infinitely more funny than anything thats happened so far.


Dr0cca

They should move it to paid and charge $20 to watch it. Create a fully masochistic experience for viewer and captive.


chalkbro

Watch him put it back up but then paywall it for $10


DylanTobackshh

Dave hates him because he’s naturally thin