Barstool Sports top blogger Karim (last name?)
has already done that plenty.
If you don’t know by now, then you probably don’t give a shit.
And if you don’t want to read about him again, then stop reading now.
I’ve already got your click.
Or who Karim is.
Or who I am.
But that doesn’t get you 33 up-votes in the comment section.
Trust me, I understand how much 33 up-votes in the comment section can make your day.
I wish I was being sarcastic, but sadly I’m not.
It’s hard to say which to choose.
$25k is a lot of money.
It could be the difference between a 10 and 30 minute commute to the office.
The difference between feeding your dog IAMS or Science Diet.
That’s nothing to sneeze at.
Fuck man…idk…
But honestly, I can’t blame the kid.
I’m not faulting him for that.
I’m sure Nicky Smokes knows that a $100k salary comes with $100k expectations.
You don’t have many more followers.
It’s not like you’re making fucking waves at Barstool or anything.
Are you going to be able to do enough to get an extension?
Glass houses, stones, pot, kettle, black, etc.
That’s entirely fair.
I’m not paid much less.
I’m absolutely paid more than I’m worth, and I have no more juice than Nicky Smokes.
But what y’all don’t realize is that I’m playing with house money.
Well guess what I learned over the course of my first year at Barstool?
It doesn’t matter.
Happiness doesn’t come from a job.
I still have everyone who loves me, my friends, dogs, cats, all that shit.
Sure, I no longer dread going to work.
But I promise you guys, that doesn’t just make you happy.
You gotta figure that shit out internally.
And honestly, I should be dead by now.
The amount of drugs I’ve done?
When I’m telling you it’s house money, I fucking mean it.
So if I don’t make it past my 3-year contract, then who gives a shit.
I lived my dream for 3 years.
I got to live in New York City like I’ve always wanted.
That’s fucking incredible.
I am perfectly happy no matter what.
I’ll sell a cardboard box to an Eskimo.
I’ll be great.
But does Nicky Smokes feel that way?
Turning 24k followers into 100k USD?
On the back of Miami?
The worst sports town in America?
But he had no way of knowing that going in.
I’ve seen the numbers thrown around by Stoolies regarding how much money we make.
I almost guarantee when Dave offered him $100k per year, he thought that was base level.
As a Stoolie, I would have too.
It’s very much not, but nobody really knows that going into this job.
I’ll see you in Manhattan next week."
I’ll give Nicky Smokes credit though.
At least he’s owning it.
Responding to KFC’s video with “Should have bet Dave.”
is so wildly out of touch that I have to respect it.
“Yeah guys, you should have just bet Dave, then you’d be making more money.”
But even after all of that shit I just said.
As much shade as I threw at him.
He made it happen.
He made enough noise on the internet to get Dave’s attention.
Dave responded to him and nobody else.
And he won the bet fair and square.
And what the hell else is he supposed to do?
At least he’s not being a pussy about it.
I wouldn’t have had the balls to go at KFC in my first week on the job.
I still don’t.
I wish I did.
Maybe if I did I would be involved in more content.
I’d probably be bigger.
Maybe I would have gotten invited to the Barstool Awards Show next month along with Chris Klemmer.
There’s no such thing as bad attention here.
The whole thing with Ria.
That was fucking hell for him.
He took more shit on the internet for dating a single woman than anybody I’ve ever seen.
But that entire thing was a storyline.
It was content for Barstool for at least a month.
Anything that gets people talking about Barstool is good for Barstool.
Anything to stay in the news cycle is good for Barstool.
The more idiots like me give in and blog about him because they need to get their clicks up.
The more KFC interacts with him.
That just means he’s doing his job better.
As much as some people don’t want to admit it, that is unequivocally true.
I know literally nothing about Nicky Smokes aside from when I asked him to do the Rundown on Wednesday.
He asked me to add a Tua Tagovailoa topic.
I felt like he did a pretty good job.
And he would have been better if he didn’t walk back some of his terrible takes.
There’s a reason Skip Bayless has been on TV every day for over a decade.
Which is probably half true.
But there’s a part of everybody here who cares what people think of them.
I’m cheering for Nicky Smokes.
I’d be happy to do any sort of content with him.
I have respect for anybody who can make a living doing content on the internet.
And I’m not cheering against anybody.
