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Dave Chappelle Fallout Sees Netflix Fire Staffer Over Financial Info Leak – Deadline
Netflix has fired a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing the upcoming October 20th walkout. The employee, who is Black and currently pregnant, asked not to be named for fear of online harassment. They have been encouraging trans employees and allies to walk out of work in protest of
Netflix’s handling of the Dave Chappelle special The Closer. The employee declined to speak to
The Verge for this story.
“All these white people are going around talking to the press and speaking publicly on Twitter and the only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” says a former employee in an interview with
The Verge. “That’s absurd, and just further shows that Black trans people are the ones being targeted in this conversation.”
Per the Bloomberg report, Netflix paid $24.1 million for the “The Closer” and $23.6 million for Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” 2019 special. That’s well more than the company paid for Bo Burnham’s “Inside” special ($3.9 million) and even more than it shelled out ($21.4 million) for global smash hit
“Squid Game,” which the company is the most-watched Netflix original in its initial release to date.
Netflix estimated an “impact value” for “Sticks & Stones” of $19.4 million, per the internal documents cited by Bloomberg. That gave “Sticks & Stones” an “efficiency” ratio of 0.8 (cost vs. impact value) compared with 2.8 for Burnham’s “Inside,” according to the report.
The leak of the confidential data to Bloomberg seems to have been intended to embarrass Netflix — to point out that the company has paid more for Chappelle’s controversial content than better-performing programming. Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos claimed
in a memo to senior employees last week that Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” is the streamer’s “most-watched, stickiest and most award-winning stand-up special to date.”
Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout
The “commercially sensitive information” in question that led to Friday’s firing is that Netflix paid Chappelle $24.1 million for his sixth special for the streamer, up from the $23.6 million the Mark Twain Prize winner received for his 2019
Sticks & Stones special. Appearing in an October 13 Bloomberg article, the leak also revealed that the streamer paid $3.9 million for Bo Burnham’s
Inside pandemic special, and $21.4 million for
Squid Game. The former was critically acclaimed and the Korean produced latter has gone on to quickly become the most watched Netflix original series ever.
Though the streamer parcels out bits of flattering data here and there, Netflix has always held its viewership and compensation numbers tight to the chest — for better or worse.
With an October 20 walkout by trans staffers planned over remarks Chappelle makes about their community and the LBGTQ+ community as well, internal anger at the streamer has been bubbling over into the public sphere also since
The Closer dropped. Intensifying the reaction, Sarandos doubled down on his defense of superstar Chappelle and vowed the streamer would not pull
The Closer as the National Black Justice Coalition’s executive director David Johns and others demanded.
As Hollywood stands on the edge of a labor cliff with a October 18 strike deadline by IATSE, the claims of transphobic and hateful extended comments by Chappelle has seen GLAAD chime in, in addition to a heated internal debate at Netflix with a number of trans, non-trans staffers and even co-CEO Reed Hastings speaking their truth — for better or worse.
As well as former
Dear White People co-showrunner Jaclyn Moore declaring that she was “done” with Netflix “as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content,” superstar
Hannah Gadsby put out her own POV on the situation — and the
Nanette performer didn’t leave Sarandos or anyone else any confusion about where she was coming from.
“You didn’t pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted,” wrote Gadsby on social media early this morning. “F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult… I do sh*ts with more back bone than you. That’s just a joke! I definitely didn’t cross a line because you just told the world there isn’t one.”
No word yet what Gadsby’s fate at Netflix is — yet.
