Also remember that this was pre-youtube. So Steve had to hire staff (out of his own pocket) to help code and run the site. He also had to pay for the massive amount of bandwidth and server space to host all that media.

Opie, after years of Steve's work, wanted all that media back, free of charge, unwatermarked. What an oblivious asshole.

Steve hired Jeff to run the back end site. That was it. Anyone who did anything else was unpaid. If you wrote an article or porn review you weren't paid. The only people making money on FM were Steve and Jeff.

There was never any official agreement. Steve was "the web guy" and that's all they cared about. Pre YouTube is an understatement. He handles all that stuff so they didn't have to. It was a win win. Until CBS.

CBS wouldn't promote Foundry so they had to switch to Opieandanthony.com. It was around here they also discovered Twitter.

Suddenly now, 10 years and a YouTube later they suddenly care about digital rights and water marks.

Steve would go home and import actual tape into a PC and edit it himself. For years and years and years. Pay all the bandwidth and everything that goes along with it. Finding an artist for those shitty characatures. Putting the water mark on the uploads. Posting updates multiple times a day.

He wanted 10 grand for the entire back archive. While it should have been a who cares situation, 10 grand is nothing especially to the person who has spent way more than that on just hosting fees. He shouldn't have asked, but they should have just paid.

Sure it's fun to hate Opie but Steve dug his own grave. Let's be honest, Roland became more of the EP. There's a production guy. Multiple content producers. Steve is updating his website.

He also hired Danny. That's how he originally came in contact with the show. Was he not making anything? But considering Ant at one point was sometimes doing 30-40k a blackjack hand, it certainly wasn't a drop in the bucket. And good luck getting a dollar out of Opie. Like you said, he's only paying if it's to save his own ass. The man lived in sweatpants for Christ's sake.

Again, nobody besides Steve or Jeff got a dime from Foundry. Aside from Ben/Steve/Erik support staff wasn't paid for 12+ months easy.

Not that I don't believe you, but how do you know all this inside info? Is this Mel Kazekstan??

Not exactly inside. WNEW was 1999. Days of the "Spaz Cam".

https://web.archive.org/web/20000817003631/http://www.foundrymusic.com:80/opant/indexf.html

you are scary

Where did you get the 10k number from?

You'd have to be an idiot to see that as anything but a gift. That's not even enough money to create a database of those videos through a reputable company, let alone archive them for a decade.

Considering how he ended up, it might have been desperation.

What kind of pocket change does a YouTube video with 5 million hits of a homeless man doing a cover of a famous song get ya these days?

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$1 per 1,000 views unless of course you a fucking white male then you will get demonetized and YouTube keeps all those shekels.

Opie really is a terrible person. It's telling if Bobo doesn't want anything to do with you.

Bobo goes on any show he can get on.

Opie doesn't have a show.

Except Bobo keeps turning down Jim to do the Chip show. I don't understand why though.. It would be fucking hysterical.

Too big for da show, awlroight

yeah but you have to keep in mind how bad of a job steve was doing. he didn’t even have a “viral videos” section on the site where he uploaded the viral videos from the show. you know, the ones that you decide will be viral?

No, he would download and watermark actual viral videos. That other people made. He was doing the same shit ebaums world got fucked with constantly for doing, stealing content and hosting it with his shitty watermark across them.

I think the 'make our own viral videos' was an Opester misunderstanding of what was going on, like he thought they were deciding what would "go viral", but that's not what Steve was doing.

Of course he did. Opie was never good enough to make a viral video on his own, which is what he was always obsessed with all these years. Is anybody surprised that he took someone else's work that would get hits in order to "pump up his numbers" as he liked to say?

Opie wanted a viral video so badly but never lifted a finger to produce one. I've never seen someone want something so badly and do so little to get it. Opie is profoundly lazy.

What the fuck do you mean?! He once filmed a fat lady pretending to be afraid of a door. I’m sure the scripting, casting, and post production cost thousands and months of planning!

He actually did try a lot of shit to get a viral video. That fat lady he used to hang out with and film. His cringey dollar bill bit. I'm sure there was more. It was always someone else he was filming though. I'll never understand why he was so obsessed with viral videos.

I know tits is completely devoid of any talent but, why did he pick that fat, unfunny, douche chill inducing bitch to be his viral video "partner"? O&A was still a big deal at the time so he could have had any of the regular guest comics find him a very funny, unknown, up and coming comic to write and act in those awful videos. Literally ANYTHING would have made a funnier video than that fat cunt eat a bacon ice cream sundae or the other video they "collaborated" on where she held up unfunny signs at an Occupy Wall Street protest.

Opie fucking stinks

and has enormous breast

I profusely disagree Sir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPXHfpN3WFU

Opie wanted a viral video so badly but never lifted a finger to produce one.

Not true, he lifted a phone over a bathroom stall.

I don't understand how Steve C would expect compensation when he was paid a salary and the content wasn't even his, or Opies its owned by CBS or sxm or whoever the fuck they were broadcasting for at the time.

Opie still sucks

Whatever Steve C did was on his own free time no one made him do it

But it cost him money, and proved to be a great help to the show. He was probably making shit for money, especially compared to the Opester. Considering how much having that website helped their success, you'd think Tits would be a little more open to helping the guy out.

Why didn't Anthony or Jim pitch in?

And he was still trying to sell content he didn't even own.

Who knows if they even tried? But they sure weren’t being cunts about it like Tits was.

He was trying to be compensated for hosting the O&A material. Is that so hard to understand? It costs a shit load to do it, especially back then.

Right compensated for something he didn't even own himself.

Because like most things that fat titted cunt bitches about, Anthony and Jimmy didn't care. At all...

It's such a shame that Steve didn't live to see Opie's disgraceful downfall

Chip is responsible for all of his channels traffic

Opie owes East Side Dave $500 for winning a weight gain bet.

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"That's not an MP, that's a YP...YOUR PROBLEM!" - ME

I recently listened to an interview some nobody did with Steve after his firing, and Opie was responsible for Steve getting his job. Despite Opie being a piece of shit, it seems like early on Opie had the ability to spot talent. He saw talent in Ant after one parody song appearance

Easy to spot talent when you suck at everything.

In hindsight yeah. But without Opie, Anthony would be repairing AC still

Don't make it sound like Opie did something godly.

What you gonna do about it? Shut the fuck up

Gaybroman - reddit tough guy

Hhaa I did sound tough there. Im still drunk an you telling me what to do annoyed me

I'm still having trouble getting foundrymusic.com to load.

Why was Steve fired again? Can’t remember why and can’t find clip of them talking about it

Without getting too much of my own information out here I’d like to say some things about Steve C. I personally never met Steve C but was involved with his late wife’s side of the family. As an outsider looking in a lot more than his firing from O&A contributed to his death. The impression I always got was that Steve loved the show and where it took him. After his firing from what I was told there was prescription pill abuse as well as deep depression. His untimely death left behind an amazing son who now has to grow up and find bull shit threads like this once he’s old enough to understand what really happened. RIP Steve C. Also the last time I heard the Prius still runs

Who knows if they even tried? But they sure weren’t being cunts about it like Tits was.

He was trying to be compensated for hosting the O&A material. Is that so hard to understand? It costs a shit load to do it, especially back then.

Because like most things that fat titted cunt bitches about, Anthony and Jimmy didn't care. At all...

Even Ron shit on Opie's stupid 'find the dollar' bit at the time.