UPDATE: We are now calling for action from TWiT.
The TotalDrama editorial board has been sent (via an anonymous source at TWiT) both employee compensation and show viewership numbers. We’ve been burned before, so we want to ask our loyal readers whether this information can possibly be trusted.
Our former inside source was fired, and this comes from one of TWiT’s newest hires. We’re not sure if it’s the real Jason C. Cleanthes (EffenDunn) or if we’re being taken for a ride. What do you think, readers? Should we publish this information that apparently has come from EffenDunn?’
We’re asking because the difference in pay between the male and female employees is extreme. The women at TWiT would be very upset if these numbers became public; after all, we are not monsters.
A tough call. I’d release it with the strong disclaimer that you believe it’s real, but cannot verify for sure. However, if it displays a huge discrepancy in male / female salaries, it is further evidence of Leo’s misogyny.
Holden» Quote comment
Release it.
woz» Quote comment
Publish it, with disclaimer. Be an interesting read.
Twit Viewer» Quote comment
That last TWiT data breech was sorta of a bust, don’t let it happen again.
John» Quote comment
Let’ see it!
James Mason» Quote comment
I used to watch TWIT, then it got bad… I then read TD, but now it has gotten bad too… With the sheer quantity of piss poor tech content and the painful Leo and Lisa love fest (from what makes it on air, it must be unbearable working there), it is not like TD should be hurting for material. Stupid teasers like this are not interesting…
Jerry» Quote comment
Well…….TWiT could be construed as being a public company since many people donated $$$ when the Brickhouse was being constructed (their names are on bricks in the entrance) and TWiT still receives public donations to this day. Therefore they could technically be allowed to view the financials of the company even if they’re not necessarily receiving a benefit (such as a dividend)…..but that’s just my opinion, I’m probably wrong……or you could just leak it to an anonymous public hosting site and magically announce you found it elsewhere and therefore you’re off the hook for any liability……but, again, I’m probably wrong.
It’s also possible it was leaked as a ‘Mole Search’ with different financials given to each person. Whichever financial report is made public exposes the mole in TWiT.
Marcus» Quote comment
Moronic regarding public classification
Not Speculation» Quote comment
we’re not operating normally
TheREALGoofballz» Quote comment
Marcus, you analysis is on par with the quality, insight, and rigor of a typical Before You Buy product review…
Jerry» Quote comment
Thank…uhh..you???
Marcus» Quote comment
That was not a compliment.
OMFG» Quote comment
people don’t get your comedic genius. no way this is real but its funny people think it is
TheREALGoofballz» Quote comment
Following Marcus’s lead, if multiple leaks did happen , do what the TWiT bookkeeper was trained to do and enter the figures in a spread sheet, average the columns and report and after that exhausting whoop de du, head for the soaking tub and a photo shoot with the Chief Creep.
John» Quote comment
How could a dumb fuck like EffenDumb get a hold of payroll information?? He’s just a crappy TD…
EffenStupid» Quote comment
Show us…. don’t bring it up and then nothing.
Marko» Quote comment
Show it, with a disclaimer. Know you, it’s false information.
Molly» Quote comment
I’m sitting here with 20 people. Let me poll them. Hang on.
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OK, it’s 19-1 in favor of releasing the info.
Maddow» Quote comment
Soooo if TD pulls off this breaking news scoop, will it put you in line to fill the soon to be empty TWiT breaking news anchor position/slot/desk??? I think so… after the Barcelona Bungle there is no way L&L can keep Skippy on the payroll.
John» Quote comment
Release it with a disclaimer.
Arjav Rawal» Quote comment
Think the ‘Ayes’ have it! Let’s see these numbers!!
Holden» Quote comment
Please don’t.
Of course everybody wants to see the numbers, and everybody thinks it’s somehow punish Leo and Lisa… but the people you’d really be punishing are Jason, JammerB, Burke, Alex, Frederique, Tony, etc. What’s the point? What’s going to change if you publish the numbers?
Fred» Quote comment
Is that Chinaman Tony Wang still working there? Haven’t heard his mumbling in a long time.
Uncle Tom» Quote comment
Idiot, wont hurt themn in the least. RELEASE THE INFO.
OMFG» Quote comment
its a trap! twit is going to pull a SONY and go after you for publishing stolen data
tony danza» Quote comment
It should be posted. If it shames Leo to pay male and female employees equally for the same job, you are doing a great thing.
Holden» Quote comment
The X Files has been off the air for too long. If it was still on the air, you would know that this is but one move in a chess game, a game involving these men who lay claim to the trust of the public but who use that trust against the very people who believe in it with their lives. A game that has parts and pieces too large to ennumerate, too spectacular to comprehend, but too dangerous to ignore. A game that must be stopped, and the men who perpetrated this crime brought to justice, whether in this world or the next.
(did I do a Mulder voiceover properly, or was it too short?)
Anyway, yeah you know it’s not real, we know it’s not real, so the question is whether it’s been done for a laugh by you/to you, or done to you as a trap.
evilpants» Quote comment
You are all gullible. Read the article again. HelloWorld is saying he received TWiT payroll info from someone claiming to be EffenDunn, who is a producer at TWiT.
Why would he risk his job? Why would a producer have access to payroll? Why would he send it to HelloWorld, who writes posts shitting on him constantly?
This blog doesn’t have any information that didn’t come from TWiT’s live stream or a dropcam. It’s never had an inside source and the biggest #scoup it ever had was getting a mentally disabled person to visit the TWiT Studio and we got so frustrated with him we banned him from coming in the chat.
Part of the reason this place is going to shit is because it’s about egos now and this is getting old. That’s why many of us have left or are leaving.
Joke is on you who fall for this. It’ll be made up like those fake invoices a far better writer faked for attention.
Drake» Quote comment
Except people haven’t “fallen for this”. At least 2 of us have said we think the whole thing is a joke on/by HW, and the rest clearly don’t think it’s real. It’s just that we don’t feel the need to show how clever we are by saying that we’ve worked it all out.
Like HelloWorld and everyone else, we’re just having fun. It’s not our job to try to save TWIT, it’s not our job to be extremely serious about everything and make sure we get it right, it’s our job to enjoy ourselves.
I don’t know about others here, but one thing that makes me enjoy myself is reading comments like yours, clearly meant to show us all how much better than us you are.
Well, you got me. You’re better than me. But I’m still smiling, I’m still happy, and I’m having a great day without sneering at anyone else.
Relax.
evilpants» Quote comment
Hopefully those faked invoices were done on FreshBooks!
Wait, frustrated with Taylor K, say it aint so!
OMFG» Quote comment
I feel certain that the TWiT staff reads articles & post on this site. Would think that an employee at TWiT stealing payroll data guarantee loss of job. That employee who is leaking payroll info could be in legal trouble. Why would Jason(EffenDunn) go through the risk?
Dark side of doo» Quote comment
That danger here is that anyone at TWiT, and I mean ANYONE, reading this shit , then believing it, could cause them real commotion. THAT in istelf could be grounds for a lwasuit against TD.
Maybe.
I dont know.
What the fuck.
OMFG» Quote comment
helloworld has a hard-on for him
Lobo» Quote comment