What Happened to Young Pageviews from Barstool Sports? Did He Get Fired?
Young Pageviews aka Ben Friedman was once recognized for leading Barstool Outdoors. But he just lately was once underneath hearth with Dave Portnoy and resigned.

Feb. 23 2021, Published 2:32 p.m. ET

A job at Barstool Sports is a dream for lots of. The digital platform has gathered nearly 10 million followers on Instagram and has employees who've become iconic web personalities. There are such a lot of people — especially young adults of this generation — who would do anything else to be the next Alex Cooper, Brianna LaPaglia, or Big Cat. Like, hello! Who wouldn't want to get paid to create content material about relationship, partying, and sports?
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But in some workers' instances — like Young Pageviews aka Ben Friedman — the well-known sports and popular culture weblog may have no longer been the best place to work. If you are a fan of the media corporate, you already know that Ben has been head of Barstool Outdoors for quite a while now, and he and Dave Portnoy have no longer been on the most efficient of terms recently. Find out what happened to Young Pageviews and notice what the meat is all about.
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What happened to Young Pageviews from Barstool Sports?
Young Pageviews, whose actual name is Ben Friedman, has been operating at Barstool Sports since 2017 but has left the logo as of February of 2021. Around the end of 2020, Dave referred to as out YP for not promoting the corporate's products all the way through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. That escalated into Dave making a sequence of callouts towards the Barstool Outdoors megastar.
The CEO took to Twitter to make some public comments relating to YP no longer doing rather well in his task at Barstool. Dave even made a comment on his show (The Dave Portnoy Show with Eddie & Co) that he used to be going to discover a replacement for YP at Barstool Outdoors.
You almost definitely know that if one makes Dave disappointed, it is almost definitely going to be accompanied by some talk and statements on social media. And with this situation, Dave did now not let him off easy along with his phrases...
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Gotta say @YoungPageviews stock hasn't ever been lower in my eyes. First ever Team Portnoy club ever revoked. When I gotta remind my guys to advertise Black Friday you haven't any position at the desk with me.
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) November 27, 2020The amount of people who have reached out calling for @YoungPageviews head is shocking. I didn’t know everybody right here hated him such a lot.
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) December 4, 2020Article continues below advertisement
After a few weeks of Dave coming for YP on-line, YP took to Instagram TV the place he made a 15-minute-long video without delay responding to the complaint he used to be receiving from folks — especially from Dave. Ben titled the video, "The truth about @barstooloutdoors."
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A quick abstract of what he talked about within the lengthy video: He mentioned that his contract used to be extended with the company through CEO Erika Nardini, he stated that he constructed the Barstool Outdoors phase all on his personal and credits himself for the success of it, he apologized for now not pushing merchandise up to he may, and he said that Dave could be disenchanted with the low numbers in viewership however that the bar cannot be set as prime as a show like Call Her Daddy. Check out the tea for yourself:
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You already know Dave had to share his two cents about this video that YP released, and he took to his show on Barstool to say, "We are looking for a new head of Barstool Outdoors. I'm serious about that. [YP] didn't build the socials of Outdoors. We did that. YP does d--k. He really does not do much." One word: Yikes.
After numerous from side to side over the course of a couple of months, YP selected to surrender from his role at Barstool and made an announcement on his Instagram via the IGTV characteristic. He mentioned how he was once thankful for the enjoy and what sort of he liked his task there. Part of the caption read: "I’ve decided to leave Barstool Sports. I love the living s--t out of all my friends at Barstool that have become my family over the last 4+ years. We have legitimately grown up together and I love you all enormously."
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And in just a topic of days after the go out of YP from Barstool Outdoors, the virtual media company has already discovered a substitute. Sydnie Wells will probably be taking on the section that used to be spearheaded through YP for nearly five years. She used to be an all-Mid-Illini Conference first-team basketball & softball participant in 2016. Sydnie was additionally a 2014 first-team JS All-Area shortstop, hitting .431 with 7 HRs & 38 RBIs.
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How did Young Pageviews start running at Barstool?
Interestingly enough, YP were given his get started at Barstool from his oldsters' basement in Missouri. "I formulated a game plan sitting in my parents' basement in St. Louis to get their attention and present a specific direction of what I could do for them and how it would be valuable to them. I made a music video called 'Young Pageviews' and put it out. That got Dave to follow me," he advised Ultimate Hockey Fan Cave.
It took some time for Dave to truly take him significantly, despite the fact that. "I then DMed him incessantly for an interview and when he FINALLY said he would meet with me, I drove up from St. Louis on a day's notice, got an albino wallaby, went into the office to present the idea for Barstool Outdoors. I had documented the entire journey on camera and Dave liked that idea as well. It went well and I just stayed at the office for four days until he said they had an opening for me," he stated.
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