bodega boys desus nice & the kid mero aka's poll

wow rip and also wtf

;_;

i felt like this was coming for a while but ugggghhhhhhhhh it sucks

i mean...sometimes you can't get over person shit i get it, but it's been a real bummer to see the whole thing just evaporate. didn't seem like either one had really big plans in place when they killed the show, now Mero streams twitch (only 10K followers, just checked his last video had like 790 views), I know Desus subbed on Jimmy Kimmel but he mostly seems to be tweeting about the Knicks. I dunno, the whole thing should have gone much bigger than it did.

Yeah, feels like a swathe of missed opportunities. I wonder if COVID retrospectively was killing a momentum even with their home broadcasts (which were fantastic/sanity helping).

i was thinking the same thing, re how thry just fizzled out

they’re both great tv personalities

i saw that mero is hosting an F1 podcast for amazon w/ will arnett & idk... maybe it does well? i'm sure it pays ok. but it made me kinda sad. it feels like they don't really know how to mesh w/ the wider world of pop culture/entertainment when not doing their collective thing together

there seems to be some kinda hipster F1 thing happening so that could be more popular than I think but overall yeah it's not exactly mass culure

there is but that made it even worse! glomming onto some pop cultural trend

we are truly being robbed of great content with Desus & Mero not being on the air for the DJ Envy real estate scandal

Envy often promoted the project on the “Breakfast Club,” claiming they’ve “helped so many people.” And many of the spurned investors who spoke to NBC 4 said they got involved with the project because of Envy’s co-sign

victimless crime

desus guest hosted the Daily Show this week & delivered the goods (kinda?)
(starts at 3:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0_7SlLtLY

makes me miss the desus & mero audience though, that smattering of applause bummed me out lol

Mero talks about the breakup in detail on the new ep of his 7pm In Brooklyn show w Melo (guest Joe Budden)

starts at around the 45 min mark iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTfLoJd8Uw

cliffs notes bia reddit (tho the convo is worth a watch, really great, melo in like full therapist mode & goes on to reveal a lot abt George Karl)

EDIT: Cliff notes

-Creative and (more importantly) business differences.

-Mero mentions a $1.5M sponsorship opportunity from DraftKings (before the massive betting popularity) but Desus wanted to pass because of the “stigma”.

-Mero’s money moves and motivation are done to support his family + kids, which isn’t a priority for Desus as he is in a different place in his life

-Desus wanted to focus solely on linear (HBO, Showtime, etc) whereas Mero wanted to focus on both linear AND digital (bodega boys)

-Mero notes he made more money on YT/podcasting while working at vice

-Mentions there was potentially a Judd Apatow movie (!!!) that Desus didn’t want to do

-Mero seemed to suggest that they are not on speaking terms.

Seems like Desus truly went Hollywood but Mero didn’t want to do that as he wanted to preserve his authenticity and creative freedom.

Team Desus if he wanted to avoid a DraftKings ad.

Yeah I was gonna say, no brainer there.

yeah i thought the same thing. mero seems like he is a bees dick away from full blown gambling addict anyway

(based on what hes said in the past)

Which kinda makes that providing-for-family explanation a little...less than practical, say.

both things can be true i guess

https://t.co/i4CS27KpzO pic.twitter.com/PLGA7khMY6

— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) February 16, 2024

still such a bummer hate to see this