Brett Cooper departs Daily Wire following days of speculation

“Hey guys, some of you have heard the rumors online, and the rumors are mostly true,” Brett Cooper began her YouTube video, posted Tuesday evening, very tactfully. “Today, December 10 will be my last day hosting the Comments Section, and working for the Daily Wire. It is not true that I am being forced out; it was my own choice to leave.”

Cooper had frequently been dubbed the “female Ben Shapiro” during her tenure as one of the Daily Wire’s other podcast hosts. She was also set to star in the Wire’s production of Snow White and the Evil Queen, out next year for some reason. The video announcing her exit has garnered over 5 million views on X in the twelve hours since publication.

What are the rumors? Cockburn, of course, has been keeping up with all the Wire drama. Online whisperers implicate the other, non-Ben Shapiro co-founder, Jeremy Boreing, often referred to as “the God-king” of the Daily Wire. A number of rumors center on spats between prolific movie producer Boreing (he cast himself as the lead in Lady Ballers, which he also produced, co-wrote and directed) and Cooper.

After Cooper gives some grateful farewells at the beginning of the her video, she segues into a clip of the “God-king himself.”

“Bittersweet indeed. We’re sad to see Brett go, but we’re excited to see her take the next step in her journey,” Boreing began. “It’s been a pleasure to see her bring the Comments Section to life these last three years.”

Brett’s YouTube show, the Comments Section with Brett Cooper, has garnered about half the YouTube subscribers that Ben Shapiro has accrued in just three years, a remarkable feat compared to Shapiro’s many years in the business.

Amid all the rumors, Reagan Rohrbach, Brett’s producer, had been “filling in” for Brett periodically, and Brett announced Rohrbach would take over the show as many predicted. Online sleuths noted that Cooper had deleted all photos featuring her with her producer from her Instagram in the week leading up to Cooper’s announcement.

Cockburn would like to host a quick comments section of his own and point out that many people are unhappy with Brett’s departure from the Daily Wire, with several on X claiming they will no longer watch.

Fortunately for the Daily Wire, they can apparently afford to lose a few of the Gen Z viewers Cooper garnered. “Daily Wire raised an undisclosed round of capital in 2023 at a valuation well north of $1 billion,” a source told Axios Tuesday, conveniently shortly before the Cooper announcement. The Daily Wire is reportedly on track to surpass $200 million in revenue by the end of this year. The companies streaming service has well over a million subscribers. Boreing and Shapiro have been long described as shrewd businessmen, and the numbers are supporting that fact.

But as Cooper said, the rumors are “mostly” true, whatever that means. In the video where Cooper says farewell, she happens to be wearing a dark blue sweater. In her days of absence, TikTok fans had been encouraging Cooper to wear blue in her next broadcast if she was subject to an NDA — very pro-free-speech of the Wire if so! Was Cooper’s “choice” to step away much of a choice after all? She declined to comment for this story.

“But, as an actor, it is so freeing, because I don’t feel like I’m censoring myself at all,” Cooper said in an article last year on the Daily Wire, addressing her role as Snow White. That aged well…