What Happened to the Infamous 'Fresh and Fit' Podcast? It Was Demonetized
"Myron Gaines is crying because they can’t make no more money from YouTube. That’s karma right there, clown,” one person tweeted.
Updated Feb. 15 2024, 2:09 p.m. ET
The internet is not a real place.
From pranks and memes to Passport Bros and Karens, we could all agree that social media is where the wild things live. This includes the infamous Fresh and Fit podcast, which has had a home on YouTube for years.
At the helm of the podcast are Walter Weekes and Myron Gaines, who are best known for their outlandish beliefs about women.
However, the hosts previously announced that their show had been demonetized. This left everybody wondering — did Fresh and Fit get canceled? Scroll for details on the drama.
What happened to the ‘Fresh and Fit’ podcast? It wasn't canceled, but it was demonetized.
Walter and Myron took to social media with bad news for fans in August 2023. In an emotional Rumble video, the pair confirmed that their show had been kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program.
While the show wasn't canceled, Walter and Myron won’t get paid to post their podcast videos on the platform anymore. The two said the reason why YouTube made the decision was unclear — but it probably had something with their violating the platform’s terms of service on more than one occasion.
That said, they put up a fight to keep the Fresh and Fit podcast going.
“When you guys send me your DMs and say, ‘Yo, you saved my life,’ ‘Yo, he sent me a picture of your credit score,’ ‘Yo, my girl is making sandwiches now,’ or whatever it is, right,” Myron said in the video.
“We've helped a lot of you guys from [committing suicide]— from making a really bad decision. What I am asking, you guys, is just like we've saved you guys, we need you guys to save us. We need you guys to support us,” he pleaded.
“Guys, it's gotten to the point now where even where we shoot the location doesn't want us to stay here. Yeah. I didn't want to f--kng have to say that s--t,” Myron went on, adding that he quit a job he “truly loved” to give his all to Fresh and Fit.
“Saving children is great,” he said to fans. “But saving you guys better.”
Did anybody else throw up a little bit? Apparently, I’m not the only one who was unfazed by his sob story.
Here's how the internet responded to the ‘Fresh and Fit’ podcast getting kicked out of YouTube’s Partner Program.
Fresh and Fit’s cancellation from the YouTube Partner Program came as no surprise to critics. After all, their content isn’t exactly advertiser-friendly. In the past, they’ve been guilty of racism, colorism, misogyny, and so much more. Needless to say, very few people had sympathy for their downfall.
On Twitter, one user wrote: “[Fresh and Fit’s] Myron Gaines [is] crying because they can’t make no more money from YouTube. That’s karma right there, clown.” That post has since been taken down.
“Fake alpha male pretending to teach men how to make money and get girls. [You’re] lucky YouTube didn’t shut your channel down completely,” they added.
@Tree_of_Logic took a moment to reflect on the duo’s most cringe-worthy moments.
“You women-hating clowns at Fresh and Fit thought that you can [dehumanize], belittle and attack women on YouTube and not eventually get demonetized?”
“Never forgot that Myron Gaines aka Amrou Fudl kept telling his audience that since women are emotional, we can't be good leaders,” she wrote in another post.
In their announcement, Myron said “It’s the beginning of the end of an era,” and boy are we glad.
