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Reagan Conrad: The Harsh Realities Of Mixing Friendships With Business – And The Harms Of Taking Away Your Friend’s Job In The World Of Influencing

Brett Cooper is a young, 23 year old conservative former child star and YouTuber. In 2022, she joined the Daily Wire’s ‘The Comments Section’. The show found a whirlwind success with Brett’s bubbly personality as the face of the channel, having gained a whopping 4 million subscribers by 2024. On October 26, 2024, Cooper’s producer, best friend, and maid-of-honor at her wedding, Reagan Conrad, would begin to be a guest host on her show. In the two months leading up to Cooper’s official departure announcement, Reagan became a more frequent familiar face on the show until eventually becoming Brett’s official replacement. In her announcing her departure from ‘The Comments Section’ and The Daily Wire company, Cooper insisted that the decision for her leaving was on her own accord. The more time passed since her departure, however, the harder it became believing this testament to be true. After her departure from the company, Brett referred her subscribers to her new YouTube channel where she’d be doing the same exact thing her fans love her for. The one major difference would be that the content she’d create would be self-produced. The channel gained nearly 600,000 subscribers in its first month alone. January 27, 2025 marked Brett’s official independent YouTube debut. She saw more growth than she ever saw possible. Here, we break down Brett Cooper’s time at The Daily Wire and ‘The Comments Section’. We explore what happened in the events that followed her departure, including what exactly fellow YouTuber and former The Daily Wire employee has to do with. And we explain the reasoning why Brett is seeing so much success, whereas ‘The Comments Section’ is seeing a dramatic decline in viewership and subscription. Let’s discuss…

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