Fans of The Breakfast Club can’t watch full shows on YouTube anymore because the morning show signed a $200 million podcast deal with Netflix.
Now co-hosts Charlamagne and Jess Hilarious are crying because they lost all of their viewers who used to tune in on YouTube every morning.
Netflix signed a $200 million deal with iHeartRadio to stream more than 15 iHeartRadio podcasts, including The Breakfast Club.
The Breakfast Club moved over to Netflix in January. Now the morning show is dead in the water.
They post short clips on YouTube, but no one watches the full show on Netflix.
Jess Hilarious is crying because the show on Netflix isn’t getting any views and there are no comments. The show sounds like an echo chamber.
Jess Hilarious gets candid on how The Breakfast Club feels disconnected from the fanbase they have built over the years. Netflix seemingly has control over their social media and what they can promote/post pic.twitter.com/uLJ610WRLi
— Micah Jung Un (@Micah_W17) March 3, 2026
A few more months and people will be asking ‘Whatever happened to Charlamagne and Jess Hilarious?’
$200 million down the toilet in one flush.
Charlamagne and Jess Hilarious have to think of other ways to keep their YouTube viewers entertained because their viewers don’t want to pay monthly for The Breakfast Club when it used to be free on YouTube.
Rose Garden member @Birdshu wrote on X.com: “That’s unfortunate. All money ain’t good money. If you get money and lose your audience, what’s the point?”
That's unfortunate. All money ain't good money. If you get money and lose your audience, what's the point?
— Bird (@Birdshu) March 3, 2026
Youtube user @justin10davis wrote: “Man, I’m not feeling the Netflix move.”
YT user @treduce6637 wrote: “Sold us out for Netflix.”
Another YouTube user called Charlamagne out for marketing The Breakfast Club as a “podcast” instead of what it is – a radio morning show.
@arjunkannan6907 wrote: “Really surprised breakfast club analytics staff didn’t do enough research prior to moving to Netflix. Yes the content is the same. But y’all call yourselves a podcast when it’s more of a morning radio show in the disguise of a podcast. Everyone in morning wants what form of accessibility to reach you: youtube. No one’s opening up Netflix in the morning lmao.”
