There’s a major shakeup in the podcasting world.
Alix Earle’s Hot Mess podcast has been dropped from Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network lineup, according to multiple outlets.
In addition, SiriusXM—who announced a content partnership with Cooper in August—renounced its rights to the show and will no longer sell ads for the program, the outlets reported.
Earle’s weekly show launched in September 2023 under the Unwell banner, part of the media company co-founded by Cooper, 30, and her husband Matt Kaplan. Hot Mess focuses on topics ranging from “friendships to family, relationship updates to rumors, traveling and navigating life after college,” according to the show’s official description.
The business shift fueled growing social media speculation of a rift between the two podcast hosts, which seemingly began when Earle, 24, was a no-show at an Unwell Network Super Bowl event in New Orleans.
E! News has reached out to Earle and Cooper’s reps for comment but has not heard back.
Meanwhile, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy fanned the flames by sharing a screenshot of an alleged 22-minute phone call with Earle on social media, teasing more details to come on the matter and leading to rumors he might hire her.
“You can stop tagging me,” he captioned the Feb. 25 TikTok post. “I know what needs to be done.”
While Earle may have opted to skip Unwell’s Super Bowl festivities, the TikTok creator and her boyfriend Braxton Berrios did attend the GQ Bowl in the city the same weekend, where she explained her recent video that insinuated an engagement was on the horizon.
“That was kind of a wild one of me to pull,” she told E! News at the Feb. 7 event. “But no, nothing right now. [We’re] both focused on our careers and having fun, but it's going great.”
And with their romance in good shape, the Miami Dolphins wide receiver didn’t elaborate on plans for the future.
“Those conversations are kept between us,” Berrios said, “but no, there’s no timeline.”
For a look at what some of the biggest TikTok creators have said about their earnings from the platform, keep scrolling…
Sophie Rain
The OnlyFans model revealed that she made over $43 million in just one year on the adult subscription platform. In fact, she even shared screenshots of her earnings from November 2023 to November 2024, which included a $4.7 million paycheck from one subscriber alone.
JoJo Siwa
The Dance Moms alum revealed that she made "six digits a month, easy" on YouTube videos as a 13-year-old. She added in the 2024 documentary Child Star that she now posts up to 300 times a day on Snapchat as part of her influencing career.
Chris Olsen
The TikToker revealed he has a net worth of over seven figures.
"You guys can keep calling me annoying," he quipped in a July 2024 video. "Being annoying has made me a millionaire."
Jeffree Star
The makeup artist revealed he earns $50,000 when he hosts a TikTok live—which he does four or five times a week—through selling cosmetics and gifting from fans.
"I'll make bacon in the morning and make $50,000," Jeffree told the Cancelled podcast in November 2024. "There's some times where I don't sell at all, and I'll just make bacon in my kitchen, in my bathrobe, in my little slippers, we'll just hang out and I'll just chat and I'll do a Q&A."
Other times, he's making bank by offering discounts on his own branded makeup products.
"It's a niche market but it's massive," he added. "We're the No. 1 or 2 beauty store."
Lily Phillips
The OnlyFans model—who made headlines in December 2024 for sleeping with 101 men in one day—told E! News that she earns a "good amount" off of creating NSFW content on the subscription-based platform.
As for a ballpark figure, she said, "Oh, we're in the millions."
Markell Washington
Markell—known for his dance videos—told Salary Transparency Street in 2023 that he earns between $500,000 and $700,000 a year, mostly from brand deals and Snapchat's mid-roll program.
Deepti Vempati and Natalie Lee
After appearing on Netflix's dating show Love Is Blind in 2022, the pair pivoted to social media stardom and said they each made $500,000 in less than two years as influencers.
Julia
The ASMR influencer—known as @itsblitzzz on YouTube —admitted in January 2024 that she scores about $56,400 a year on ad revenue from old videos, without creating new content.
She's made over $610,000 in 14 years on the platform in ad revenue alone, with less than a million subscribers.
King Caitlin ASMR
The ASMR creator shared that she made $3,948.05 on TikTok in September 2024 (with nearly 400,000 followers) and $910.95 on YouTube in the same month (with nearly 27,000 subscribers).
Makayla Samountry
The Minnesota YouTuber made over $193,000 on the adult platform OnlyFans from January 2020 to December 2022, she shared in a Medium article.
Morgan Presley
As explained on The Really Good Podcast in 2023, the content creator has scored $50,000 on a single sponsored video.
Gigi Robinson
The chronic illness advocate told Salary Transparency Street in 2023 that she earns about $150,000 a year with less than 40,000 Instagram followers.
Ben Brainard
The comedian charges between $5,000 and $10,000 for a sponsored video, he told Salary Transparency Street.
Kamillah Rae
The YouTuber shared that she made $4,746.94 from monetization on the platform from August 2023 to January 2024 (from a total of 923,700 video views), with under 30,000 subscribers.