Scratch my last message about both Paradigm and WME being listed on Taylor’s profile, because now only WME is there! So I’m starting to believe he really did move with one of his agents to WME. I’m praying he’ll have more success with them this second time around!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Mmmm...... not me coming back from the shadows because of this.
WME is a mess and a half and I am puzzled/intrigued about all this.
Here's a Link to my initial write up on WME and the timeline of Taylor leaving for a different talent agency.
That post was written on March 29th, 2024, so a year ago. How time flies, what the actual fuck.
I was a whole different person back then but I digress.
So anyway, Taylor did sign with WME and Anonymous Content right after TKB blew up, makes sense but as I say in my write up WME has a big "packaging" issue and that's where Taylor might've gotten bitten and one of the reasons he left.
My concern with this is that WME is going to yet another big shake up, Silver Lake one of the big investors of WME has stepped up and bought the whole thing outright so they now have power and they made the company private once again.
Also Ariel Emanuel CEO of WME, has now stepped down and it's now an executive chairman to the company, I'm sure Silver Lake would like to take him out altogether but he is the founder and probably owns a good chunk of shares to the company and it would be bad optics to find a way to kick him out.
Honestly looking at the articles, essentially the entire top of WME is about to change and I have no idea if that's for better or for worse.
When in regards to what that means for Taylor....
It doesn't look like he was happy with Paradigm, Booking Info tells me he had 3 agents with Paradigm and it is likely that he has trust/confidence in the agent leaving for WME, that he decided to follow them regardless of the talent agency itself. This is also what happened with his managers if I remember correctly.
WME is already (has been???) following Taylor on Instagram so it's legit an announcement as we're gonna get until we get an article, I'm gonna wait for Booking Info to update and see if he's assigned additional agents.