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Recently, Hayes called out TechCrunch for what he claims is a lack of support toward him as a Black founder. According to Hayes, an interview he conducted with the outlet never saw the light of day, but when an application similar to his hit the market the story was front and center.

The only difference he noticed was the color of that founder’s skin and what he calls “a terrible version” of a vertical he had built on Fanbase.

“In the beginning of the year, I did an interview with TechCrunch. We had a functionality that was gonna get released, which is our version of TikTok and the Reels concept,” Hayes explained. “The article was supposed to come out, but then it was a bunch of stalling and I didn’t think much of it until I saw the article about Fanhouse.”

After speaking with a venture capitalist about the capital that he had managed to raise with Fanbase, he soon realized that the other application had raised roughly $33 million.

“I downloaded it and saw that it was a complete terrible version of what I would try to build if I tried to do the Creator Community application,” he expressed. “But I saw that they raised like $33 million and they were getting press with all of these outlets like TechCrunch, Bustle, Bloomberg, this huge media you know. And when you actually look at the product itself, it’s a bad product.”

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