Miel Bredouw
Miel Bredouw
Miel Bredouw, also known as Mielmonster, is a comedian, writer, and actor based in Los Angeles, California.
Early Life
Miel Bredouw grew up in the small town of Orcas Village, Washington. Bredouw comes from a creative family. Her mother, Anne, is a clothing designer and her father, Jim, was a studio musician who also wrote music for commercials. Miel has an older sister, Minnie, who lives in San Francisco and works as a product designer focused on social impact. She also has a younger brother, Henri, who is a musician in Portland, Oregon.
Bredouw did her first competitive improv competition in sixth grade, but growing up in a rural community didn’t allow for many opportunities to get involved with comedy.
At 19 she moved to Los Angeles, California and started to get involved with UCB, but still didn’t commit to being a comedian.[32]
“I really struggled with believing in myself for a long time,” she says, “so I guess I never really had the confidence to fully just pursue comedy.”[32]
Career
Miel Bredouw is a comedian, writer, and writer. She has worked with websites including Funny or Die, Super Deluxe, and BuzzFeed. But she started her career working as a songwriter and then a sous chef. Later, she started her own baking company making specialty vegan wedding cakes. While working as a sous chef, she started making comedy videos on Vine.[32]
Bredouw became well known for her short comedy sketches on Vine, reaching a peak of 370,000 followers when the app was shut down in 2017.
She has a large following on social media with over 120,000 followers on Instagram, 102,000 subscribers on YouTube, and 89,500 followers on Twitter as of March 2019.
Bredouw had a viral video in November 2016 where she sang Three 6 Mafia's Slob On My Knob to the tune of Carol of the Bells. The video received more than 1.7 million views and was shared by Three 6 Mafia member, Juicy J. She later posted a second longer version which received over 670,000 views. Breadouw hosts a comedy podcast called Punch Up the Jam where she reviews, rewrites, and remixes hit songs with her friend and fellow comedian, Demi Adejuyigbe.
In 2019, Miel served as a transmedia producer for 7 episodes of Euphoria TV series. Previously, she appeared in Demetrinox (2018), Sylvio (2017, voice), Camp Unplug (2016) and Eastsiders (2012).[33]
Dispute with Barstool Sports
Miel received hundreds of messages from Barstool Sports about the takedown notice,
Barstool Sports' general counsel, Mark Marin, offered Miel Bredouw a $50 gift card if she rescinded her DMCA takedown notice.
In December 2018, Barstool Sports shared Miel's Bredouw Slob On My Knob/Carol of the Bells without giving her credit.
Bredouw said she asked Barstool Sports for credit, but was ignored.
She then filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown, and Twitter took down the video immediately.
Hours later, representatives from Barstool Sports emailed Bredouw, asking if she could rescind the takedown notice.
They initially offered her a full credit on the video.
She didn't respond.
Then, they offered her a $50 gift card to, of all places, the Barstool Sports online store.
Bredouw ignored the emails, joking it was difficult to resist the appeal of merchandise from a "historically racist and sexist company."
Bredouw began to receive hundreds of messages from Barstool Sports representatives across Instagram, email and Twitter to check the company's messages.
"The DMs went to my 'other' folder and I have gotten too many messages since to be able to see them anymore," she told Mashable.
In these messages, Barstool Sports offered to promote Bredouw's podcast, Punch Up the Jam.
The offer was then upped to $2,000 by the website's general counsel, Mark Marin.
"Never once has a person, much less a company tried to bribe me to undo my truthful claim," Bredouw said.
"Never once has a person, much less a company messaged me from multiple accounts, emailed to multiple emails, messaged to multiple accounts.
I have never been harassed like this for removing my own damn video."
When asked for comment by Mashable, Twitter, pointed to its copyright policy, which states multiple copyright strikes can result in one's account being suspended. Barstool Sports has 1.47 million Twitter followers. Berdouw said she is "disappointed, but not surprised" by Twitter's response to the dispute. She intends to seek legal advice.
"Where Barstool went wrong is that when she refused to respond and it became clear she had no intention of speaking with us we should have ended it," Barstool's founder, Dave Portnoy, told Business Insider in an email.
"Unfortunately Barstool Sports has idiots in our company much like many other companies and those idiots acted like idiots.
I regret our lawyer offering a 50 dollar gift card to our store not because it's illegal in any manner but it's just so moronic and makes us look like assholes.
That's why lawyers should not be on social media."