#lol I guess part of me was still thinking abt this

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not posting the full version of this bc ppl do insane and unproductive jared vs jensen discourse w/ certain soundbites but yeah this was clearly true at least for a time; jared got first billing as the show started with sam as the main character (however you want to define that; people do insane and unproductive discourse with this too though it is simply an observable fact - I wish everyone cared to discuss the shift over the seasons instead in a non-combative and truthful way.) possibly also had to do w/ jared having more name recognition than jensen had at the time that they were both hired - like yeah jensen was an up-and-coming soap star but jared debuted on another “flagship” WB show (GG) and the last project he worked on before he started supernatural was house of wax which was a decently talked-about film albeit for all the wrong reasons when it initially came out.

I was poking around in old fan forums last night and saw some unverified stuff abt jensen’s agent having tried to get jensen’s pay updated to match jared’s after the first year of the show but the request being declined bc their contracts were set for X number of years. if I had to guess I would say this pay discrepancy probably existed for at least 3 years. I highly doubt they didn’t work something out during one of the (surely many) contract renegotiations that followed esp since jensen has publicly spoken abt being the one to - for example - get it into both his and jared’s contracts that they were to be driven to and from set rather than being expected to drive themselves. he had sway on that set well before the end this much is incredibly obvious.

anyway this is literally all just rpf fodder to me and frankly I find it deeply embarrassing when fans start sniping at each other over how Their Guy is better bc he Makes More Money or Better Headlines or whatever. these r my painted dolls from fuckass hollywood I only care abt the details of their work lives bc I’m plugging them into the interpersonal angst machine for my own amusement and that of the maybe 2 ppl who aren’t too bitter and wastefully celeb-blinded to enjoy my characters based on the actors.