The Try Guys is a channel on YouTube that features four people: Keith, Ned, Zach, and Eugene. They started making videos in 2014 on BuzzFeed and then broke out on their own to form their own channel and start their own company, 2nd Try LLC, while still having BuzzFeed be a part of their business behind the scenes.

Around Labor Day, it came to light that Ned, who was known for almost always mentioning his wife, Ariel, in videos, was cheating on his wife with one of his employees. After an investigation of these allegations turned out to be true, Ned was fired from The Try Guys. According to Ned’s statement on Twitter, it was a “consensual workplace relationship.” However, when it comes to bosses dating employees, that can lead to an unbalanced power dynamic. The employee could be okay with it to start and then want to end things, but the boss could say no to ending things, making the employee feel helpless and required to continue the relationship to preserve their job.

The other three Try Guys maintain that they did not know about the relationship until Labor Day, although it had been going on for a few months before that. If it were to be found out that they knew about this beforehand, the employee could come out and say that everyone knew and no one tried to help her, further tarnishing the brand’s image.

When an employer gets into a romantic relationship with his employee, this can lead to a host of legal issues: quid pro quo sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, and, in some cases, retaliation. Quid pro quo means receiving something in exchange for something else. For example, the employee may fear losing their job if they end the relationship, so they might act in a way and do things they normally would not in order to keep their job.

As of this article’s release, the employee Ned was in a relationship with is still working with the company. There is some speculation that she was fired, but firing her could be considered retaliation. She may have left or had a severance package put in place. The employee has not released a statement or posted anything about the situation.

Ned was fired most likely due to a morality clause, which gives companies the ability to fire anyone who tarnishes their image.

Morality clauses started in 1921 with Roscoe Arbuckle, who was a famous actor in silent films. He was charged with manslaughter. The first two juries were deadlocked, and with the third one, he was acquitted. Even though there was not much evidence that he had done anything wrong, there was so much pressure from the media and the public that theaters would refuse to play Arbuckle’s movies, causing the studio to lose millions of dollars. Eleven days after his arrest, Paramount stopped paying him on the grounds that he was unable to report to work. The very next day, Universal Studios wrote a clause into their contracts mandating that actors would not be paid who “forfeit the respect of the public,” and other studios followed suit.

Ned Fulmer is no longer an employee of the Try Guys company, nor is he on the company’s board of directors, meaning he is no longer a part of the company. However, YouTube is ad-based, so how would he be paid for all of the videos he has been in? There are two options. One, they could buy him out for a lump sum, and he would not get any more money from the videos, no matter how much money is made off of them. Two, they would continue to pay him revenue for the videos.

The remaining Try Guys are making videos without Ned and working on deciding how to move forward as a company.