Weeks after bankrupt Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment was supposed to have freed up $175 million in capital to keep operations ticking along, the US media company—which owns the video services Redbox, Crackle, and Popcornflix—is facing intense backlash from unpaid court payments and complaints from staff over delayed salary payments. This is the type of story that the fanatics of the FAST format—free ad-supported streaming TV—do not want getting airtime. The Redbox owner is one of a multitude of media outfits betting the kitchen sink on FAST, with the dedicated Chicken Soup for the Soul FAST channel supposedly gaining traction and garnering more investment, notably launching on the Philo TV streaming service in summer 2023. But rather than this…