Writer's Guild Strike of 2023 - Fuck these people

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What is worse?

  • A consoomer, who produces nothing, devours everything, and will threaten you if you dare disturb the

    Votes: 87 15.3%
  • The one who's work is to forever feed the consoomer?

    Votes: 25 4.4%
  • Feed them all to feral pigs

    Votes: 456 80.3%

  • Total voters
    568

Ralph Barnhardt

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On May 2, 2023 at 12:01 PST the Writer's Guild of America went on strike. An estimated 12,000 people walked off their jobs that night. Their demands were simple:
  1. Better residuals from streaming services
  2. To not be replaced by AI
At the time of this writing almost a month has passed with no ground gained. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have not budged so the writers continue to picket. Things are bad for the writers. Some have even been forced to steal food from their contractor just to survive!
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Michael had to steal Kombucha from Netflix to feed his wife who was either pregnant at the time or just gave birth to his daughter. He couldn't afford to buy his own kombucha because he was too busy giving you a show to consoom about a 13 year old girl living in the 90's who discovers she's a lesbian after looking at a porno mag and kissing a black boy.
The plot
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The first few episodes, all directed by Mikey
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What other middle aged man
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is gonna write fapfic shows about 13 year old girls discovering their love for muff for all the 13 year old girls discovering their love for muff?

How about the poor lady of color who wrote the Turner and Hooch TV remake who doesn't get residuals from a show that no one watched and got cancelled?
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For 8 months this woman
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was without work. Why couldn't she find work in those 8 months? None of your fucking business, bigot! Fuck you! Pay her more!

But wait! There's also the story of the poor Asian woman who's show that she worked so hard on is being removed from streaming after just SIX MONTHS!
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Now, granted, she only wrote one episode about the show she was so upset about being removed
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but she worked realllllllly hard on it so who are you to deny her potential residuals on a show that got pulled about John Stamos being a basketball coach that no one ever heard of?

Don't you just feel for the guy who doesn't actually write anything but just works for the union?
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Didn't you clap? Didn't you clap when you saw it?

As it stands now Hollywood is at a standstill. Companies like Disney are changing what shows they are and are not keeping on their streaming services due to the public outcry of people on twitter. Is this the future we want? Think of the children! Would you make the children of the world suffer another year with no heroes(a)? Think of the throwaway TV shows you'll be missing if you don't give them your support! Think of the movies that mock you that will never get made! Think of the mediocre capeshit that won't exist to keep worthless adults from realizing they wasted the past 13 years of their life!

Show these hard workers and fighters of the evils of capitalism your support by posting them and their wonderful works in the thread, won't you?

I fucking hate Hollywood and I want it all to burn. I want every faggot who thinks they deserve riches or even just a living wage because they made a singular show that they seem to expect live the rest of their life on regardless of if anyone actually watches it or shat their thinly veiled lust for young flesh out on paper, went over budget and want to make it my problem, to be destitute and their loved ones to hate forever for ruining them with their hedonistic hubris. Fuck these people.
 
So what could realistically stop TV production companies from being forced to use AI scripts while the strikes are on? Can't they just sack the writers and get non union ones? It seems like a really weird hang up for writers to be mad about, knowing that the longer the strike goes on, the more that production companies start considering AI scripting.

The longer a show (lets just say Stranger Things) gets delayed, the more it creates a major issue with actors being chained to a show they have a contract with so can't realistically do any other major projects while it's happening.
 
Replacing those slovenly parasites with AI? There's an old Russian joke about this.

A man goes to a bordello, has sex with a hooker, and starts looking for a towel to wipe himself with. Suddenly he sees a sign that says "Do NOT wipe your dick on the curtains!" "Hey, that's a good idea..."

...and just like that, I got an idea for a show. About some soy monkey writer who got fired due to AI and tries getting a real job, failing miserably at it. In one episode he tries to learn to weld, in another he tries to work at a restaurant, etc.

Obviously the whole thing will be written by AI, maybe animated and voiced by AI too. Expenses will be minimal, mostly just $8 a month for a blue checkmark for shitposting on Twitter.

Title: "The Write Side of History"

Overview: "The Write Side of History" is a satirical comedy series that follows the misadventures of Jerry Mulva, a social justice aficionado and a struggling TV writer who is mediocre at his job. After being replaced by an AI, Jerry embarks on a hilarious journey to find another job, but his personal failings and comedic mishaps continuously sabotage his efforts.
 
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So what could realistically stop TV production companies from being forced to use AI scripts while the strikes are on? Can't they just sack the writers and get non union ones? It seems like a really weird hang up for writers to be mad about, knowing that the longer the strike goes on, the more that production companies start considering AI scripting.

The longer a show (lets just say Stranger Things) gets delayed, the more it creates a major issue with actors being chained to a show they have a contract with so can't realistically do any other major projects while it's happening.

They've been focused on AI / having a certain number of writers in the room when they really should be talking about stuff like royalties / having to work on five shows a year because they only make 8 episodes. I have no idea why they're doing this, or why they treat the picket lines as a party.

I assume a bunch of shows will be cancelled (not Stranger Things of course) the longer this goes.
 
not to be replaced by ai? lol, the same people who had no problem laughing at blue collar workers complaining about being replaced by asians and mexicans? why can we not just say these are the jobs nobody wants to do so we have to replace with with ai the same way they say this about construction and manufacturing jobs? where are the journos telling these writers to stop whining and just learn to code?

i have zero sympathies for these people for many reasons. one i have already laid out. the other is how worthless these people are but also how inversely they feel they are the most entitles, superior , and most deserving of people. you write one episode of a terrible show nobody watched? you totally deserve tons of money and respect for that.

imagine being a father who has to support a pregnant wife. now imagine that your current job doesn't pay you enough to support her, so what do you do, as a man who needs to support his pregnant wife, do you? A) immediately start looking for a better paying job. or B) continue to work for free whole stealing kombucha and hoping you'll eventually make it rich will complaining you dont have any money? if you chose B, then congrats, you are a Hollywood writer, you get to feel entitled and better than the rest of us while being the biggest waste of space in the universe.

i hope AI replaces every one of these useless fucks and they end up having to work at starbucks.
 
I sincerely fucking wish every one of these troglodyte fucks who advocates for stricter copyright laws because "muh hoomad made werk is being replaced by a 'puter" should be promptly skinned alived for stifling creative work. Fuck copyright, fuck the big companies and fuck niggers. TOTAL INDUSTRY DEATH
 
When you go on strike for a month, and nobody notices, was your job even necessary?

I hope they all starve.

not to be replaced by ai? lol, the same people who had no problem laughing at blue collar workers complaining about being replaced by asians and mexicans? why can we not just say these are the jobs nobody wants to do so we have to replace with with ai the same way they say this about construction and manufacturing jobs? where are the journos telling these writers to stop whining and just learn to code?

i have zero sympathies for these people for many reasons. one i have already laid out. the other is how worthless these people are but also how inversely they feel they are the most entitles, superior , and most deserving of people. you write one episode of a terrible show nobody watched? you totally deserve tons of money and respect for that.

imagine being a father who has to support a pregnant wife. now imagine that your current job doesn't pay you enough to support her, so what do you do, as a man who needs to support his pregnant wife, do you? A) immediately start looking for a better paying job. or B) continue to work for free whole stealing kombucha and hoping you'll eventually make it rich will complaining you dont have any money? if you chose B, then congrats, you are a Hollywood writer, you get to feel entitled and better than the rest of us while being the biggest waste of space in the universe.

i hope AI replaces every one of these useless fucks and they end up having to work at starbucks.
Lets be real, its the bull's kid, not his.
 
Lots of people in here think more of AI than it deserves.

Not that I support these guys. I don't know enough about their demands to hold a strong belief, but talent is thin on the ground these days. Most TV and movies are shit so I'm assuming that's at least partially their fault along with the idiots that green-light their shallow crap.

Still, a world produced by AI sounds fucking boring to me.
 
Lots of people in here think more of AI than it deserves.

Not that I support these guys. I don't know enough about their demands to hold a strong belief, but talent is thin on the ground these days. Most TV and movies are shit so I'm assuming that's at least partially their fault along with the idiots that green-light their shallow crap.

Still, a world produced by AI sounds fucking boring to me.
at this point I'd rather have boring entertainment than that which seeks to indoctrinate and convert me
 
at this point I'd rather have boring entertainment than that which seeks to indoctrinate and convert me

There are literally decades of excellent entertainment at your fingertips. Written and produced by talented people, with a real-life soul and imagination, who didn't have either an agenda to push or an ass to cover. If you're willing to watch stuff with fuzzy images and less than 5.1 surround sound you can easily last over the current dearth of interesting art until the world pulls it's head out of it's butt.
 
There are literally decades of excellent entertainment at your fingertips. Written and produced by talented people, with a real-life soul and imagination, who didn't have either an agenda to push or an ass to cover. If you're willing to watch stuff with fuzzy images and less than 5.1 surround sound you can easily last over the current dearth of interesting art until the world pulls it's head out of it's butt.
i'm aware, but is it seriously too much to ask for modern media to step up to bat? shouldn't the shit I have to go watch with more normal people be worth watching as well? is it too much to ask to put the constant and nauseating discourse over which movie has woke shit/not enough woke shit in it to rest?

who am I kidding, that last point won't wear off until the last generation and their kids are all dead, but still
I shouldn't have to seek out old shit to enjoy a good movie or tv show
I won't object to doing the work- but I will object to what made me have to do it in the first place
 
i'm aware, but is it seriously too much to ask for modern media to step up to bat? shouldn't the shit I have to go watch with more normal people be worth watching as well? is it too much to ask to put the constant and nauseating discourse over which movie has woke shit/not enough woke shit in it to rest?

who am I kidding, that last point won't wear off until the last generation and their kids are all dead, but still
I shouldn't have to seek out old shit to enjoy a good movie or tv show
I won't object to doing the work- but I will object to what made me have to do it in the first place

Yeah... the sad thing is, if content were generated by AI it would almost certainly have even *less* risk and more woke bullshit. In a world defined by risk, who's going to accept liability for ticking that AI content option to "remove all safety measures"

Maybe killing off the current Hollywood elite is a good thing, I just hope the alternative is better....
 
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