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
Saw this on Twitter. Not only did it amuse me, it is as likely a dead on recapitulation of where we are and how we got here as you are likely to read.

The part about hiding the numbers from the investors is bang on the money and this will soon roll-out across the tech world.

Download figures for games, dlc, concurrent players, MAU, Social media accounts, Ad clicks, all of is artificially inflated to infinity and beyond.

As soon as one accounting book is opened and investors see one lie, they'll want all of them opened and the day of reckoning will begin.

To that end, the strike will have to continue forever.
I’m honestly kind of surprised that those investors really haven’t so much as threatened a lawsuit over not being able to see the numbers, much less demanded to see them with a strongly worded letter.
 
I’m honestly kind of surprised that those investors really haven’t so much as threatened a lawsuit over not being able to see the numbers, much less demanded to see them with a strongly worded letter.
Picketers are deathly afraid for Investors to see string of flops, low viewership numbers and revenue from pedowood shit.

If anything seething army of literal who should be terrified of the fact that the world would know the world at large gives even less of a shit about what they shit out and the strike itself.

If a industry isn't profiting why investors and consumers who keep pedowood degenerates afloat have any reason to people who create A grade dross?

Are people on strike that retarded to realise that their demands will backfire?
 
I’m honestly kind of surprised that those investors really haven’t so much as threatened a lawsuit over not being able to see the numbers, much less demanded to see them with a strongly worded letter.
At this moment in time, it's a M.A.D. situation. The investors are getting paid and making money. The studios are receiving investment. It seems that everyone is happy to continue the charade as long as the money flows. Once that money stops flowing, shit will hit the fan.

I have a tinfoil/cynical theory that once the jig is up on the SJW/Woke/Lefty style hollywood projects, they will spin 180 and start releasing based/anti-SJW/anti-woke projects to get an influx of new users and viewers. It will work as well, because the anti-NPC-NPCs will swallow it up by the truck load.

FWIW, i dislike the terms woke, based and SJW, but using them is the easiest way to describe groups.
 
I have a tinfoil/cynical theory that once the jig is up on the SJW/Woke/Lefty style hollywood projects, they will spin 180 and start releasing based/anti-SJW/anti-woke projects to get an influx of new users and viewers. It will work as well, because the anti-NPC-NPCs will swallow it up by the truck load.
They kind of already do, that's why they're still doing movies based on every half-baked idea JK Rowling comes up with. The manufactured controversy gives it free advertising and probably gets anti-SJW types to spend money on it.

Hollyweird still needs to act as a propaganda engine for leftist ideology for both domestic and global audiences, but what they'll do it more shit like that. They'll try and do half-assed cancellations of actors with radical opinions like "I don't think children can consent to chemical castration" and get the dudes in dresses crowd to tardrage in the media as free promotion of whatever movies they show up in. Maybe you'll even have other totally radical things like historically accurate casting where half the nobles in medieval Europe aren't black people or god forbid, a cast of mostly straight white men in a movie about mostly straight white men.
 
Maybe you'll even have other totally radical things like historically accurate casting where half the nobles in medieval Europe aren't black people or god forbid, a cast of mostly straight white men in a movie about mostly straight white men.
That would be shocking to the normie eyes to be able to pass as normal.

A show about medieval Europe featuring 100% white cast will still play into SJW screaming. I agree that part of this is for free advertisement, it works very well. But to sell the right-wing le epic based talking points to normies. The show would have to be a set in medieval europe, featuring gays, trans and blacks, who are all anti-immigration, anti-gay - why write a clever hero/villain story when the shit writers can use "muh gay" as a reason, and show classically SJW/LGBTQ characters spouting right-wing talking points.

The normies would be reprogrammed with their NPC-update that doubles-down on the command 'believe all blacks and gays'. From there you can segue into a black Hitler and a female Stalin.
 
They’re also narcissists who’re too enamored with the Hollywood system and the established avenues to try and go off the beaten path.

Maybe they’re just as risk averse as the studios they’re fighting against.

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About the second image "it's hard to be visible", it's such a fucking lazy excuse.

The reason why LotR, Star Wars and Harry Potter worked was that, at least as far as derivatives go, they are relatively original and based on things that are either universal or mythology (or at least they ripoff something that no one knows of). But pretty much every modern work by Hollywood is just a derivative of some other pop culture shit from the last decades.

There is no world to immerse yourself in or create your own stories, everything is stagnant, cynical and already premade. It's all McDonald's grade entertainment where you consume product and move to other product.
 
This is a really fascinating event. The creative industry/field is both hyper saturated but extremely small at the same time - there really aren't that many stars that rise from the chaff. We haven't had genuinely innovative or brilliant new artists in over a decade that's a common name. A lot of genius artists will live and die in happy obscurity, further shrinking the pool. More peak early and then stay stunted by the current trend of coddling. I don't know much about literature but figure it has a similar problem as fragile egos and mediocrity are rewarded.
If these people were truly so passionate and even a little talented, they would try to strike it out on their own or as little groups. It's a subjective field, and the Internet has proven that people are 300% willing to pay you for good content. It's often enough to outpace the scalping, stealing and pirating.
But they won't, and we all know why.
 
I’m honestly kind of surprised that those investors really haven’t so much as threatened a lawsuit over not being able to see the numbers, much less demanded to see them with a strongly worded letter.
Look at what happens with corporate stocks. When there are profits and dividends to be had, few people complain because they're getting some sort of benefit. As soon as the companies start reporting losses or low/no dividends, the shareholders get angry, demand answers, and even consider suing the executive board or its equivalent because they feel bad decisions are what led to the losses.

If Hollywood started losing money consistently, you can bet there would be demands to see the books and just how much is being made versus what's being reported in terms of streaming subscriptions, video sales, etc. Hollywood as a collective doesn't want that and will try to all the can to distract and delay shareholders and other interested parties from seeing that information. Still, I'm a bit surprised the unions on strike haven't asked for this information as part of the negotiation process. We'll see how this all plays out.
 
Hollyweird still needs to act as a propaganda engine for leftist ideology for both domestic and global audiences, but what they'll do it more shit like that. They'll try and do half-assed cancellations of actors with radical opinions like "I don't think children can consent to chemical castration" and get the dudes in dresses crowd to tardrage in the media as free promotion of whatever movies they show up in. Maybe you'll even have other totally radical things like historically accurate casting where half the nobles in medieval Europe aren't black people or god forbid, a cast of mostly straight white men in a movie about mostly straight white men.
Whose propaganda engine? Pedowood bends over backwards for China, just like Reddit and triple AAA gaming industry, films which bomb there. Still any slightest thing that offend genshin impact lolishit obsessed mobile device userbase aren't using YouTube, Netflix or Disney+.

China funds cultural soy for weak willed troglodytes, following beliefs of social Marxism and socialism. White men who aren't obsessed with Reddit, modern bread and circuses, countries which purged any brand of socialist, brain rotting cable TV, go out and touch grass.

Propaganda only works if you subject to it, liberal arts, hippie garbage, dopamine addictions and consumerism all of which can be found in Pedowood.
 
Whose propaganda engine? Pedowood bends over backwards for China, just like Reddit and triple AAA gaming industry, films which bomb there. Still any slightest thing that offend genshin impact lolishit obsessed mobile device userbase aren't using YouTube, Netflix or Disney+.

China funds cultural soy for weak willed troglodytes, following beliefs of social Marxism and socialism. White men who aren't obsessed with Reddit, modern bread and circuses, countries which purged any brand of socialist, brain rotting cable TV, go out and touch grass.

Propaganda only works if you subject to it, liberal arts, hippie garbage, dopamine addictions and consumerism all of which can be found in Pedowood.
Hollywood has been leaning hard to the left for nearly 80 years at this point. I am not saying foreign big money/Blackrock/CIA(if you're into that) isn't influencing them, but a lot of their propaganda is home grown at this point. They bent over to China because they saw 1.3B potential customers and China has enough money to buy into things. Maybe now that money is getting tight they'll start making saner decisions, but in that vein maybe I'll grow a pair of wings.
 
Think the writers are the ones that should be doing the dog walks to prepare for their future careers.
I would let a crack addict walk my dog before a Hollywood degenerate, I would have to worry about the crack addict killing or stealing, if it's a Hollywood writer, who the fuck knows what it would do my pup?
 
If anything seething army of literal who should be terrified of the fact that the world would know the world at large gives even less of a shit about what they shit out and the strike itself.
They should be but they're all infected with LA and are unable to even comprehend a world outside of LA. They are a perfect encapsulation of clown world and they live in such a way that they will never hear anything that goes counter their way. The rare event that someone in their midst gets out of line they will just come down on them like a tonne of bricks.
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"Social media let us all scream at Drew Barrymore about her still having her show on until she crumpled like the abused child she is. We have won the strike and are the good guys. Pay us more money."

I'd link the article but Joe is either retarded and can't figure out how to paste the link or he's purposefully not including it because the article doesn't say what he wants it to say. Both are equally likely in my mind.

As for the second tweet, where is the evidence that the companies are hurting? The only side that is even complaining about any hardship is the strikers. They are the ones running out of savings. They are the ones worried about losing their LA homes. They are the ones worried about going hungry. The companies and the AMPTP are running articles saying how they're saving money by not making a bunch of shit shows that make no profit. The best the strikers have to argue against those claims is to call it propaganda and tell everyone to not believe it with zero attempt to deboonk it.

But what do I know anyhow? The WGA is meeting with the execs sometime tomorrow.
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Unlike the time when they met with the strikers on a Friday at 4 PM this time they mean business by meeting in the middle of the week! Yessireebob! They are taking them seriously now!
 
Whose propaganda engine? Pedowood bends over backwards for China, just like Reddit and triple AAA gaming industry, films which bomb there. Still any slightest thing that offend genshin impact lolishit obsessed mobile device userbase aren't using YouTube, Netflix or Disney+.
You're a few years out of date here since Hollywood isn't as obsessed with the China market anymore, outside of shit they know will sell like Avatar. IIRC it's because of Xi's policies toward foreign entertainment (and promoting his own domestic entertainment) and plenty of movies that have absolutely bombed in China usually because of racial propaganda or homosexual ideology they shove into every movie these days. They still do push their movies in China (and other foreign markets) to spread American culture.

Remember that almost every big budget action movie which has the military, FBI, or CIA in it are funded by those respective organizations and they get their own consultant(s) to demand script rewrites. IIRC with the military and CIA this isn't mandatory (but does deny access to a lot of filming sites and free money), but for the FBI it is mandatory since it is illegal to use the FBI's logo or likeness without permission. But the big one in terms of sheer scope is the US military since they fund junk like Mahvel capeshit and Transformers which you better believe is used for propaganda.
 
So much for caring about all the other people you have on staff you fucking loser lol.
Remember, Bill is still a Leftist. Despite the fact that he’s apparently referred to as a Right Winger, despite not having changed a single one of his beliefs over the years due to the way the Overton Window has been punted.

Him falling in line shouldn’t be surprising.
 
So for these shows that aren't running as a result of the strikes, how is the rest of the production crew getting on then? Obviously writers and actors aren't the only people responsible for producing a television show, movie, etc, but I guess everyone forgot about them. Does the rest of the staff just go fuck themselves until this ends if they're not part of either of those unions?
 
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