23Feb#10
Bobby urges a troon to send a complain about his family doc to a professional org, for not filing a document properly and delaying the cock-chop.
To me, keeping someone from mutilating their body seems to be a much better read of the Hippocratic Oath than any "gender-affirming" surgery. Good on that doctor for doing his best to stop this troon from doing something they'll eventually regret, and sorry for all the shit he's going to have to deal with for taking that stance.
23Feb#17
Bobby is happy at Chris Gore being criticized for insulting
Madame Web and "girl brand".
I strongly doubt Barbie is a "four-quadrant movie".
Bob has no room to complain about people who look like that when his profile pic is
literally the exact same thing, sunglasses and all. Hell, Bob has no room to criticize anyone's appearance when he looks like a barely sentient thumb.
I also decided to find out whether Barbie actually was four-quadrant like Bobby insists, and from what I see, it definitely wasn't. As a refresher, a four-quadrant film is something that appeals to all four major demographic quadrants that Hollywood targets films to: each combination of men and women, and those younger and older than 25. This doesn't happen terribly often because creating a movie that every audience can find entertaining without it devolving into lazy pandering is a major challenge.
Take this all with a grain of salt because I don't have the data, only reports on it. Barbie's audience demographics work out something like this:
- Gender split: 70% female, 30% male
- Age split: 70% under 25, 30% over, with younger viewers making up the lion's share of the under-25s
So while Barbie did have a decent amount of male viewers, it was still overwhelmingly skewed towards the "women under 25" quadrant. By comparison, Oppenheimer had a fairly flipped gender split (70% male, 30% female), but it was a lot more even in terms of age split, nearly 50/50, so it could at least lay claim to hitting two quadrants. These movies didn't succeed due to the whole Barbenheimer meme, they succeeded because they weren't even targeting the same audiences in the first place, and both could make money without hurting the other.
But if those aren't, what is? Well, one need only look at Top Gun: Maverick to see what a truly four-quadrant movie looks like. The gender split for that movie is closer to 55% male, 45% female, so both sexes got something they wanted out of it. And as for age split, over half of the opening weekend box office was over 55, and overall it'd work out to be something like 35% under 25, 65% over. So while it skewed older, there was more than enough appeal to go around, which led to a tremendous box office success.
In short, Bob's retarded as usual.
23Feb#18
Bobby follows by educating an imaginary audience about marketing strategies. He suggests that existing clientele might itself impede further market growth. If your audience happen to be "mushrooms", you better yank off the rotten log, clear up more space so that you can... grow whales, I presume?
23Feb#19
He thinks Toilet Swift happens because country music chased out the Rebel-flag constituency.
Bobby did not mention the roaring success of Bud Light. Strange isn't it?
There are so many things wrong with this analysis that I could write a book, but I'll just hit the high notes (and build a bit off of
@Sexy Senior Citizen's post).
First, whales in gaming exist because gaming has an entirely different monetization model from film, TV, etc. The microtransactions that whales get addicted to can only be a thing in an industry where you can actually sell things piecemeal. Video game publishers target these because people with lots of disposable income and low impulse control can be milked for huge sums of money, and one of them can be worth as many as dozens or even hundreds of regular players. Ain't no way you're gonna charge a moviegoer an extra buck to add in an extra scene or replace the main character's costume (though I'm sure the studios would enjoy that).
Second, I literally have no idea what his mushroom analogy is supposed to mean. I tried to see if he picked this up somewhere, but all I could find were articles discussing the marketing for
actual mushrooms, so this might be something his pea brain cooked up all on its own and he thought was actually brilliant. Either way, it's so dumb that it's seriously hurting me to try and parse it, but the best I can come up with is that "mushrooms" are gross, obsolete chuds that you want to get rid of so a bigger audience will feel comfortable moving in and throwing more money at you. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that chasing away a devoted audience is always a bad idea, but Bob does not have half a brain.
Third, Taylor Swift did not tone down the country influence in her music because of those dang dirty rednecks scaring away everyone else. She did it (or rather, her managers forced her to because she's entirely a corporate phenomenon) because bland, generic pop music sells to a wider audience, and that gives her more money to spend on her private jet flights everywhere. Bob somehow doesn't understand the concept of selling out either.
Finally, the Rural Purge may have been successful, but not everything that replaced those shows was a hit. Some of the shows even continued on in syndication after the networks canceled them and lived on for years, showing that the audience was indeed still there. And many of those classic shows continue to be shown today, albeit mostly on retro-themed networks, where their timeless comedy still finds an audience decades after their initial airings. I'm sure I'm not the only kid here who grew up watching reruns of Andy Griffith, The Beverly Hillbillies, or Green Acres. It's certainly a lot better to show your kids than most of what's on TV or YouTube these days.
Okay so I did write a book, but when there's so much retardation, you kind of feel the need to.
is also yearning for Bob's Holy Soopeeryah Fyootchah and wishes to bestow it upon Bob, for in some way having Right-think is worthy of being rewarded by the Undefined Powers That Be. The Universe