I couldn't have said it better myself and it's true. The issue is with these companies is that people get appointed to certain positions, and they want more than anything to be different than the same old producers they were, and because things are in a giant hugbox none of them realize the fact that no one is interested in this shit and at this point it's an active turn off. Wokeness hurts more brands than it helps, because it's not trying out anything new despite what they think, it's trying to put the square peg in the round hole, and then applaud yourself for having done so.
I've always stood by that if you actually want diversity in casting, it starts with funding actual projects that are good first and diverse second. No one I know cares if a series is cast with Asian or black people, as long as it has good characters and good story lines. If the opposite were true no one would ever watch a foreign European film, much less Nollywood or Asian cinema, or Bollywood. But people do, and they enjoy them because they're not trying to be anything but a good movie, and not a political message/woke propaganda.
When Black Panther came out, I refused to see it in cinema. Not because I didn't like the film, it was an decent Marvel film, and that's from someone who hates capeshit films.
It was because of the cooing of the press. The whole, there has never been a black super hero thing pissed me off, as well as the fact that it was a majority Black cast when this has been a thing not just in film/TV but Hollywood for decades.
The same Hollywood that alongside white guilt liberals and members of black democrats who didn't like the light it painted their communities in. (Pimpin ain't easy man) killed Blaxploitation cinema because of some moral do-goods and essentially crippled the Afro-American film industry in the process.
It's never recovered, and while they laud people like Spike Lee, there was a lot of talent that worked and drew a paycheck on those terrible blaxploitation films that essentially never found work afterwards. With the added irony that it's still white producers and white money that's getting any film with African Americans in it made.
I'm banking my hopes that the industry starts to lose money and fan support for the shit they're serving up and the money men get desperate enough that they actually start bringing in new blood. The only thing that will change their approach if for the fans to essentially boycott enmasse stop buying the shit they make and finally make them realize the magical pie in the sky market isn't there.
The problem is you have these old fucks who don't understand the market anymore and these 'hip, young' millenials telling them there's crowds and crowds of these people looking for 'woke' shit and look how it gets trending. These people still believe in the folly that 'bad press is good press'. The problem is the bad press is saying 'White people deserve to die and not get hired' or 'The future is female'. The problem is that they don't realize this turns off men, women, minorities as well. They cannot comprehend this. Face one of these woke people down with a minority who goes against the grain and 9 times out of 10 they will struggle to not call him a nigger to his face. They're the most racist cunts around.
The problem is that they're completely unyielding. Their ideology and cognitive dissonance will not allow them to. I posted this in the 'Deep Thoughts' thread, but their ideology and reality collide. This cognitive dissonance causes massive distress, which we see in the form of the vitriol, bitterness and anger these people spew. They retreat to people who tell them what they want to hear, which reinforces their beliefs to the point of literal delusion. And that's the problem. They don't understand that they're wrong, not everything is political nor needs to be. They also lack basic functions of empathy and compassion. They simply cannot put themselves in anyone else's shoes. That's why these products are laughable and have ridiculous plots and dialogue. They cannot relate to anyone other than their in-group.
What makes this different than other moral movements and other greedy corporations is that these people do not go looking for answers. They cloak themselves in this delusion that they're on the right side of history. Voices in the industry are constantly silenced, as are those on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and media platforms. This creates this illusion that there's this mass of wokeness out there, when in reality its only about 17% of normies support any sort of socialism. People are growing less tolerant of LGBT people. Men now only believe rape claims about 50% of the time. This is a huge problem and evident of very two distinct cultures. The problem is the minority culture is in power at the moment, which doesn't favor meritocracy, good stories or even profitability.
I think for the first time in our history, we're seeing corporations primarily driven by morality than by profitability. They sincerely wish to 'change society through art'. The problem is this doesn't work. Society is an uncontrollable mass. Censoring, shaming, isolating, de-platforming, doesn't work. It just emboldens resistance.
Another part of the equation is America's streak of 'fuck off'. America basically always had this frontier attitude of spite-fucking and not being told what to do. Culturally it works on weak, white, rich millenials but we see it failing time and time again. I think we're in for years of this until it eventually just collapses because the entertainment options have just become too ubiquitous. You can't force someone to go see this woke trash, even if you own all of it.
That's why so many of these fucks espouse Communism. They want to force this on you. Because nobody, absolutely nobody, wants what they are selling.
