Screw them

Would’ve loved to see this type of support when the other unions tried to strike before the writers and actors. We work 10x as many hours, the work is 10x as hard on our bodies, we don’t get residuals like they do, and we don’t get any recognition.

LeArN tO cOdE

Set designers were replaced by graphics, stunt men also.

0:13: 📺 Michael Jam, a TV writer since 1996, discusses the challenges of maintaining a career in the industry. 2:39: 📝 The video discusses the need for authorization votes and better negotiation tactics in guild leadership. 5:06: 📺 The video discusses the reasons why actors might want to leave a hit TV show and the impact of streaming on residuals. 7:33: 💰 Actors and writers are keeping more of the money they help generate by negotiating for residuals. 10:09: 💰 There are risks involved in being a writer, including the potential loss of time and effort if a project doesn't succeed financially. 12:59: 🎥 The video discusses the disparity in wealth distribution between writers/performers and venture capitalists in the entertainment industry, and the impact of AI on their work. 15:55: 🎥 The advancement of AI technology in creating realistic actors could potentially lead to the collapse of the Hollywood industry and all the jobs and industries that support it. Recap by Tammy AI

Also the same with animators, they should offer options to animators if they want to get paid through residuals or per frame.

ath the end of the day it will be US the consumer that will pay more

Og beavis and butthead fan, that was genius.

Studios will not give in on AI cause they know it could cripple them later. If they give in then smaller start ups will eventually be pumping out tons of AI content at a fraction of the cost and crush the former giants.

Just learn to code

What You Need to Know About the Writer's Strike - Nobody misses them.

Nothing like a Vice zoom call to make me absolutely sure that I don't support the current generation of writers and can't wait for this industry to collapse

Who even watches TV anymore? So many superior options. Let them stay out forever.

I have a masters dgeree in AI. AI will not replace writers, poets, musicians or actors in the next 100 years. But it will change the way some of them work.

Ironically bad writing is probably the biggest problem of the US entertainment industry.

Your bosses don't want you, how does it feel?

The writers be dragged kicking and screaming but it's inevitable

Hit the oil rigs soy boy

The strike itself is more entertaining than the garbage these writers have been putting out. Please please I beg you keep the strike going for many years to come!

too much moustache

If we don't need writers, and we dont need actors, we can finally make good movies.

How about we pay our service workers more im not worried about this.

Michael Jam loosely reminds me of Ray Ramano

I wonder how and if writers and actors would support the visual effects / post production if they were to strike and whatnot

If it’s harder to create a career, then shouldn’t people drop out of the industry, causing competition to fall and rates rise? I feel for ppl and think changes should be made, but I do suspect there are simply too many ppl trying to make it as writers, many just not terribly talented in writing. The bosses need reigning in, and the model needs change, but there can’t be a guarantee of X ppl being employed as writers and it being a full time gig.

So glad I double majored in journalism and communications…i sensed that it would get harder for writers in the future. Now I just use my degree as basically experience as an entrepreneur starting my own businesses

After Hollywood ran off half the fan base with charges of ists and phobes when a project was criticized. And now they want fan support

If you have 10 week contract can you work out contracts to fill the other 42?

Keep on striking... forever!!!!😂😂😂

If you forget the rhetoric and look at the facts it becomes clear. The studios did not want to talk to the union prior to the strike. So why not? Simple answer, they knew the strike was going to happen and it was okay with them. The studios waited weeks before making a decent offer of about 85% of what was asked for , while ignoring key sticking points. Why was that? They wanted the offer to be rejected so the strike would continue. Then they leaked the offer to show how fair it was. If it's true that it would only cost 1% of profits to meet union demands, why would the studios not agree to pay such a small and insignificant amount? Because it's not about the contract or the money. WGA SAG AFTRA are not the only unions the studios have to deal with. There are others that they will need to deal with in the future. The studios were prepared for this, not only did they have more than enough legacy content stored and global content available, but stopping productions and wages was a huge bonus in savings. Something that the shareholders love to hear. The unions had no idea what they were up against or how well the studios were prepared. The studios were very well prepared and knew exactly what to expect and had planned for it We hear nothing from the studios. Everything we hear is from union heads, their representatives, union activists and media shills, trying to gain public support. There is no way the unions will win this.

Learn to code

Are there any interviews from ppl coming from the opposing side?

Those four shows given as his big-name items are such bad shows though. 😓

The only thing you need to know about this strike is that people don't miss them. Please keep striking, forever. Do the world a favor.

Yeah, all this is well and good, but I believe I heard that the main writers (or it might have been the voice actors) of The Simpsons make somewhere in the area of $450k or more per episode. So ZERO sympathy here. I’ll watch reruns while you all strike yourselves into bankruptcy.

Is vice just a bunch of shitty zoom calls now? Because it really sucks.

If people cared, it’d be over by now. Write your own material instead of taken what’s already been created 🤷‍♂️

TV writers are really so insulated from the rest of the country that they actually think what theyre saying is new xD

Yawn don't care😂 greedy people make too much already.

15:33 regarding AI is the core conversation here. Michael's point of view that AI is bad because it will screw everyone in Hollywood is not wrong, but it is also not a good argument against using AI. If Hollywood doesn't adopt that technology then some kid in their parents basement will & he'll be able to output competitive content at a way lower price point. I feel bad for these writers as their world is turned upside down, but this technology (like all technologies that came before it) is inevitable & it is wiser to figure out a way to leverage it then to fight it, otherwise it's time to start looking for a new career path.

I never thought I'd be on the stupid side on the internet, Yet here i am.

I can recall watching a documentary on the model makers that worked on Star Wars and when CGI came around they all lost their jobs. You never heard of any concern from the writers or actors when that happened. These people refuse to acknowledge that things are changing, their stuck in the past. The writers and actors are in for a rude awakening.... just like the model makers who lost their jobs.

I hope the entire hollywood system blows up in its entirety. It needs it.

Look at the target audience, they sit there and watch reality TV crap. Look what they did with the history channel, everything’s being dumbed down. They could pay a junior high school kid to write this garbage, and they know this, so maybe they need an A scale and a B scale..for the writers that suck

Hollywood writers should learn to code.

If A.i. wins to write Scrips then its opening Pandoras box, then they are okay to take a shot at your job too

Mike, how much $ to legaly change ur first name too "BEN"?

Let them starve…

stop moaning bro. if you don't like it learn a new trade.

99% of the output from Hollywood these days sucks, strike forever I got plenty of anime and kdramas to watch.

Could you imagine if these people actually deserved a raise? Film sucks now and these heathens made it so. Zero sympathy. I pray for a new generation of writers totally different from those on strike right now to come in and save the day

We want a Hogan Hero movie about the Last Days of WW2 !!!

Refrigerators put the ice man out of business. Computers put the typewriter repairman out of business. It looks like AI is putting the writer out of business. That's called progress.

Between cable TV and streaming there are way too many shows to watch. The market is over-saturated for everyone to make a profit. I've only made $2K for a movie I made in 1986. The US needs to stop watching so much TV, and go read a book or go outside and play!

Hollywood laughed at AI until it spit out Global Thermonuclear Race Swap for a movie script.

Snore. Some random guys zoom room. CREEPY

Cable? .... ew i have a chromecast 😂

I wonder what AI applications they’re talking about

Please end the strike Stupid people need to see Fast and Furious 17 or Thor 9 Todays movies SUCK

As a props master working in South Africa on Hollywood projects, this really sucks. Residuals?? Get a life! As your parents used to tell you - get a real job

I just got a place to fo a master's in scriptwriting but it costs 8k and i cant get funding to cover that. And looking at the way writers are bding treated, really whats the point - especially if it means getting in debt! And as an artist i live the reality of being screwed by Spotify! Maybe to make money i should be a venture capitalist!😂

I'm team AI.

They are all gonna get replaced by Ai

Now we know what Vladd TV looks like😆 That voice is way too distinctive

I’m very torn about this strike currently taking place. I’m a teacher and in my country we saw a complete strike of all teachers - early childhood, primary and secondary - for one day and the outrage among parents was really surprising and disheartening. I’m not attempting to downplay the fact that everyone should be paid what they are worth and that we all know current rates among many industries aren’t keeping up with inflation, recession prices and cost of living, but the fact that when our social welfare, health and education sectors strike everyone gets so up in arms and defensive against it, when people are openly showing support for this industrial action, it makes me very sad, disappointed and confused at the world.

I feel like most of the content for Disney Plus was written by AI.

Please look into our state situation... Manipur, India... Please Vice 🤲 We need to let people know...

Can't negotiate, only strike?

Ironically I wonder how many modelers, designers, fx artists, animators, mat painters etc that do not have the protection of the union and that now will lose their jobs because there is no projects coming in. To make a movie you might need 10 writers? Correct me if I am wrong. But I know you would need a whole fx team of a few hundreds if not thousands to finish it depending of the amount fx needed. You have the right to strike, but I have the right to not support it. Have seen enough people from the fx industry been let go because of this.

Considering that everything lazy Hollywood has produced these last 10 years, were prequels, remakes, sequels and spin-offs, I want them to continue their strike until the day hell freezes over. Let Hollywood die, maybe then we’ll actually get some producers and writers that don’t insult the intelligence of their paying costumers by feeding us the same regurgitated garbage over and over and OVER again and actually earn their living by seeking out new and original ideas.

I actually like Stinky and the Chuckleboys.

the cream will eventually rise to the top

If you want steady employment. don't go into studio writing. everyone wants to do that job......

I was with him until he said Hollywood might collapse. And then i wish it happened... With all the Eps & whine steenes will go away too

Must be embarrassing and shameful feeling when you find out your occupation is no longer necessary. Theres unfortunately just no compassion for anybody related to hollywood. Good luck

Do they get paid minimum wage or something?

Poor rich people

Amazon is hiring

Well, go ahead and tell us (exactly) how screwed you are! I have zero sympathy if you make $70k or more per year. Almost every single one of us has to put up with money and job security issues.

Everything we need to know is that woke Hollywood is jobless.....enough for us😂😂😂😂

Maybe you should have become a venture capitalist then. Don’t complain about not making enough money from a profession you chose. In the real world if you aren’t making enough money you do something different.

Fire all of them

Vice went from great news, to this CRAP….,

Right behind you.

Learn to code 😂

Learn to code then.

Writers need to find a new proffession. You're going to be replaced just like people who used to work in assembly-line and factory workers. Deal with it.

Aai's going to replace the writters just like AI is going to replace truck drivers car manufacturers and all kinds of people in other industries. you might as well face the music Hollywood is out of ideas for TV shows and movies and that's why you see regurgitation of part 10 and old sitcoms being remade its all vomit we've seen before.

Very interesting and informative; also a worry for many 😨😦

To the crybabies in Hollywood..... just go learn to code.

didn't know vice was still a thing.

Take your minimum wage like the rest of the world or stop writing. Nobody has the time or money to watch movies, play video games, or binge on TV shows. I even need to paid to write YT comments!

How do we prolong the writers strike to a permanent state of affairs in hollywood?

This video is a waste of time. Watched more than half of it and still unclear what the issues are. Just a lot of complaining and demonizing. As if the hosts spend zero time preparing and instead are just gossiping off the top of their head.

RIP Hollywoke

tv shows and movies havent been good in the last 10 years its literally 1 im 70 thats alirght i feel like this is a case of the entitled feel like they need more for the work they do when they barley even do the bare minimun already. i get the whole ai thing and i stand with the actor on that but nah this is just greed.

Writers guild on strike?, who cares?

Hey so what happens if you are writer & the show is horrible, do you get part of the debt to pay off?

Literally no one cares.

Not sure how AI can direct, but writing unto itself is undoubtedly besieged, and, if we're being honest, it could probably do a better job than most script doctors, but scriptwriting itself still needs humans; AI creative writing is very formulaic ... but probably not for long