Please lets get this squared away!!! Because there yet so many to which I am a part off that does not belong to a union. And we have no way now to support out households!! We are desperate and stretched to the limits!! With no relief in sight. Who is helping us!!???

Quit with the politics and get back to telling stories and more people would support you.

I'm from over the pond, but I generally support any form of strike. Will it eventually have an effect on my life? For sure. But that's what a strike is supposed to do.

@@tobiasbenedictdrager965 Ok. But I actually work in Hollywood make those movies. I understand the union thing though a lot of the people behind the camera are not! I can not pay my bills on right thing for them. And hope that is trickles down. Mostly it does not. We need this work to come back!! That is what I care about! They get what they want. Great!!! But something needs to be done to get this town moving forward again!!

@Morpheusninetwo I can absolutely understand your point and I hope a deal will be found soon. In general, it's bluntly said a mess over there with certain jobs behind the camera unionised, others not. Not all of them in the same union, etc. My main reason for why I wrote the comment, is to counter the "quit the politics" comment.

I would love to see Ryan do a skit like that.

"It's going to be pretty hard to make a movie without an experienced writer!" "...actually..."

"Super easy, barely an inconvenience, just let the A.I. do it"

This would be a hilarious sketch. I hope he does this. 😂

"I'm on strike" "Oh, I hadn't noticed. What is it you do again?"

100% with you on that

​@@brandonlee2628 my issue is... The person is telling a half truth. I get it, lots of people just hate business. But, open the financials... Stop assuming they're making money. All of these steaming companies are LOSING money. I mean... How did you think you could go from $100 cable to $10 a month with no changes.... Netflix screwed everyone over into a money losing game of who could burn money longest. Except.... Now... The free money train is over. Interest rates and inflation is up. This is financials.... Or, everyone can accept 30% price hike. Then, streaming is profitable. Right now though. I'm watching these stocks spiral into abyss. I blame the writers, because I actually do believe that we could push a 30 to 50% price hike easily if the content was good but these businesses cannot hike prices with terrible content. It's just a terrible position to be in because if the TV people cut their cable subscription than these businesses do die. The only reason that they are hanging on right now is that people still have cable and those users subsidize everyone else. This is why Netflix is stopping multi accounts. Everyone is scrapping dollars. Netflix should never have started streaming at below cost, causing everyone to lose money. But doesn't matter, content still is bad and I just don't think these companies can hike prices with bad content or they'll push people to KZfaq.

@@brandonlee2628 Every one of the should be tarred and feathered.

After watching a whole episode of She hulk and seeing pronouns used on Transformers (the kid's show) i think WE need to be on strike against writers

Cheles mamones es lo que hay. Igual hay que pagarles.

You want Warner to pay for the canceled shows with what money? They are losing money every year. It's so frustrating with people like you, you assume every business just has billions in profits. You could literally Google and see they lost 3.5B June 22, 2.3B sep 2022, 2.1B Dec 2022. 1.0B march 23. What do you expect? The company barely operates cash positive. And you want them to bring back canceled shows when they can't even afford the current stuff. People like you should be forced to buy the stocks and suffer the losses. If you really think a company is making broken profits, you'd buy the stock and be rich.... There's a reason why Warner is doing this, and it's because if they don't figure out how to run a cash positive business soon, they're dead. And this isn't a Warner problem. It's a streaming problem. Even Disney is losing money.... I don't get how you guys can't just use Google..... It takes one second to Google a company, and see if they can afford to pay.... You'd learn a lot more about why businesses do things if you look at how much money they have rather than assume every business makes money.

Fat chance.

@@Tential1I hear ya.. don’t disagree. But don’t a lot of companies “operate at a loss” but they’re simply doing some book cooking for tax purposes?

Can't the "comedians" just come up with their own material in real time? Hahahahahahahahahhahaha.

I’m not entire sure that was the point they were making. It’s more them being overworked and understaffed like what happened to nurses after Covid. Mass demand and lack of qualified nurse after large amount of them burning out and quitting cause of Covid

They are striking alongside them, but I'm not sure that SAG-AFTRA is officially striking

SAG-AFTRA must be settled before the writers strike is settled.

I don't think anyone is stunned that writers and artists don't want to be replaced by AI. In fact, most people in any profession don't want to be replaced by computers

If a computer does a job as well as a human than i think we should just give the human a pension and send him home. But so far 'fancy autocorrect' is nowhere near good enough to replace writers.

Emm Movies ?

@@Chiayiklin bud the only movie I watched this year was John Wick Ch 4, I don't watch those men in tights

No, the problem is you're too lazy to open the financials. If you did, you'd know, every single one of these companies stopped making money when we started streaming. Disney net profit is plummeted to single digits. They aren't making money. Paramount and Warner both lose money quite often. Disney movie/TV division is a massive anchor and loses money. Netflix barely breaks even, and a lot of that is accounting trickery. Dude... Look around... Interest rates are up.... The free money train is over man. Investors can't afford to fund money losing businesses anymore. The writers guild can't win this because there's no more money left.

its not a strike. its a purge.

Streaming isn't profitable. TV was profitable because of cable. Streaming was a vc, lose money thing. Except, high interest rates, so no one wants to burn money anymore. So now... They have to make streaming profitable. Disney loses money on streaming, paramount does, Warner does, they all started doing this to compete with Netflix. If you want to blame someone, blame Netflix for the low cost streaming model. There's no money. If you think these companies are doing so well, buy their stocks. Burn your money twice over. Why do you think you get to stream content for $7 a month and think that's going to fund everything.... They all know they need to double the current price to pay anyone and no one can do it because Netflix can undercut everyone as they are the only company with enough users to do this, thanks to the vc money burn pit they used. You can pay the writers though. Just, don't expect theses companies to survive 5 years losing money. Or, you can pay 50%+ more in your subscription. Then... They'll live. Otherwise, no way Disney can have a content division that loses money, and depend on parks... I mean, if you think that's smart, you take your savings, and buy Disney stock and enjoy losing your money like that. Not me... Not any investor... Hence... Investors are demanding changes.... No more free money to make content that loses money..... Why do you feel entitled to lose money?

Everything is more money for them also.

@@mrhumble2937 The writing has never been worse, however. Which is the main reason *I* cancelled most of those services before the recent troubles.

Books are always online.

Ooo ur cool

Yep. The writers better be careful they'll soon not be needed. Directors will be able to edit those AI scripts.

@@jezzidre3000 exactly

With the awful content we've been receiving these last few years, I'm ready to give AI a chance.

WGA Staff writer minimum, the lowest paid writers, make $4,546 per week, about $90,000 for 20 weeks.

@@spryh6742 Jesus. Why are they striking then?

@@Bassquake76 They spend months or even years trying to land one of those nice gigs. And after those 20 weeks have to do it all over again.

@@sd-ch2cqthen they should pick another line of work

@@Bassquake76because they’re petulant entitled brats that are stuck in their Hollywood/New York bubble and are completely disassociated from the realities of the world

No, the writers are actually that bad.... Dude, streaming loses money. Go actually read company financials. This isn't a greed thing. You feel inflation, etc. Businesses are experiencing inflation, high interest rates, etc. The party is over.... This is survival lol.... They have to stop losing money. Paramount and Warner bros especially. Disney has the parks saving them. Netflix is the only one who made it, and barely. $5 B a year for Netflix. These companies don't use ai yet. They'd have to disclose to investors. But they will. Writers were given their shot. They failed... We're going into a recession. No more free money to burn anymore. Gtfo. They were lucky investors were willing to fund losses this long. I don't understand why normal people feel entitled to companies losing money. If you feel that way, you go own the stock and watch the company you invested in burn money til it goes bankrupt.

What they're afraid of is, you'll train the ai on your best shows... So you can reproduce great content. You could train the ai on universally accepted 8/10+ movies. The AI that the writers will be using For TV shows is going to be a lot different than the basic chat gpt that you are seeing because it's going to be a much more targeted purpose ai. Two good 300k salary writers with an ai copilot is better than 6 normal skilled 100m writers. The problem is, the lower talent extras won't be able to grift anymore.

Modern writers aren't been good enough to earn a strike.

230 companies went bankrupt in 48 hours this week or last week. Paramount loses money. Warner bros loses money. Not every company makes billions. That assumption is why you couldn't understand the most basic reason why the companies aren't paying the writers. No money.... If you think paramount and Warner make billions, go buy their stocks... Enjoy watching your investment die. Disney is only making money because of parks. This idea companies always make money is hilarious.... If that was the case, investing would be easy....

There's a reason he just randomly throws numbers on the screen without quoting any companies actual financials lol. If cable TV didn't exist, you couldn't watch TV. The only reason we still have TV right now is cable TV users subsidize streaming losses. That's it. But again, if you think it's free money... Go buy the stock lol. "they make billions!" lol... Investing isn't that easy... People lose money, companies die. We're about to see some deaths. These writers wrote these companies graves. Then, refused to accept it was their own fault, and demanded more money, when their content is under performing... Hence why there isn't the money to pay them....

100% this

Good riddance. They could replace them with talented people.

@@funkydiscogod "them" ? "talented people" ? Are you one of those people that knows everybody in person?

What about when creators can't make anything good?

@@lactate This is the Internet, not broadcast TV or the local theater. No one reasonable should care about what "Hollywood" is putting out.

Excluding Netflix, where is the money coming from. Only one company profits from streaming. The issue is too much Dr. Pepper is being produced vs. demand. Where is the money coming from?

What about the good writers like the writer who the wrote the script for John Wick ? Fire them as well?

Different scenario. First writers strike, the companies were profitable, and the writers could take credit for it. The television and movie divisions are not profitable.... Like, you can't ask for money that's not there. Go away.

Whey all have the same experiences, living in the same place. Doing the same that happens. I swear they even expand their horizons the same way too. Is nice to have a predictable and controlled space but it robs a little of the casuality that fuels creativity. They may be suckers but they have to suck on something don't forget.

No

No need to learn that anymore. ChatGPT will do that for us.

I wish they would treat workers better so there's no strike too. That said, there are more shows and movies created than anyone can watch in a lifetime. You have plenty of existing content to watch and your well-being shouldn't be in the balance over a writers strike.

See what you did there. 😂

Laws, I am not a legal expert but I believe that there are laws against firing a union when they go on strike.

@@CSAlso2 Not every writer in a union.

@@vertik7 if not all then most. It’s unlikely you’re a writer in Hollywood who isn’t a member of the union

Thank you

Came here to say this.

The argument is that the corporations are forcing the quality down but cutting writers hours and pay. Half the time to write a movie? It's gonna suck. Don't want to pay for an original idea? You get Fast and Furious 15.

They would then have to pay the writers unemployment while trying to hire other writers who aren’t willing to write for low wages. Be smarter.

Right, because the execs have nothing to do with that…

They should get paid based on the success of what there writing…so you write a good series or what have you you should get a more top level income…write a flop maybe work at the gas station as a “side job” to make ends meets..very similar to boxing.

First, the writers don't decide what shows get made and second, of course the writing is garbage, some writer was payed half of what he made 5 years ago to turn in a first draft that they greenlit and made into a script without any revision. It's all gonna be garbage from now on because no one is payed enough to care as long as the corporation that hired them is making money. An original idea?! Forget about it.