I love it, seeing fools at the top throw truckloads of money into projects by blue haired freaks that cut corners to get a foot in the door at the industry, then blaming us normies for Not liking the goop they throw out on tv screens and big movies!

The erasure of creativity is a natural consequence of wokeism.

Entertainment, writing, music and art in general . The cellphone and the internet stripped everyone of creativity and individualality .

Communism is a helluva drug. ☠️

Yes, it is the death of creativity. But as Chris said, the people now reaching out to him are some of the most progressive people that he knows. That means they supported, pushed for and applauded these policies until it now came to bite them in the arse.

Exactly right. Hollywood is becoming a warning label to people who like quality entertainment. It was "medium to good" mass production, that turned into "bad to medium", and will turn into "business closed for incompetence". I am re-watching the classics in my movie collection. Plus shows like "Farscape" and "Misfits". South Park and "sunny in Philadelphia" are still brilliant, produced by the creators themselves. Loki Season 1 was surprisingly good.

Decentralizing Entertainment is what Film Threat is all about!

I think that will be the result of this. Before, independent cinema lacked the funds but more recently, it's been Hollywood that is failing. The thing that kept mainstream actors and directors with the major studios, the cash, is being more widely distributed and more opportunities for small studios will come available. Plus, writers may start going to alternate studios to try to get their product made. I also don't understand how these DEI initiatives are anything other than being racist, sexist, or any other -ists here. These initiatives are basically stating that people of certain demographics cannot compete in a fair playing field and the deck needs to be stacked in favor of those demographics, regardless of talent or capability. I realize that Hollywood has had issues in the past, but there has to be a better way than this. Promoting talented directors and writers, talent and skill development classes and mentoring models, and potentially profit distribution models that reward viewership over production. I have no issues with having a talented diverse writers room, but talent needs to be rewarded rather than just diversity. These initiatives are going to ruin the films, as shows and movies that no one wants won't bring in money and a pattern of bad products will eventually ruin all future products. This woke stuff will likely result in its eventual destruction, as studios that are now tightening their belts won't go on a limb to push anything if they want to stay in business.

The Expanse series recently did diversity the right way. The entire cast and world which they lived in was ethnically vast , however their culture and “race” was NOT their (entire) Character and personality.

@@dennisrounds1996 Right. The Expanse books are very good material. Which was not butchered going to the screen. Like in "Alien" , it is not about a woman who is the big star of the movie. It is about a moving story that happens to a bunch of authentic characters - who happen to be of different colors and genders. This is the way to combine a worthy story with diversity.

It's obvious now why their communities and cities are dysfunctional, corrupt, filthy, and ugly. These people bring nothing to the table ,but pestilence

It’s part of the Kalergi Plan.

Creepy, and you're right, industry-cannibalizing. When the only thing that matters in your industry is how interesting the product is, if you don't hire based off merit, you're only screwing yourself. While the mainstream American entertainment industry fails, we're already beginning to see a renaissance of creators unconstrained by their bs. Sadly, in the long run the people who will likely be actually worse off are the ones who are coddled and made to believe their stories are better simply because of their identity. They'll get their paychecks now, but when this ultimately comes to the spectacular failure it's destined for, they're not going to be able to keep up with the rest

Communists gonna be communists. Believing in absurdities is a requirement for their world view to work.

this and covidianism got me very interested in psychology. now im almost done a psych degree with no job prospects :(

You think for yourself--they wouldn't want that anyway

Just say you're an American. Adding abjectives to everything is kinda why we have this shit world we have now.

@@TKFKU Totally agree. Generally how I do things. 😺

It'll be considered too big to fail. And recieve government money. Guaranteed.

Indeed! 'Get woke, Go broke', it is a thing. As for being too big to let fail. We'll see about that. Government has bigger fish to fry right now. So it would be up to the private sector I think to do that.

I have no problem not spending money on the garbage that's dumped out by these studios

@@CleverGirlAAH So it will accelerate Commieformia collapse by taking state money? That's great, bring it on

Look up New Discourses and search through the content. The destruction of institutions from the inside is the point of all of this. I mean, there's a bit of nuance to it, as they just turn everything into activism. It's like the long march through the institutions where it's no longer talent, hard work, and productivity that counts. This shit is everywhere.

Mr Beast is killing it along with many white male youtubers. Viewers will go where meritocracy exists.

my husband is in games. it's there, too. it's awful

And not a single thing of worth would be lost....

The independent scene is going to end up thriving. The only thing missing is the funding. If a lot creators had the money Hollywood has to back their projects it would already be over

The entire entertainment industry... in North America, that is. Meanwhile, Japan keeps hitting it big. You want entertainment? Go watch content from Japan!

And they can keep doing that only until their funds dry up. Which they will. Hollywoke right now is burning billions of dollars with this DEI bullshit and fcukery. The audience has spoken. They are refusing to patronize this woke fare, and they've made that point loud and clear. So Hollywoke can call us whatever they'd like. Eventually they'll run out of money and liquidity and they'll literally be begging us to come back. Wait it out. That's what I'm doing. They have far more to lose than we do. Without US they are nothing. Without OUR MONEY they are nothing. I'm sitting back, ignoring their woke offerings, and waiting for the begging to begin.

Take it to the SUPREME COURT!

agenda is too strong

Every company does it now.

Most writers likely know they’ll forfeit their careers by default if they launch any such action, irrespective of whether they actually win or lose the case itself.

Atlas needs to shrug soon.

Because this is legal. Sadly.

You'd think there would be lawsuits coming

Sue them, where? In California? Lol good luck with that.

Blackrock. Google Larry Fink (yes that's his real name).

Larry Fink is Jewish, maybe he wants revenge.

@@garygreen5670 "Behaviors are gonna have to change and this is one thing we’re asking companies. You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors.” ~Larry Fink

Yep. It's what I've been trying to tell my husband who's been a Union President. They're making Unions now to force companies to do things far outside anything that impacts the general working conditions.

White liberals in Hollywood have wrecked their own futures by pushing for diversity which has severely limited their own opportunities since the WGA and sAG strikes which ultimately dealt fewer job opportunities for white progressives in Hollywood.

it's the general issue with communism, it always turns into a power grab

I guess you haven't learned the history of unions and the Marxists.

It is not so strange that you find it eerily reminiscent to THE BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY. Spoiler: THE BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY were leftwing too. The hint is in their name. Theirs was just a racist flavor of socialism. The greatest trick the left has ever pulled is convincing everyone that THE BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY are rightwing, when actually they were leftwing. That is why these same tactics and behaviors keep on reappearing.

This is what happens when your empty platitudes and 'virtuousness' bites you in the arse. Creatives have two options: Fight back; or serve your sentences in a jail of your own creation.

_This is some serious fascistic mania._ Communist, not fascist. "Hollywood was always Red." --- Razorfist

⁠@@primmakinsofis614 Same difference. They’ve always been communist for sure, but the way the BoIsheviks, and the Yahtzee’s culled the dissidents within the system was similar. Both ideoIogies are two feathers on the same bird that is sociaIism.

​@@primmakinsofis614 It can be, and is, both. Let's not forget the National Socialist German Workers' Party was spurred by contorted fascist ideals

The powers that be encourage us to fight each other along the fabricated lines of identity politics - instead of looking up and realising it's the oligarch class themselves who've bought off our governments and are the real enemy. They are pauperising all of us and intend to take absolutely everything. Digital feudalism CCP style coming to the West. "You will own nothing and be happy".

They are not trying to end discrimination, they are simply trying to change to stands to gain from it.

They just want there turn with the whip. Simple as.

100% Martin Luther king will be spinning in his grave that society has forgotten his most famous quote!

The older I get, the less I believe he actually meant it.@@potatowaffle5653

Depends - I am a semi-pro writer and I would say 40% of possible publication opportunities in anthologies and magazines EXPLICITLY say "BIPOC or LGBTQ writers only." I did complain about one "One Act Play" competition as it said this and the topic was..... "tolerance and inclusion!" I was told this was legal in areas where groups were under-represented. Because as we all know, the theatre is particularly hostile to gay people. /sarc Basically, they make up the rules as they go along and unless white people wake up, they can look to the likes of Zimbabwe and South Africa to see what the future holds.

@@JamesBurrTV I think it is already too late. It is too widespread. It even spread to american Science Fiction Anthologies. As a POC person you get one week MORE in deadline. And so on. Being from Europe i am just scared that shit will swap over to us.

Entitled kids, my work is the same work is hard give me easier work, it's aweful

or "where you're from". I asked some one that not too long ago and was astonished to be told by some bint that I couldn't do that as it was racist. I was flabbergasted. I'd been asked this at various times of my life and never found it offensive, annoying or insulting and was always happy to answer.

Could it be because your job market does not directly influence or preach to the masses world wide? Try to Influence or groom children? Try to change or shape public opinion? If it doesn't, then it is a low priority field for use as a platform for things like bringing down the patriarchy, Fostering entitlement, scewing the mindset of the youth, etc.

​@JennySparkz A question like that can mean "Are you from America?" or "Are you from this state?" or just "Are you from this town?" There's nothing racist about it, and I refuse to be scared to socially interact like a normal human being because of someone else's chip on their shoulder.

​@@hope-cat4894It isn't even an organic 'chip'. It's a chip grown in the lab of humanities departments in academia.

The WGA is a union, not a job. The survey is not necessarily illegal, but what they plan to do with the information may be. Will the survey result in membership loss or loss of benefits? Can WGA members refuse to take part in the survey without reprisals?

They are not expecting a different result. They are getting the exact product they want to produce. How many times to they have to do this before _you_ learn that they arent going to change while the DEI cash spigot is turned on?

It's on purpose.

Kalergi Plan

That’s a sign to get out before the fall.

My workplace has hired several diverse people, some of whom cannot do the basic job functions, or speak English. Fun when trying to communicate basic functions like schedules and training activities...

I will also say start looking for alternative employment if you can.

I will also say start looking for alternative employment if you can.

Merit? 🎖 I'm a white male, license security. Did a FEMA DHS site, good $ Nov 2022 to May 2023. The sites, shifts vary. When I asked why I could not get 1 regular post, DHS site long term, I was told "other" guards had scheduled. These guards often blew off or screwed up, which meant I wound up working 48-60hr a week. The mgrs didn't want regular, steady proven staff.

I guess they forgot that most people don't like being told what to do. We already get enough of it in our daily lives. I certainly don't want my entertainment to be pushy.

@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese well I left. Bollocks to them.

Yup, it's like they forgot marketing 101. Where I live a bunch of brands said they weren't doing sales because consumers need to be taught to consume less and that sales are bad. Bearing in mind we're in an inflation crisis and people are feeling the pinch. Went down like a lead balloon obviously.

@@Songbirdstress I'd sit in the meeting room and listen to them yarping on about 'good cause' this and 'important message' that. I just wanted to know if people would find it cool and exciting.

Sounds like China’s communist revolution.

What could possibly go wrong? Especially in a government setting where certain groups may be highly represented? 😀

Racism as a concept was created as a weapon to destroy white society. Pointing out the double standard is pointless.

As a gay man, it was a painful experience when my hijab was tugged at in High School.

Unironically, that is one reason Hollywood is loosing billions of dollars now.

They did NOT have good intentions. I don't know how anybody can still think that at this point. It's genuinely baffling.

The difference between us and the nutcases in support of this nonsense is that we understand that this was a joke, humor, sarcasm, levity. They...do not.

pathetic. there's a wonderfully sad book on Brits from the 'Greatest Generation' written in the early 00s on what they thought of the current state of the UK, was the sacrifice of the war worth it? would their comrades and friends killed be happy with Britain today? the overwhelming response was the Great Britain had been sold out from under them, and no longer belonged to the Brits but to the foreigners. and they resented not being able to say boo about it because of 'being racist'. terribly sad. Europe is for Europeans. simple as that. the US has so much friggin space I do not understand the hate here for immigrants. we do not have thousands of years of culture and heritage to keep alive, the US is basically a living version of Monopoly. i think any human who wants to move here should do so. its 'The New World' after all. If Americans wanted to keep the US white they never should have passed the immigration act of '65. that ship has long sailed, so lets make the best of it and try and make the best most humane country possible. wow, why did i even type this out? The USA will never rebound, every year coming up will be more unstable than the last. we're living through the collapse right now.

so an Arab instead of a Jew

Jews were behind the immigration act of '65. Just like it’s jews like Larry Fink behind DEI. White people don’t even know they’re in a race war and losing badly.

Was thinking the same. Right or wrong, not everyone wants to be a mentor. Some of these older writers may have scratched and clawed their way up and may not wish to (overtly) mentor anyone. 🙂

Anywhere in Asia or India. Been watching more and more from that side of the planet - and less and less of American industry. Now we know to monitor the writers more closely rather than just the directors. Won’t take long for the money to move away from Hollywood failure.

Too many normies, sadly. They could be setting up concentration camps for white people and probably half of them would be saying it was all a "far right conspiracy theory" because they didn't want to be called "racist." With so many morons and cowards around, such a thing cannot be set up. However, even these cattle know what they don't like and don't want to watch, so we may still see the end of those comapnies that have been infected by Woke..... eventually.

Enjoy your indie movies that no one will watch and wont be streamed. These big companies control 95% of the eyeballs

​@@roarbertbearatheon8565That's why we have youtube.

@roarbertbearatheon8565 It's not just indie films. A lot of successful stuff comes from outside Hollywood. Godzilla minus one, Squid Game, lots of stuff. Even HBO gets some content made in Europe where the WGA isn't a thing. Like House of the Dragon. Netflix does the same. That's beside the point. You misunderstood the comment. I didn't say for writers to drop major studios, I said that major studios should stop hiring shitty writers, and if the WGA is getting in the way get writers not in the WGA, whether they are independent or outside of the USA. Hollywood keeps releasing bombs or content nobody wants. At some point, it's going to break them. You just have to look at Disney, WB, Paramount, etc. To see that happening.

@@KarateWerewolf Nobkdy saw godzilla. Most people don’t watch foreign movies. If your counter point to nobody watching films ourside of big studios are foreign films nobody watches, then I don’t know what to tell you. The WGA is film and television for 95% of people, what they do affects the majority of film goers. Godzilla isn’t even a drop in the bucket conpared to that

@roarbertbearatheon8565 you missed the part of my reply about content being developed elsewhere and put on major streamers. House of the Dragon and One Piece live action are 2 random examples. My point is that it can be worked around easily if they wanted to. And now they have more of a reason to do so. Alternatively, they could also just have a single writer. It's permissible under WGA guidelines. They aren't forced to have a writers room.

Pretty much. Outside of cities, a lot of this behavior is still abnormal and would get you fired or isolated. The only reason it festers in cities is because it's become part of the culture, and it's forced from the top. Look at names like Martine Rothblatt. It's just socially awkward, vaguely autistic rich people who think they're so logical that they need to educate the everyman and save the world.

Have you noticed that outside of a few major metropolitan areas most people aren't woke, yet most big companies are pushing these messages and practices the hardest. What's happening isn't some grassroots shift in culture like the 60's, all this stuff is a top down movement where the people in charge want this. What's the end goal I don't know but it definitely doesn't seem to be real equality, profitability or prosperity. Edit: the issues I pointed out are most visible in the entertainment industry, but these problems have spread to education and industry across the board in the western world.

Unironically "Period" is the best way to describe this. How else will "The Patriarchy" be defeated without burning everything to the ground while pretending that's not what's happening. I couldn't think of something more evil.

There is a reason this is only happening in the West and in white countries. It is an anti-white movement as simple as that. Most white people are blissfully racially unaware. Trouble is, they are being targetted by people who are solely motivated by race and who are utterly dedicated to their goals which, despite what they say about being about fairness and tolerance and representation etc, is actually quite the opposite - it is about punishing and ending white people. They WANT to bring them down and if that means ending Millennia of civilisation that gave these people freedom, liberty and the free speech to do what they are now doing, they don't care. People need to wake up, and quickly.

Oh no, things change. You see, a lot of this "oppression" they were fighting was visions in their heads. Their "oppressors" were never really oppressing them, but the new oppressors, they will punish us forever for the crimes they made up in their minds.

Guaranteed there are already cases being built. Lawyers waiting, salivating

To my mind, it's discrimination. There are demographic sections that a company would like to know about a new hire but you, as the person looking to be employed, don't have to fill it out and it's usually optional any way. The WGA form should be illegal. DEI to me is just affirmation action but with a new coat of paint on it and they both need to go.

what is the road to hell paved with again ?

You're to generous. There's a lot of malice in there, too.

@@johnduquette7023 Yes from some, but not most. In the same way they slip into portraying “our side” as racist and sexist…. some, but not most. I mean which is more likely, a generation turned malicious almost overnight, or social media makes it easier to misunderstand and misrepresent?

​@ian-flanagan You forget that one of the major draws to this objectively stupid ideology is that it gives these people permission to be vicious and nasty to other people. It's what sucked people in as much as looking virtuous. Thinking quantitatively in terms of "all" or "most" or "a minority" is a framing that works against you. You're dealing with the current these people have thrown themselves into, not rational beings.