The Great Writers Strike of 2023 is On!

Drew Carey needs to use part of his fortune to help bring The Drew Carey Show to a streaming platform. Really bummed I can't watch it anywhere, such a classic.

Speaking of:

@WGAWest
I deeply appreciate all the love and thanks. It as with every dime.
But if you really want to thank someone for those meals, thank Bruce Helford and all the Drew Carey Show writers.
They helped make me rich enough to afford it,
No writers, no $. Simple as that

https://x.com/drewfromtv/status/1708203618019819803

https://gizmodo.com/disney-vfx-union-iatse-vote-hollywood-labor-strikes-1850895304

https://www.google.com/amp/s/boundi...=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&source=TPICI

Aw, look, they a made text version of Nazi Youtube.
And UA magically found it somehow.

Can you comment on what's actually being said in the article and articulate what makes this person a Nazi in your own words? I believe I stated when this strike began that I hoped it would weed out the bad writers and we would get better writing once a deal was struck. Do you not want better writing or is THE MESSAGE more important?

Keep using that word, and it will lose all meaning. Or you could just be honest for once. "Whyyy aren't people I dislike silenced and shunned everywhere?!? "

How on earth did you get that from that webpage

Like "woke"?

They lost me at the racist human-whistles in the headline.

A simple no would have been fine.

Funny how you always find an excuse to ignore inconvenient realities. Possibly your parents INDULGED you too much.

Like litterboxes for furries?

As a metaphor for your contribution to the universe.

do ya want to start with the dog whistle of "woke diversity hires" or that the show's host has chosen to call himself "einherjar"? skip ahead a bit, and quelle surprise, they're all but chanting "go woke, go broke" which of course, has proven patently false. to the contrary, "appeal to trad, lose bad" seems to bear out. (Interesting there's a link to the retooling of Paw Patrol to include a non binary critter... ACAB extends even there, it seems, as regressives continue to lose market share).
Then naturally, there's a dismissal of diversity as being inherently anti meritorious. After all there's jsut no way brown people or wimmen could possibly be better than white guys like them. Not jsut as writers either.. they go on to point fingers at everything from Stacey Abrams to the LotR series as being crap because there's too many brown people and vaginas in the cast.

That's not even getting into the fact that the interviewee is only identified as "Script Doctor" and later the article cites "anonymous sources" (i.e. nobodys with no actual influence).

Let's leave it on this bit of rhetorical question that the article closed with:


"What do you make of this idea that woke, diversity hires will be weeded out of Hollywood writing rooms?"

What I make of it is is it's a bunch of entitled white hacks who couldn't write a good enough script to get picked up so instead they write for editorial sites like this one. Given the person who posted the link in the first place, it sure smells like the sort of cognitive reinforcement he'd look for.

Ask bud light, disney and target if it's false.

But Barbie

why? that sales of everything are down doesn't prove what you wish it did.

Like, bud light was a shit beer nobody drank in the first place. Sales being down 25% means that what, 2 people stopped drinking it?

disney, franchise fatigue is a far more plausible explanation. Although I suppose that fighting the florida government's attempts to impose morality on them has been costly.

Target tanked here before they even started... not sure what your point is with them. But again, not like brick and mortar retailers have been making gains the past decade anyways.

you mean the $3B/year profits on the doll line, or the billion and a half the movie has grossed?

I'm talking about the Barbie movie that somehow is a championship of feminism.

What did you think of it?

I haven't seen it.

Oh, from your comment it sounded like you had an opinion on its content.

I have no opinion on the actual movie, just the commentary about the movie.

you mean the highest grossing movie of the year.

1. Barbie – $1.38bn.
2. The Super Mario Bros. ...
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ...
4. Oppenheimer – $853 million.
5. Fast X – $704.7 million.
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – $684.4 million.
7. The Little Mermaid – $566.6 million.
8. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 – $522.4 million.

interesting... Black Ariel and Black Spider Man are right up there.

oh...

• 9. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – $476 million.
• 10. Elementals – $443.6 million

so let's also work in that at least half of them have women who are effective within the story and men who are imperfect, yet the magic kingdom doth still stand.


(and fuck you along with deSantis for turning Disney into the good guys. at least hitler had the decency to only make stalin seem briefly palatable for a while)

The article is a prediction or guess based on nothing other than a bone to the UAs and FFs who want go woke and go broke to be reality. The industry clearly has a demand for inclusivity and what UA and the boy hate most. Sure, a bud light can lose money when their target audience was beer swilling redneck racists. That is not all their customers, but they were going to suffer a loss when a major part of your customer base is whiny pissbabies.

The exact opposite is true for the movie and TV industry. WEoke sells because there has been a lack of material over the years and people weant to see people liker them in roles as they never had them before. Even white cishet people enjoy the diversity and are not turned off by wokeness enough to stop watching.

It is a bad guess that justice is coming for the millenials who have new inclusive ideas aver old school old and tired white guys. The fact is that "woke" means new material about inclusivity and some variation from the same old white programming that has been clearly scoring lower than things with new style.

The article is ripe with false hope for the hateful that there is a return to white sexism and racism because the dying demo is somehow going to come back to life and start watching new venues like streaming and the younger people are going to get pushed out of the industry by old white men who were retiring and selling less.

If it were true what he is saying we would have kirk cameron and the ben shapiro movie production industry making huge movies, and movies made by right wing wackos about child sex trafficking actually getting people to sit in seats rather than artificially creating sales by having people buy tickets for empty seats no one will bother with even when free.

The only reason UA actually found this article was he tried to google something that fed back his opinion to him. Of course there will be false articles like this because there is money in feeding the lies in the republican fever dreams. That doesn't change the truth that bud light boycotts are not effecting the movie industry because those people don't go see movies to begin with. They do not even attend Bern Shapiro or kirk cameron movies. Even in the end they are back to drinking bud light pisswater and target is not losing business over wokeness. They just really suck and the fad of paying a couple of extra bucks for their walmart level merchandise and pretending brand matters is just stupid. It is all just cheap chinese made merch and paying extra money top buy it in a supertarget is no different than shopping at walmart.

There is actually a toxicity to barbie, and the popularity of a movie that seeks to erase the real problems with the brand through pretending to be self aware but not doing shit to combat the body shaming and pidgeon holing of girls through a popular fashion doll is still there.

The reality is that @Steal Your Face does not have a problem with girls being pretty little things that are weighed down in professionalism and life by the expectations to maintain beauty and body which are directly at odds with limited time and resources required to get money and success in a material world. The very essence of maintaining a barbie look and lifestyle needs a man to help pay for it all and earn the lion's share of money because she has to work out, diet, and spend huge amounts of her time on beauty, shopping, and decorating or else she is just a failure.

That is what FF wants of his woman. If she is not a pretty thing he can look at while he is slobbering fucking wasted he gets mad and breaks all of her shit to teach her a lesson for demanding he actually not be a drunk fucking loser.

The only problem you have with the barbie movie will be that the kens lose. That is why you will never bother seeing it. You just hate the idea that peoople are somewhat saying girls matter and you are so hurt by that because a female with some self worth has no interest in having her shit destroyed by a fucking loser, drunk 40 year old manchild.

You are so male toxic it is amazing. Dude, stop hating yourself, and go kill UA and steal @Jenee . She has a thing for being a cum dumpster for a toxic and worthless manchild who humiliates himself on wrodforge. There cannot be too many women like that, and it looks like god is not making any more than one of them. Go fight to the death with UA as the manimals you are. That is all you are good for is the toxic agressive mating fight of a violent animal. Just make sure that someone sets up the animal cams so netflix can make a nature documentary of the wordforge right winger as you are a dying breed and soon we will have to have @Demiurge and @Lanzman kill each other over who gets to be whipped by me at the glory hole.

I didn't forget @Ten Lubak . I am just not willing to give up my rep bot as I don't think he could take any of the other males around here.

Sweaty coping and rationalizing.