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Posted on 11/10/2025 10:09:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Like autumn leaves falling from Hollywood’s once-evergreen trees, a familiar cycle is returning to American entertainment. For years, the industry insisted its experimental season would last forever, that audiences would adapt to whatever programming executives deemed necessary for our moral improvement. But nature, like the marketplace, has its own immutable laws.
The entertainment industry has been quietly recalibrating its priorities lately, though you wouldn’t know it from the panicked press releases flooding out of activist organizations. Television networks and streaming services, those great barometers of American cultural preferences, are making decisions based on an almost forgotten metric: what viewers actually want to watch. It’s a revolutionary concept – giving customers what they’re willing to pay for rather than what they supposedly need.
The shift has been gradual but unmistakable. Shows that once would have been renewed regardless of ratings have been unceremoniously canceled. New series announcements lack the obligatory checklist of representation requirements that dominated recent years. Industry insiders whisper about returning to “traditional storytelling” – code for plots that prioritize entertainment over education.
Now we learn the true scope of this transformation: LGBT characters on television will drop by an astounding 41% next season, according to GLAAD’s own tracking. Of the 489 such characters currently on air, only 192 are confirmed to return. The organization, which has spent decades monitoring and pressuring Hollywood, can barely contain its alarm. Series like Prime Video’s “Harlem” and Hulu’s “Mid-Century Modern” – darlings of the activist set – have been axed despite what GLAAD calls “wide praise from viewers.” One wonders how wide that praise really was (spoiler alert: not very) when the accountants came calling.
From ‘GLAAD’:
Nearly a third of non-LGBTQ+ Americans say that LGBTQ+-inclusive media has changed their perception of our community. With so many diverse, entertaining and impactful series being canceled at an alarming rate, it is imperative that networks and streamers do not back down.
That quote reveals everything, doesn’t it? Let me translate: they admit this was never about art or storytelling – it was about reprogramming you. GLAAD’s CEO Sarah Kate Ellis goes further, claiming there’s “hateful rhetoric running unchecked from politicians and news media,” as if disagreement with her organization’s agenda constitutes hate. She insists “84 million American adults” are more likely to watch shows with LGBT characters and points to “$1.4 trillion in buying power.” Isn’t it funny how that trillion-dollar market couldn’t save a single one of these shows?
I’ve been watching this unfold with barely concealed glee. The response from actual viewers has been refreshingly blunt. “Call me crazy but that’s the free market,” one observer noted. “If demand isn’t there, characters and shows will be canceled.” Another put it even more simply: “If you don’t make money, you get canned. Not rocket science” (imagine that). These aren’t culture warriors speaking; they’re Americans who understand basic economics and resent having their entertainment transformed into afternoon specials.
What we’re witnessing isn’t discrimination – it’s course correction. For years, Hollywood convinced itself that Twitter sentiment represented American sentiment, that a vocal minority’s demands reflected majority preferences. The great exodus of viewers to alternative entertainment has finally penetrated even the thickest executive suite skulls. When your audience would rather watch Korean dramas with subtitles than your expensively produced sermon, the message becomes impossible to ignore.
This return to market sanity couldn’t come at a better time. As America experiences a broader cultural renewal, as traditional values reassert themselves across the board, entertainment is following suit. Not through censorship or mandate, but through the beautiful simplicity of supply and demand. Viewers are voting with their remotes, their subscriptions, their attention – and they’re choosing stories over sermons.
The leaves will continue to fall in Hollywood, and that’s perfectly natural. Spring will come again, bringing new growth, new stories, new entertainment that actually entertains. Those boardroom geniuses who spent years lecturing Middle America are suddenly remembering why they got into show business: to give audiences what they want to see, not what someone thinks they need. The experimental season is ending with the quiet click of millions of Americans simply changing the channel. And honestly? It’s about time.
Sources: Source, Gay City News
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Mao Tse Dong, 1943.
For the worse!
“woke commercials, where every white person socializes with a black person”
Those are everywhere.
Recently I had lunch with my wife at a very large regional restaurant and I was curious.
Were there any black and white people sharing the same table anywhere in the hundreds of tables in the restaurant?
None.
Hopefully we are past the point in entertainment where every single show needs to have every single diverse minority that Woke Hollywood could dream up. Normal gay characters seem almost quaint in a world where every show has at least one trans character. And worse than being gay, lesbian or trans, these characters were incredibly boring. No real struggles (other than oppression by evil conservatives), not character growth, no humanity. Just plain boring.
“I hate both heterosexual and homosexual sex scenes.”
Scenephobist!
*or whatever the word for that might be* 🤣
Deviants are deviant and normal people don’t accept deviant behavior. Normies still outnumber the deviants and their supporters.
Socializes?! The implication is usually that they are married. Almost always a Black husband with a White wife - never the other way around. And a couple of Brown kids to underscore that fact.
Not that I have anything against mixed-race couples or kids - but it is so obviously an attempt to socially program us, the consumers.
And why?! They are trying to sell their products, no? So why also attempt to reprogram us?!
You might find this 45-minute YouTube video enlightening: British Ads Are Dystopian Propaganda
Regards,
I wonder how that’ll affect nutflix. Seems every show led to some gay encounter.
Chief O’Hara, dash to the roof! Flash the bat signal!
“we just want to get married and be left alone” they said....
This isn’t Leave it Beaver or Mayberry on tv anymore folks
I think GIBLETS are far less concerned with GIBLET employment prospects in TV and film than they are about their GIBLET lifestyle not being promoted and encouraged “enough” by Hollywood ... far, far less concerned.
SNL did a T&A skit, back when they were funny.
The cooking shows, Food Channel,etc. are packed full of poofters.
HGTV announces show cancellations?
The horror, the horror.
Gary Buechler, host of Nerdrotic on YT, never misses a chance to refer to the movie actor's union as the "Film Actors Guild."
My Late Gramma taught Burt Ward in grade school
I’ve been watching this unfold with barely concealed glee. The response from actual viewers has been refreshingly blunt. “Call me crazy but that’s the free market,” one observer noted. “If demand isn’t there, characters and shows will be canceled.” Another put it even more simply: “If you don’t make money, you get canned. Not rocket science” (imagine that). These aren’t culture warriors speaking; they’re Americans who understand basic economics and resent having their entertainment transformed into afternoon specials.
I won't watch a show that has a "gay" character in it.
My wife wanted to watch "The Winchesters", which is a spin-off from the tv series "Supernatural."
I noticed it only had one season. After we started watching it, I immediately noticed the "diversity", and the inclusion of a homosexual character.
I told her "Now we know why it only lasted for one season. (Supernatural had 15 seasons.)
Nobody wants to see gay sh*t.
Holy Homeroom, Batman!
Jokes aside, that's cool.
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