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Report: Amazon Studios dropped audience ranking of Prime Video series because 'audiences found queer stories off-putting'
American Thinker ^ | 04/07/2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/07/2023 9:05:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I was loving Hawaii CSI with the beautiful background setting of Hawaii. Then toward the end if the first episode two women sexually assault each other. I was shocked. It wasn’t necessary for a great storyline and frankly, I felt ambushed, it happened so quickly. I turned it off. I will not be ambushed by these queers on my own tv in my own living room in my own home! With Prime’s price climbing, I’m really close to dumping them. One more nasty woke ambush and they lose a customer.


41 posted on 04/08/2023 6:22:58 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Several Amazon insiders say the reliance on testing and data led to a clash late last summer, when an Amazon executive said in a marketing meeting for the series A League of Their Own that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show.

You can bet that everyone one of these streaming services has developed software to track what their audience is watching, what scenes they fast-forward, and at exactly which moment they gave up on a series.

I'm certain that HBO knows that I skipped forward through the gay male love scene in the otherwise entertaining "Last of Us."

42 posted on 04/08/2023 6:47:54 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
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To: Gaffer

I’m on a whole slew of streaming services and except for Amazon Prime which has saved me many $$$ in shipping, all are free.

I find the sheer volume of films available to be amazing.
There seem to be a wholebunchalotta stinkeroos versus the occasional worthwhile movie....and that’s even before wedding out the alphabet garbage.


43 posted on 04/08/2023 6:50:49 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: Roccus

wedding S/B weeding


44 posted on 04/08/2023 6:53:00 AM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: SeekAndFind

You get 20 minutes into a film and you notice two dudes are talking and have steady eye contact....


45 posted on 04/08/2023 7:30:46 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Ge0ffrey; Mr. Mojo

I do Andy Griffith and Columbo reruns.


46 posted on 04/08/2023 7:48:07 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: SeekAndFind

I have spent two years on brit box watching old series and films.

I dumped netflix after getting surprised in the midst of a number of series with unusual subplots involving sexual proclivities.

I am also purchasing older series and films and renting them from the library. I hold the line

Just watched Easter Parade last evening for free on a streamer. Only problem is that the show stopped occasionally and the scene had to be found and restarted.


47 posted on 04/08/2023 7:59:17 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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"...domestic completion rate (customers who watched the entire series)."

So...they actually know when I stop watching a movie/series and I don't return to finish it. Which always happens when two guys or two womens kiss.

48 posted on 04/08/2023 7:59:23 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

49 posted on 04/08/2023 8:18:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It would be one thing if the stories were merely “inclusive” of “diverse” people and situations. But most of what gets produced is heavy-handed, condescending preaching to the mainstream, and virtue-signaling about the nobility of the perceived LGBT victims and their fake religion.

One show that actually handled very well the issues of gay and bi people within a straight family and community was Schitt’s Creek. It was hilarious and clever, with interesting costuming, settings and story lines for the majority straight characters as well as the “diverse” ones. Over five seasons, most episodes that dealt with “LGB” characters (there were no discernable “T’s”) were tolerable to straight people until near the end of the series, after the show had earned and unexpectedly large audience and quite a few awards.


50 posted on 04/08/2023 10:06:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Dominic01
Less than half of one percent are lately identifying as transgender, in spite of the enormous marketing campaign, including by government.

The number of trans-identified persons in the U.S. is currently 1.6 million (against 325M total population) among persons age 13+ (puberty), and concentrated at the lower ages due to mass hysteria, political pressures, and the foolishness of youth. Not all trans people continue with it or go all the way with hormones and surgery.

Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law:
How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?

51 posted on 04/08/2023 11:23:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Jean2

Once Rock grew the mustache we should have all figured out he was a swish. That show should have been called “McMillan and Beard.”


52 posted on 04/08/2023 12:56:48 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: SeekAndFind

It used to be called “jumping the shark”. Now it’s “throwing perverse sex at the screen”.


53 posted on 04/08/2023 2:29:21 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: imabadboy99
I loved the show Billions until they introduced the he/she thing at the end of season 1.

I also didn't want to watch the S&M of the D.A. and his wife.

54 posted on 04/08/2023 3:26:41 PM PDT by ELS
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To: Flavious_Maximus

#36 Around the same time as the Sanctuary series was on there was Eureka and Warehouse 13 and they went all in for obama and that killed the shows for me.


55 posted on 04/08/2023 10:58:23 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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