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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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I turned off the “The Man in the High Castle”, when they made Ed an onscreen kissing homo. “Breaking Bad”/Better Call Saul got it right, the homo was a bad guy (Gus), whose extraordinary planning and strategy was clouded by homo related rage, leading to his ruin. Too bad, good chicken.
Back to the closet I say!
Maybe you should use a different term until November is over. You know, Thanksgiving turkeys and all that.
;^)
With so much faggottry on TV, it outweighs that in real life.
yes, the folks who run Hollywood, do not like White folks. It’s like when the Babylonians or Assyrians would take over a part of Israel, and flood in their own people, to breed their enemies out. It’s almost like the folks in Hollywood use the ancient breeding playbook.
Hollywood is their own worst enemy and their own means of destruction.
During Covid when people had to stay home because of government interference, everyone subscribed to every streaming channel they could have something to watch and they would sit and watch anything that was up there.
So there was a huge demand for new content, and the studios rushed to meet. It was a mini golden age for them.
That period is over and it pretty well has destroyed the theater business. There has been a slowdown in streaming to the point that there’s been a cut back in orders for new series and entertainment of all sorts.
The Hollywood writer strike certainly didn’t help matters they we’re over concerned about AI and now they’re worse fears of come true to some extent.
Now that people are more selective about what they want to watch. They are now rejecting a lot of stuff that they don’t care anything about and unfortunately, that includes the LGBQ agenda.
There is a reason that a streaming channel like Tubi is successful even with ads because they focus on the older stuff that people want to watch, and it is extremely profitable as compared to other streaming channels.
The industry has changed and it is not going back. It will have to continue to evolve. It wants to survive.
Lands end catalog is full of b&w couples and families.
Llbean.com cut back a bit.
When people watch a show, they want to watch it without having mental combat. Adding rainbow people and stories only caters to a small percentage of the audience.
Because Hollywood is not gay enough
I used to watch Wy it’s your computer Wyonoma Earp, on the Sci Fi network. I swear 100 % of the characters weee LGBTQ.
I could not watch anymore due to this became about the only storylines.
never watch those but there’s plenty everywhere.
Lol what white people
😂👍
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