Posted on 08/08/2022 3:53:09 AM PDT by george76
They’ll never admit to it openly, but getting woke makes companies broke.
Hollywood has been overtly progressive for decades, but this is nothing compared to the social justice invasion since 2016.
After around five years of an unprecedented leftist onslaught on the entertainment industry we are finally starting to see the rampage lose oxygen. There’s a weakness within woke productions that the alternative media has been pointing out for a long time – They don’t make a profit because they are designed to appease a minority of leftist zennials that don’t have any money. This is the wrong crowd to rely on for cash flow.
It is fair to say that the entertainment industry was partially conned. First, there are those tantalizing ESG loans that can be easily had as long a company loudly declares their fealty to the social justice agenda. Then, of course, there is the fact that many corporate CEOs and marketing people track Twitter trends with the ignorant assumption that Twitter is actually a reflection of the real world. The woke mob on Twitter is amplified by the company itself, while most contrary voices are stifled and buried. Anyone using the Twitter echo chamber as a marketing gauge would be led to believe that leftist ideology is the prevailing ideology of the nation. It’s not even close.
Some companies are finally realizing this fact and are taking action to reduce their exposure to woke content, or otherwise perish from loss of viewership. Here’s the thing – Leftists could take over every platform for media distribution (they almost have), but they still can’t force the public to consume woke content. Eventually, the loss of viewers and profits is going to hurt their bottom line.
Warner Media (now owned by Discovery) seems to be on the forefront of the purge of leftist content. Under chief executive David Zaslav, Discovery is aggressively dissecting Warner to understand why a company with so many iconic brands and franchises is continually failing at the box office and on streaming. Zaslav is now dumping far left content like the poison it is.
Most notably, Zaslav was behind the torching of news service CNN+ after less than a month of operation when it utterly failed to pull in subscribers. Now, he has shelved the $100 million ‘Batgirl’ movie, a woke travesty with woke directors which test audiences hated. He is also reportedly cutting the impending Supergirl movie, which rumors indicate was designed to replace the beloved Superman franchise with a female version played by a race swapped actress of Colombian descent (the original Supergirl is supposed to be white and blonde).
Another event that shocked leftists was Netflix taking an ax to “First Kill,” a lesbian vampire series that no one asked for and apparently no one watched.
This was after Netflix canceled a host of woke programming in the past couple of months, including a show called “Anti-Racist Baby” written by well known Critical Race Theory propagandist Ibram X. Kendi, and another animated show called “Q-Force” (Queer Force).
HBO Max recently canceled their “Gordita Chronicles” after only one season; the show based on a Dominican immigrant family heavily pushed leftist narratives of victim group status and depicted America as a racist and oppressive nation. No mention of the fact that millions of non-white people try to sneak into the US every year even though it is supposedly “bigoted.”
The examples of purged woke programming go on and on. This is a smart move by the entertainment media as audiences make it clear with their dollars and their viewership that they don’t want to watch leftist garbage. However, is it too little too late?
Some companies like Disney have chosen to foolishly double down on woke content (after numerous box office failures) and others like Warner have lost a lot of good will from their customers. Corporations and marketing people have long sought to entice customers by researching what audiences want. But, the new model is to simply TELL customers what to buy, and shame audiences into compliance with a product if they don’t like it. Since 2016 the strategy of media has been to ATTACK customers in response to criticism rather than listening and learning. This hasn’t gone over well. Today these businesses are paying the price for their trespasses against the free market.
It is unlikely that they will be able to win back audiences anytime soon, if ever.
I’m watching “The Offer”, it’s a series that shows how the Godfather was produced, it’s great.
Like they say, this was a movie about “Families”, it was a mega hit, maybe they should go back to that. Oh, and guns and cigarette smoking didn’t seem to detract from the success.
Once people change their patterns of leisure, it is hard to change it back.
Card clubs used to be a big thing for my parents. Now, we have video games on line.
Same with this. We used to watch a lot of movies. The most recent one was Maverick, which I enjoyed a lot but was not a “great” movie.
Yeah, It’s A Wonderful Life is pretty out and out propaganda done VERY well.
The success of the new Top Gun might have been the tipping point.
That is a catchy little pubic hair jingle though. They even worked in a little social justice theme. And the dancing pubic hairs - marketing genius.
And on the opposite side, I purchase nearly ALL products advertised on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom. Also the products advertised on One America News, The First and Real America’s Voice. Often times these products are more expensive than the generic brands, but I buy them ONLY because they advertise on patriot networks.
I know it’s not “entertainment”, but I just walked by a huge display of homo Oreos. I thought we only had to endure that nonsense in June.
Exactly. It’s like a money laundering scheme to fund bad stuff without having to declare on taxes.
Also be sure to go to Mike Lindel’s My Store MANY, MANY small businesses there ALL American made!!
“advertisers have already moved on to online and mobile phone mediums.”
I looked in to Patriot Mobile because the were a sponsor of CPAC. The only Android phone was the Google brand.
Nope!
Tubi is a free movies website that offers religious movies under its “Faith” category.
The success of the new Top Gun might have been the tipping point.
This right here. Top Gun Maverick showed that there is a LARGE appetite for entertainment that appeals to "normal" Americans.
I find myself watching old movies. Some are quite good, e.g. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930, which is a masterpiece.
When my children turn on a recent movie (21st century and a little earlier) it's garbage. I have a hard time getting through it. They are so predictable, so banal and vulgar, and so mind-numbingly boring.
I made a rule that anything that violates my sense of taste will be switched off. That happened a few times, and now they know better than to switch it on.
In fact my boy, 14 years old, instinctively fast-forwards sex scenes when they show up.
I have not been to a movie theatre in years--with one exception: Where the Crawdads Sing. I had read the book and liked it very much. I checked out the parental advisories and took my wife and children. It follows the book rather well (I hate it when Hollywood, in its usual banality, decides to improve on a winner). It's a good movie.
My regional bank just got bought by a larger regional bank.
The demographics of people who actually use these banks is heavily white—probably 95%+.
The first big picture in the literature the new bank sent out in its general information package.
A black baby.
They are not trying to replace whites.
Nope.
;-)
Amid all the stories of dying newspapers and magazines and declining viewership for television news, Right of center news is booming. Look no further than the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, the Epoch Times, Tim Pool, Podcast of the Lotus Eaters (Sargon of Akkad) and on and on. Positively booming.
Its the same story in movies and TV. Netflix, Disney, Time-Warner, they’ve been getting crushed. Meanwhile right of center or just traditional minded entertainment startup companies have been doing quite well and are growing.
Its probably too late for the likes of CNN or CBS/ABC/NBC to ever recover. Their credibility is completely shot with audiences. Its probably not yet too late for the entertainment companies to get audiences back if they would drop the woke BS but unless they do a U-turn, it will get to the point that more conservative entertainment companies will have too much of a foothold in the market to be stopped - just like in the news business.
Yep. I believe in punishing my enemies.
I no longer buy coke products.
I will never again buy a gillete razor.
I don’t buy anything from Massachusetts - even guns.
I will never fly with American or Delta again.
I don’t buy anything from Amazon.
I go out of my way to avoid using or doing business with Google.
I have bought my last Apple phone.
There are a whole lot of tech companies I go miles out of my way to avoid.
I don’t watch pro sports.
I switched away from AT&T and will never go back.
The list goes on. There are two sides to a culture war.
They seem to have forgotten that.
No doubt at least half of everything put out by Hollywood is for propaganda purposes. From what I have read that started back in the 50s.
Who are the gate keepers on content production
Homosexuals
No question
I’m binge watching Animal Kingdom which is nasty and sort of makes one feel guilty like watching porn
You can tell queers are the ones formulating the plots and arcs
Heavily laden with a homo and his missteps
Some gratuitous
Much more nudity of women than men
The hetero sex is always no foreplay and fast and kind of rough or BJs
Fags don’t get how men and women do it
The queer scenes however are of course often tender and loving
I think Hollywood is at least a third queer at decision or screenwriting levels
If at all possible, I do not financially support businesses that push this racist black supremist agenda with their fake reality of the racist & violent feral animal cult.
It’s certainly indicative of the evil managing these businesses.
The western oligarchs hate us—and they are beginning to get more open about it.
I just saw some liberal think tank type (Pew) on CSPAN talking about “changing demographics” and saying that the natives are getting restless because “maybe we moved too quickly”.
But—they concluded that it did not matter, that “the cake was already baked” and white people were &^%$ed.
Their version of “democracy” is where they rule and we sit down and shut up.
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