I'm watching the newest Netflix show, Shadow and Bone. It's YA fantasy, based on books. I read most of them and I have an opinion on them. Basically, the author used to have some nice ideas, but then it all devolved into typical teen girl fare.
But what Netflix does is so typical of what happens with shows and movies now. The main character in the books goes through this long period of being a fish out of water. An orphan girl suddenly becoming a powerful person, living in the royal palace. Everyone is superficial and a total backstabber, they make fun of her. They have gone through the same kind of rigorous training through abuse, but nobody tells her, so she feels she is worse than them.
Then in time she finds her place, and it turns out everyone else also felt those things.
In the show everyone, except like one girl, automatically accepts and loves her, but then mean people are... RACIST, because she is half their world's equivalent of Asian in the show (she was 100% white in the books).
Why do these people always, always trade universally understandable human emotions for in-your-face, comical Muh Racism? It's not like she would have suffered any less if they went with everyone being a catty bitch to her.
It almost feels like the creators don't understand human beings have feelings other than oppression. Like you can be lonely even if you are not coloured. You can be an outsider without having the gays. You can have limited opportunities without having a vagina.
But that's too complex for them. Too much thinking.
Say what you want about the Middle Ages, but the religious artists who weaved Christian themes into their work at least managed to make beautiful works of art.
These people can only make a parody of Stalin-era 'socialist art'.
Now with statistically unlikely gays and random blacks in every white group.
Those old timey, Christian artists were seriously educated about the technical aspects of their art form and they weren't allowed to settle for lower standards. Now every girl with that lesbo combover hairstyle gets hired.
The good thing about their work being so awful is that it will die with their ideology, rather than being appreciated centuries or millennia from now, like Notre Dame or the Parthenon.
This is core to the two main reasons most media now sucks:
Things made now are the equivalent of processed foods, and they’re now laced with cyanide because people have been convinced that’s a virtuous pursuit. This is a far cry from how things used to be, which was a celebration of successful ideals and a championing of the human experience. Now it’s toxic ideas and a degradation of the human experience. China’s currently positioning itself to try to do the opposite. We’ll see how that goes for them since it’d lead to the CCP being overthrown.
This is one of the biggest lies constantly being spread in supposed anti-Leftist groups.
This idea that corporations are stupid enough to keep making products for this non-existent demographic to make "mad money" has always been a lie, because none of their junk sells, and it's been that way since 2014.
People are still spouting this lie even while the comic book industry -- in all its Progressive degeneracy -- continues to lose money hand over foot, while manga (which hasn't been completely co-opted yet) continues to grow hand over foot by comparison.
Marvel's been in this slump for nearly a decade and people are still saying "lol the execs keep listening to Twitter spergs who don't buy their product." No, that's the excuse people are fed so the corps can keep producing propaganda with the express purpose of indoctrinating people and normalizing the Liberal Progressive ideology.
After a decade of seeing no ROIs on these abominations shareholders SHOULD have had all the board ejected for gross incompetence, but they haven't. Why?
Because it's not about the money it's about the message.
Look at Remedy Entertainment, it took them nearly TWO YEARS to sell 2 million copies of Control across SEVEN platforms.
https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/09/control-has-sold-over-2-million-copies/
They consider that good, though, even though during seventh gen AAA titles used to sell 2 million copies over the course of three days (or less). That was back when they used to make games for gamers.
Some products still sell like that, though. Look at Valheim. It's a game made for actual gamers, and it isn't littered with Liberal Progressive nonsense.
That indie title had no marketing budget but sold 2 million copies in under FIVE DAYS: https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/02/15/games-e-consoles/valheim-feito-por-cinco-pessoas-jogo-vende-2-milhoes-de-copias-na-steam/
But it has nothing to do with the quality of the product, it's about making sure that they're hammering home the message.
Even the processed food analogy is wrong, because at least some processed foods are enjoyable, the dreck they're producing isn't enjoyable in the least bit, it's not made to be. It's made to normalize their ideas for the current and next generation, and with almost no one offering push back, it's going to work.
An entire generation of kids will grow up with this nonsense and end up finding themselves convinced that all this Liberal Progressive dreadfulness is "normal".
I’ll disagree on many points here because I’ve worked with many of the companies people are complaining about that are spewing out leftist garbage, and I’ve been party to many wide-reaching decisions made in the following way:
This may be true but in a true capitalistic market place, you don't get to keep making these bad calls. It's not just "Hey, a few billion here, a few billion there. We'll write it off on our taxes."
These consistent losses over the span of years has to be propped up by something other than poor management. Shareholders wouldn't put up with it. There is something driving the money that's not greed or ineptitude, even if that's what they want you to believe.
Profits don't matter any more.
Netflix has never made money. It is enormously in debt.
But it will never have to repay it.
It is all about the propaganda. Netflix is a loss leader for total globalist domination.
Netflix has been cashflow positive since last year.
The reason people don't care about net debt is because it's assumed the money they borrow will be sunk into capital assets (ie. the shows, or new studios, or other "one-time" costs), and those investments have been coming closer to paying for themselves every year (until last year, when they started making more than they cost).
Netflix's content is a fixed cost for the company. They need just enough new stuff to keep people from leaving every year, but they don't to add, say, another show for every million subscribers. It was only a matter of time before the math worked out in their favour, based on what they were posting for EBITDA.
Thank you!
You clarified it so much more succinctly than the prolix that was my comment.
Shareholders are given explanations for why things tank. More often than not it’s based on similar logic as wokeism and they assume market forces or Star Wars fatigue or racism is why things tank because they’re told that by people with made up titles and Wikipedia degrees. Seen it happen. Can’t say that’s all companies but many of the companies you guys are talking about are people I’ve worked with and seen that happen to.
That's a fine example of when it happens the first or second time.
But you completely skipped over my examples of Marvel, DC and gaming companies who have been doing it for the past decade now and have only saw profit margins shrink drastically on new products, especially the comic book industry.
In gaming, the only major profit movers are digital recurring spend (i.e., cash shop or loot box items). Product sales (other than Nintendo) are in the absolute gutter, and they're trying desperately to hook people on subscription based models.
As I said in my previous comment, the whole "dumb execs, lol, they don't know any better" works the first couple of times as an excuse, but when this has persisted for nearly a decade and the results are mass amounts of people either tuning out, dropping your product, canceling the subscription, or boycotting to the point where the revenue keeps dropping, and eventually profits follow suit, you can no longer use the "dumb execs just don't know, lol" excuse.
Another perfect example is WWE. All their SJW pandering has not resulted in more engaged fans, it's resulted in less. Fewer and fewer people are tuning into their weekly shows. Idiots keep using the excuse "b-but muh streaming WWE Network" which also has an abysmally low amount of subscribers. In fact, if you combine WWE Network subscribers and their weekly TV show ratings it's still LESS than what they were getting during the Ruthless Aggression era.
Even before the Plandemic, ticket sales were WAY down compared to previous eras. Back in the day you used to find normal folk walking around and about town with Austin 3:16 or The Rock t-shirts. Heck you would even occasionally see some 619 or Cena t-shirts during the mid-aughts. These days? Despite the WWE pushing people like Becky Lynch to the moon, you'll be lucky to find a non-wrestling fan who even knows who she is, much less will you spot average people around and about with a shirt on.
Long story short, the "they're doing it for the money" excuse doesn't hold water when you actually compare the quarterly finances of any of these woke companies. No one who has jumped into that poisonous pool has actually come out of it bustling with profits.
You can take a look at most publicly available financial sheets and compare the quarters from before a company went woke to after they went woke, and the numbers usually speak for themselves.
They should fire those kids if they loose that much money on a 200 million dollar film or video game that is being created and being told we need Transgenders and gays because of diversity it sounds like a sex cult robots came up with these ideas then actually knowing.
Hell, I felt the same when they made Warrior Nun Areala TV series based on the indie comic by Ben Dunn on Netflix and they turn that show into shit. They made Shot Gun Marry into a Black woman but at the same time the actress did alright but that whole show wasn't good enough which was cancel.
The social media manager types usually stay with a company for as minimal a time as possible to jump ship and build a longer LinkedIn resume. Personally, I see resumes on there that show someone only stays with companies for 6 months to a year and I assume that person is an asshole.
In the working-class world, if you are at a company for less than a year it's typically a black mark on your resume.
They should of hire the person behind the Sonic the Hedgehog account on twitter that person is doing a far better job of marketing Sonic games and other stuff by shit posting Sonic memes on twitter without trying to be political.
The progressives' relgious degeneracy is appropriately reflected in their art.
Hell, even the soviets made decent music.
Hard bass!
Post-soviet.
Correction: garbage that resembles a parody of Stalin-era 'socialist art'.
I think it's simply because they don't want to or simply can't give their characters actual flaws. Antagonists can't have valid or even understandable reasons for not liking the protagonists, it has to be something they can't control or didn't do. So instead of a character being obnoxious and rude and gaining a rival, it's just "oh they don't like me because they are a bad person, I would never do anything to deserve anyone's dislike".
Basically their characters can never be disliked for any not automatically invalid reason, otherwise it might suggest they aren't wonderful perfect beings. And suggesting a character of "X" social group is not 100% good people is not acceptable.
And I'm sure there are healthy doses of incompetence and a lack of talent/passion bolstering these poor decisions.
It’s simply propaganda. Weak straw man characters that are created to reinforce preconceived ideas of the ghosts and ghouls in their head.
It has the added bonus of being able to easily sell to a pre determined market of people wanting to be told how enlightened and virtuous they are.
The White women who watch Lifetime movies DO NOT want to look at niggers.
Fact.
You hit the nail on the head.
It's all about propaganda.
I can't believe people still don't understand that yet.
They don't care about delivering a good show to you; they don't care about keeping to source material or providing you with notable or noteworthy entertainment.
They want to brainwash you and indoctrinate you with their perverse ideology... the Liberal Progressive ideology.
Given that so many people out there are unwilling to acknowledge the brainwashing, incapable of understanding WHY they're being brainwashed, and those who justify it in order not to feel castigated or shunned by the Liberal Progressive zeitgeist, I would say that they've mostly been successful in turning a lot of people into brain-dead sheep.
The idea is to eventually erase any semblance of pride in white identity, completely absolve masculinity in pop-culture, and then convince people that they're all gay/lesbian/etc., to join the ranks of the Rainbow Reich.
A lot of the indoctrination comes from constantly finding popular media most people grew up with or enjoyed when they were younger, and then transmuting it into a grotesque plateau in which to preach their politics, and for Netflix it 100% includes one of the following:
1: Miscegenation 2: Homosexuality 3: Child grooming 4: White bashing 5: Moral minority 6: Overt feminism
Hey! I know lizards that are far more empathetic, beautiful, and warm-blooded than these disdain-for-blood hatemongers!
My dream is to buy a gargoyle gecko. They are super cute. Probably much nicer too.
Because they are actual lizard people from the hollows of the earth.
At this point, I'd rather see movies made by actual lizard people from the hollows of the earth. They'd probably have actual characters and logical plots.
Because they lack the nuance to write believable characters, which means they can't write believable villains either. An unbelievable villain runs the risk of either not being taken seriously as a threat (thus undermining the message and underdog story of overcoming them) or rubber banding into amazingly awesome to watch (thus making the protagonist look worse or not be the center of attention).
So they cash in cheap "of course you would hate these people because this is 300% evil without any fun" tokens and make them bigots of some sort.
There's actually a very VERY small pool of filmmakers now who are all funded from woke controlled corporations who also own the news networks. Disney (ABC/ESPN/FOX/Marvel Comics/Star Wars/Hulu) Universal (NBC/Comcast) Warner Bros (HBO/CNN/DC Comics/Cartoon Network/ATT) Paramount/Viacom(CBS) Netflix
That's it - Those 5 content providers also control the US' major news organizations with FOX still being an outlier, and a good chunk of the internet in the US. You can have hundreds of film producers but, ultimately, they're told what to make by those paying the bills - and that would be one of these 5 who've all coordinated their social justice policies.
It's time for some competition...
Because they're pedophiles.
Progressive Death Cult programming and conditioning. Feminist hegemony. A lie, repeated often enough and with conviction, becomes your reality.
Do not watch TV. Get your T levels right. Lift weights. Do not eat processed foods ever: nothing that comes in a box or package. Stop giving a shit what other people think of you. Take responsibility for your life: your future, your decisions, your ultimate life outcome.
it's very difficult these days to find good media that isn't being used as a vehicle for degenerate messaging and relentless virtue signaling. i've had more luck looking for older movies and shows. netflix is degenerate garbage, you can do better!
Watch old westerns and crime movies from 1930-1955.
Incredibly good stuff.
And the quality of the dialogue! Great!
If you type in "indo + movies" you will find lots of indonesian-based movie sites where you can quickly download endless numbers of old movies from around the world. They get shut down occasionally but then more just pop up.
Creativity comes from connection to the divine. The more you severe that connection sufficiently, the less capacity for creativity you have.
Because most of the audience is too dumb as fuck to understand nuance.
I've been thinking about this for a while. First off, imagination is an actual talent that not everyone has. Ask someone to tell a story and most can't.
There's also a need to try out ideas. You need to go through bad ideas and edit to come up with the good. For tech that means trial and error. For stories, it means going through dark stuff and difficult bits.
Since we live in a society that dislikes badness, we can't edit. Therefore we can only stay on the basic. We dislike those that can make stories, because they are bad, therefore only the good can be hired. No editing and no imagination means things go stale.
Be sure they’re 1) lazy and 2) afraid of offending anyone. Culture has decided who the oppressed are and they won’t go against that. There aren’t even any new ideas! Just books made into shows/movies, sequels, redos (looking at you Justice League) and apparently anything superhero-y is in vogue right now because most all new shoes involve people developing powers.
But yeah. Token racism everywhere.
Here's the thing about writing.
People write what they know in order to make their writing look authentic. If someone forces themselves to write something they have no idea about than the person who knows his stuff will notice things which author took creative liberties as being off.
This is what you're experiencing right now OP.
That being said you also need to realize that this is all they know because they live in a separate isolated environment called huge coastal cities.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Because Conservative Hollywood fucking died. Find "Hollywood was always red" by Razorfist on bitchute.