That's not entirely true. There's often returns on co-opted media that rides on the coat-tails of prior entries or an established fanbase. For example, The Force Awakens made money despite being woke.
That said, an established audience doesn't automatically mean success either. Take The Watch for example, which fans of the Discworld series just let die a quiet death because it was shit. But I would say that there are enough instances of established audiences being used to get a return that it's the majority of times, but hopefully there is a tide turning, and LotR Rings of Power seems to be the litmus test for that.
This is absolutely true, and why things have gotten this far, but the more important thing is that the woke garbage is seen to fail.
Woke folks are broke folks. Outside of what’s invested into it, they never get a good return.
That's not entirely true. There's often returns on co-opted media that rides on the coat-tails of prior entries or an established fanbase. For example, The Force Awakens made money despite being woke.
That said, an established audience doesn't automatically mean success either. Take The Watch for example, which fans of the Discworld series just let die a quiet death because it was shit. But I would say that there are enough instances of established audiences being used to get a return that it's the majority of times, but hopefully there is a tide turning, and LotR Rings of Power seems to be the litmus test for that.