Rumor: Alleged Insider Claims Marvel Studios’ Diversity Push Meant To Recoup Financial Losses From Brand’s Death In China
According to an alleged insider, Marvel's recent diversity push is meant to help them recoup their losses from being locked out of China.
I wonder if that'll work. Normies are sheep, so maybe. Personally I'm done with Marvel, Star Wars and other big corporate IPs. I'm not even mad anymore. I just don't care anymore.
I get more entertainment out of the memes mocking them than the bastardizations they produce.
Yea, that sounds like totally the demographic to sell toys to. Maybe if they release some Marvel-themed wine glasses and cat litter boxes.
I’m the same way, let the franchise’s die. What’s hilarious is them thinking single women will save them, they don’t have mens buying power attached to them and already have the entire media market focused on them.
On the other hand, with stuff like "the pink tax" it has been proven that women will waste money for something that looks a certain way, even if it serves no functional purpose.
If you get women to like Marvel, you can sell Marvel Razors and Marvel Cooch Shaving Cream at 10% over normal price.
Marvel-themed wine glasses would sell like crazy among the women that pretend to be geeks but don't know any of the characters.
I would say female vanity would make that a no go, but with the surge of wine in a box/bag/can and general death of any form of self respect you might be onto something. Would probably still be safer to do etched glass over color print.
Here's my collection of nerd glasses, LOL!
There's Ironed Man, Hulking, Thorm, Black Widow, Black Panthor, Scarlet Witch, Dr. Strain and Spiderman. Lookout boys, this is a woman's world now!
Agreed. I have no hope for these IPs precisely because normies will clap like seals at every new trailer
Path of least resistance, you will own nothing and you will like it.
When your brain is rotten from Intersectional Blank Slate theory, you can't even think anymore.
Which demographics are much, much more likely to collect things pennies, figurines, stamps, etc? Men, and above a certain IQ, disposable income and higher tendency for obsessions.
But they keep chasing that elusive female Somalian untapped pool of dedicated Star Wars toy collectors.
Lol.
They can't dictate talent the same way they can dictate race swapping.
This is interesting, and would explain how Disney have rationalized alienating their target audience at a corporate level.
They think that they'll be able to win the core demo back by having Hugh Jackman emerge from a doctor strange portal.
I don't know about anyone else, but the contempt that I have developed for these companies (Disney and Marvel) is not going to go away that easily.
I don't know exactly when it happened, but at some point I started to hate these people, and actively root for them to fail.
If they think I'm just waiting in the wings for them to nod at me and say "okay, we're done now, so things can go back to normal", they are out of their fucking minds.
Not sure about you, but for me it was when they decided to answer the vague and uncertain biases cooked into the fundamentals of life as an animal with direct and deliberate biases of their own.
And then calling people names for not liking their incompetent writing.
They wouldn’t have a loss in China or the rest of the world if it wasn’t for the diversity push in the first place
That makes ZERO sense.
Unless their math says they’ll gain 10% of LGBT wine moms but only lose 5% of their base but even then they’re not just going after a new market but actively attacking the base.
No - these are leaders that don’t WANT the base because they’re “the enemy” and they’ll only support the market they like - even if it kills the company.
Exactly this. They didn't push for quality content lifting up their ideals, they pushed out garbage tier slosh so they could use it as a bludgeon against their perceived enemies.
Straight white men are ~30% of the population and they are fed up with being the target, and they're going to retaliate now. Not only that, but straight white men have friends and allies who will join them despite not being straight white men.
Plenty of conservatives, even if not straight white men, are opposed to IDPOL and so will revolt against Disney too.
As an example, my asian girlfriend follows everything I do, in voting and consooming, so if I boycott Disney, she does too. We used to be annual passholders too before COVID hit since we live in LA. Ever since Disney fired Gina Carano I put a fatwa on them and they've gotten nothing from either of us.
I am in agreement sir.
I was a huge comics fan growing up- I could rattle off the issue numbers for major events or first appearances of my favorite characters all day long. But, I've pretty much stopped watching these movies for several reasons:
Saturation. We went from superhero movies being a rare treat to the majority of what's in the box office. Trying to see them all and keep the storylines straight wears me out.
Quality. Iron Man was groundbreaking as a quality origin story and the beginning of a shared universe. Now the movies are pretty sucky and they can't even keep the plot threads coherent. Bringing back everyone that has played Spider-Man and Patrick Stewart to plus up audience numbers in new films reeks of desperation to me.
"Diversity". The constant race swapping, girl power, and focus on tertiary non-white characters annoys the hell out of me. Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury? Rock on; he's a phenomenal actor and the Ultimates version of the character was modeled on him already. This year's "must see" series being about a frumpy Indian teen and a femenist twerking lawyer? Pass.
At this point, I'd rather remember comics as what they were to me when I was a kid. If I want to revisit them I'll just download a torrent of the original comics.
Well said.
Going woke will just ensure they never get back in the China/Middle East markets...
They literally don't care about profits anymore. It's all about pushing what their WEF masters tell them to push.
What a time to be alive.
They’ve attacked these target audiences as racist/sexist. Why would I want to go back? Then they push hard for groups that tend to not like comic books or Star Wars. Their first big mistake was not continuing the EU while making your own Star Wars. That would’ve been very easy
There'd need to be some ROYAL dicksucking to fix those fuck ups. Kick out all the Disney continuity, apologise to the fans, kick out and blacklist KK, restart their 2d animation devision AND denounce the woke shit entirely (maybe Intentionally alienate the wokies by directly spitting on them). If they do all that we can talk, before I don't see the reason to bargain and get back into Disney, fuck em with a rusty nail.
I’ve reached that point. I cancelled Disney plus and just read EU stuff or watch pre Disney stuff
Maybe, but seems backwards to me. Even going back to the Force is Female Star Wars films, they were designing separate movie posters for China to make Finn less visible. Think it's more likely that their diversity push killed them in China and they're too stupid to realize it and are continuing to double down.
They can be and are.
Interesting if true - essentially, Disney - and it's properties - are stepping away from traditional heroes because they think they've got that market wrapped up, and that the people represented by those more classical heroes simply won't boycott.
To be fair, I think they're technically correct - I very much doubt there's going to be an organised Soccer Mom boycott of Disney ... but at the same time I suspect they'll see that drop they're seeing now because, having focused on diversity ahead even of story, their recent work is trash and so people are staying away for that reason.
I mean, when they have the odd story that actually works you still get the numbers. It's just Disney - somehow! - is pushing less of these than they used to.
Is all just excuses. I bet there are some people higher up that have started to complain about things not working as good as predicted so they had to come with an excuse for it that sounded better then we hate men.
I think a lot of people forget that aspect when they talk about “Get Woke, go broke” failing. It does, on a long enough timeline, because normies do eventually leave. Stuff being woke may not turn off normies, but it being a subpar wreck does. I usually look to my fiancé as what Kurt Schlicter described as the “Militant Normal”, and she has been becoming dissatisfied with a lot of modern movies and games and retreating to anime and video games. Which I have noticed with many of my normie-minded coworkers.
Which is why I still remain optimistic we get past all of this bullshit and get something better on the other side.
It's not surprising that Disney thinks they can shit on white males and they will still slurp up the crap that is vomitted from Disney. White males are the most cucked population thanks to feminist indoctrination. Look at how "anti-sjw" and conservatives are so afraid to be called misogynists and incels.
They also forget that, although they've been going after fringe demographics for a decade+ now, there are families with men as head of household and are actually engaged with their families' lives.
We're also the ones that make the money and have an actual say in how our children are raised and what they watch. So if Dad says no Disney shit, there goes an entire family's $ for a long time, including potential vacation $ loss. Times that by a few million and that multiplies to potential billions a year of their bread and butter market, families.
Gays and militant feminists and the freak Far Left don't have families and won't be passing their culture down to their children. Disney fucked up it's unbroken generation -lines that they will feel for years and decades to come. I double Captain Marvel or Black Little Mermaid will be nostalgia for grown-up kids from today.
Good luck with that. The last Marvel movie I watched was Infinity War. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Disney will also be dead in the European \ US market soon.
Do these retards know this is a zero sum game? Your stupid diversity push alienates the people WITH money (30-50 year old men) from people with less or no money (20-30 year old men, women, and troons)
What the fuck is wrong with these idiots?
Pretty sure china doesnt like random black actors (they tolerate rich, famous ones or basketball players) and definitely dont like queer ass rainbow stuff.
I have some bad news for them
Bullshit. We all know why, the picture of that meeting about it had more women in it than a harem anime.
You really should focus that hatred into something more constructive, like writing a work of fiction.
You might reach more people.
I'll leave the lying to them. They're better at it.
That may be, but you're no slouch at making shit up. I don't really count it as 'lying' though because you clearly believe it.
And that forced limiting of yourself is why you keep failing.