The absolute state of the American comics industry
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I hope that one day a business class uses American comics to teach a lesson about ignoring your core audience. It’s one thing if you think you can get more women to read comics. However at some point you have to accept that women don’t read comic books at the same numbers as males. Add in the way Disney seems to think the target demographic for comics are teen girls and they keep pushing characters whose comics consistently were cancelled.
Even though it feels like we’ll be stuck in the SJW quagmire forever, it’s useful to think like this, about the long term. Like any counterculture, it’ll produce a few reasonable ideas for improving society and the rest will be rejected and looked back on as silly or sinister. This happened with the 60s counterculture, the various religious Great Awakenings, etc etc. The same way my parents’ generation looks back at afros and mustaches and corduroy suits and cringes, middle-aged Gen Z will look back on the non-binary look with bemusement (and that’s all non-binary REALLY is, a look that is popular now, which for some reason has weird theories about gender attached to it).
I’m sure business types WILL someday point to this era as a lesson in what not to do. It’s always tempting to freak out and think society is gonna collapse from this shit, but society always carries on. They are a movement that needs jazz hands instead of clapping because they’re sensitive to noise, they aren’t fucking bringing about a revolution. They also can’t live without their gadgets. Capitalists and strong people will crush them if they try to overthrow anything. This is just a temporary annoyance, though a very BIG annoyance I’ll grant you.
If you believe some of the business podcast I listen to, as well as people who still have contacts inside Hollywood if they dont work themselves (like Chris Gore), it has already started.
Despite what people want to be blackpilled about, ESG is not free money, and it is no shock that the companies sticking hardest to the Woke are still losing money hand over fist (instead of "They can ignore customers because ESG!"). And now, we have seen Top Gun:Maverick and Hogwarts Legacy make money hand over fist despite the Woke attempts to kill them, as well as all of the Woke stuff like Velma crash and burn. And it has finally gotten too obvious for even the most dense Boomer CEO to ignore. Or did you think it a coincidence that most of the cuts are happening in Marketing, which is the most woke part of most companies?
But we will still have to put up with the garbage for a good long while yet. When it comes to stuff like movies and TV, that is usually in the pipe a good 3-5 years before it is actually out. So a lot of what we are seeing is stuff from 2018-2020, at the height of peak TDS and Woke Power. But hey, at least until then, anime is still going strong, and video games are excellent (especially outside of AAA titles).