The writers that haven't had an original idea in years? The writers that threw darts at a rainbow flag for years for casting? The writers that want to reboot and retread every franchise into a soulless cash cow zombie? Those writers?
"We are the people who create the stuff that the world watches. And yet we're treated as if we are virtually valueless," says the WGA's chief negotiator, Chris Keyser. "Sustaining a writing career has become almost untenable for a large percentage of our members. We're just at a breaking point."
Imagine having the audacity to say that when reruns streaming massively outperform any “modern” show.
I don't care for any modern series, so I've gone "back in time" to see old programming like the original Star Trek, Perry Mason and even Monty Python's Flying Circus when I'm eating dinner.
Frasier isn't even that old but I laugh at least once every episode. Same with the original Night Court. And many of those laughs are from non-PC content.
"Sustaining a writing career has become almost untenable for a large percentage of our members. We're just at a breaking point."
Life is SOOOO hard for us! Why can't we get paid millions!
The WGA is demanding, among other things, an increase in minimum pay, more residual payments from streaming, as well as increased contributions to its health and pension plans.
The fuck would the writers be getting residual payments from streaming? Sell your work and that is the end of it.
"One out of every four people who runs the television shows that everyone's obsessed with make the lowest amount of money the contract allows,"
You sign these fucking contracts dumbass. That is what a contract is, an agreement to get paid a certain amount for your work.
I've been in meetings the last few weeks where writers talked about the fact that while they're writing the television shows that you and everyone watch, they had to take second jobs in order to make ends meet."
Maybe don't live in California and spend your money mindlessly.
These assholes agree to their contracts then cry about how the contracts aren't good enough a few years later. All while their quality drops further and further.
Also, very presumptuous to say “you and everyone else” watch their shows. Never mind that the proliferation of streaming means there are now exceedingly few universally consumed programs anymore. It’s just a super arrogant thing to say even if your show is one of those few.
The fact that the word is plural explains why you don't get paid shit and why increased residuals won't fuckin matter. You and your two dozen buddies writing the show will have to split the pie you morons.
Maybe we should cut back on the number of writers per show. Maybe then a show will have a consistent tone and suck.
Sure, they're a dime a dozen at major production houses and so they get paid pennies.
But we're living in a world where a writer can literally pick up an animation team anywhere in the world and have their story produced, then sell it themselves.
They need studios as little as any script writer has ever needed them.
If they have good stories, they should have no problems.
Writing by committee is already soulless, so no one would notice. That isn't even addressing the frenzied zealotry engorged by the envious wrath of collective narcissism. Hollywoke writers naval gaze far too deeply up each other's derrieres to ever slop together a cohesive narrative, so there's no differing result between AI and Hollywoke. Narcissism and storytelling go together like bleach and vinegar. These writers are hacks, but it wouldn't matter if they possessed talent, since they can't comprehend the reason stories exist.
A rock pigeon could never aspire to the weaving of a penduline tit.
But then who will write the script for Comic Book Movie #351?! I NEED yet another film that's completely indistinguishable from the last 50! Someone hand me my soylent, I think I'm going to faint!
I wonder if this is a psyop so these studios can purge their halls of their activist infestation? They infiltrated the writer's union, and rabbleroused a strike. Now Universal, Warner, Paramount can clean house. We just can't afford it!
Then hire some actual hungry writers, who wont follow the mandatory 'rules' for this modern slop we've been stuck in since 2014.
The kind of people who get those works are those who already have connections and in order to have those connections you need to be neck deep into the zeitgeist to begin with.
If not then they will once again offer pittance for a pay and the only one who will pick up the job will be a bored trust fund kid who will do the job for influence.
Either way I don't see sudden influx of wholesome christian stories.
I don't think wholesome Christian stories would make for big dollar mass entertainment either. Any overt message is going to taint enjoyment, unless it's just flawlessly executed.
I'm just hoping there's some level of management that realizes that the goal is to make money, and to do that you should try to please your core audience. The reason you buy these franchises / properties / adaptations is because it has a built-in audience. It's like Hollywood has forgotten that. Or worse, decided it was worth billions to 'retrain' the audience. Like WotC or soon to be Games Workshop are trying to do.
To start making good stuff again, the activists need to be purged. I'd see this as a good time to do that. But.. if the nepotism is that deep, maybe it's better that they simply have to sell off their divisions and/or lease their properties to hungrier companies.
The writers that are currently writing current Hollywood shit, while Hollywood is fucking failing in 80% or more of its releases? Those writers?
The writers that haven't had an original idea in years? The writers that threw darts at a rainbow flag for years for casting? The writers that want to reboot and retread every franchise into a soulless cash cow zombie? Those writers?
but guys, guys, GUYS, what if we make [popular character] black and gay?!
Imagine having the audacity to say that when reruns streaming massively outperform any “modern” show.
They aren't "valueless". They are worthless. Worse, they are negative value. Their current-year crap is a plague on humanity.
Just replace them with AI. The writers are already barely sentient NPCs anyway.
No kidding. I always laugh comparing the New Release and Trending queue, because everything people want to watch was made 30 years ago.
I don't care for any modern series, so I've gone "back in time" to see old programming like the original Star Trek, Perry Mason and even Monty Python's Flying Circus when I'm eating dinner.
Frasier isn't even that old but I laugh at least once every episode. Same with the original Night Court. And many of those laughs are from non-PC content.
Life is SOOOO hard for us! Why can't we get paid millions!
The fuck would the writers be getting residual payments from streaming? Sell your work and that is the end of it.
You sign these fucking contracts dumbass. That is what a contract is, an agreement to get paid a certain amount for your work.
Maybe don't live in California and spend your money mindlessly.
These assholes agree to their contracts then cry about how the contracts aren't good enough a few years later. All while their quality drops further and further.
Entitled cunts the lot of them.
Also, very presumptuous to say “you and everyone else” watch their shows. Never mind that the proliferation of streaming means there are now exceedingly few universally consumed programs anymore. It’s just a super arrogant thing to say even if your show is one of those few.
Yeah for every writer of genuinely good shows there's a room full of people writing shit like 'Velma.'
They are not supposed to get paid the same.
The fact that the word is plural explains why you don't get paid shit and why increased residuals won't fuckin matter. You and your two dozen buddies writing the show will have to split the pie you morons.
Maybe we should cut back on the number of writers per show. Maybe then a show will have a consistent tone and suck.
Consider the modern landscape for writers.
Sure, they're a dime a dozen at major production houses and so they get paid pennies.
But we're living in a world where a writer can literally pick up an animation team anywhere in the world and have their story produced, then sell it themselves.
They need studios as little as any script writer has ever needed them.
If they have good stories, they should have no problems.
Would anyone even notice if the studios just had a woke-ified AI write the shows? I wouldn’t.
Writing by committee is already soulless, so no one would notice. That isn't even addressing the frenzied zealotry engorged by the envious wrath of collective narcissism. Hollywoke writers naval gaze far too deeply up each other's derrieres to ever slop together a cohesive narrative, so there's no differing result between AI and Hollywoke. Narcissism and storytelling go together like bleach and vinegar. These writers are hacks, but it wouldn't matter if they possessed talent, since they can't comprehend the reason stories exist.
A rock pigeon could never aspire to the weaving of a penduline tit.
Imagine the producers, marketers, and directors just sitting around a table having the script re-written in real time.
They're going to tear apart any human-written script the same way, why not cut out thr middle man?
Captain Marvel and the Thunder Thighs take on literal white CHUD Venom.
Fire em all and boot up Chat Gpt
We want to see them begging for alms in the streets and they think that they're owed more. :')
I'd be happy to see Hollywood go on strike.
They already don't put in any work, might as well not be paid for not working.
How could you even tell the difference?
Also, this seems like a great opportunity to just switch over to AI writers...
Oh no. Anyways...
But then who will write the script for Comic Book Movie #351?! I NEED yet another film that's completely indistinguishable from the last 50! Someone hand me my soylent, I think I'm going to faint!
Is this the good writers, or the unhireables who demanded their way into their jobs and are now running to the union to keep them?
You know what? Either way let it all burn. They've proven to not care what happens to the media they control, or used to control.
Well… bye.
I wonder if this is a psyop so these studios can purge their halls of their activist infestation? They infiltrated the writer's union, and rabbleroused a strike. Now Universal, Warner, Paramount can clean house. We just can't afford it!
Then hire some actual hungry writers, who wont follow the mandatory 'rules' for this modern slop we've been stuck in since 2014.
I'm not sure if that will work.
The kind of people who get those works are those who already have connections and in order to have those connections you need to be neck deep into the zeitgeist to begin with.
If not then they will once again offer pittance for a pay and the only one who will pick up the job will be a bored trust fund kid who will do the job for influence.
Either way I don't see sudden influx of wholesome christian stories.
I don't think wholesome Christian stories would make for big dollar mass entertainment either. Any overt message is going to taint enjoyment, unless it's just flawlessly executed.
I'm just hoping there's some level of management that realizes that the goal is to make money, and to do that you should try to please your core audience. The reason you buy these franchises / properties / adaptations is because it has a built-in audience. It's like Hollywood has forgotten that. Or worse, decided it was worth billions to 'retrain' the audience. Like WotC or soon to be Games Workshop are trying to do.
To start making good stuff again, the activists need to be purged. I'd see this as a good time to do that. But.. if the nepotism is that deep, maybe it's better that they simply have to sell off their divisions and/or lease their properties to hungrier companies.
These assholes are one ChatGPT release away from becoming completely replaceable.
Their shit is so unoriginal and predictable that it won't be hard for an AI to generate comparable content.