We know the truth and it would seem obvious, but remember who we are dealing with and that’s a bunch of insulated, disconnected, wealthy dickheads. This is the first calendar year it’s hitting them because:
Not every woke project or franchise failed spectacularly or neglected to make money over the last decade. Most of these franchises had years of good will and acclaim from the audience who unfortunately put up with a lot of bullshit before realizing it wasn’t going to get better. If you’re some Harvard MBA douche who just cares about the bottom line, your numbers have been still doing great for the majority of projects. They looked at the numbers and assumed the audience was happy, when it was simply the inertia from previous movies, games, or comics that carried them.
When “get woke, go broke” actually occurred, the company ALWAYS had something else to shift the blame to. COVID, poor marketing, franchise fatigue, claiming the franchise was dead to begin with (this was their go to excuse for things like He-Man or Willow for example) the list goes on. The last year, starting with Top Gun and ending with Indiana Jones and the Budlight fiasco, is the point where they’ve ran out of scapegoats
The people we are discussing don’t inhabit the same reality as us. It’s the old “How did Nixon win? No one that I know voted for him?!” situation. (I think it would help to read the following segment in as douchey and pretentious a voice as possible. ”What do you mean people don’t want this?! According to real news like CNN, and reading op editorials by REAL experts, identity politics is what the people want. Why else would the news publish 1,000 articles about misogyny in entertainment if it wasn’t a major concern for the majority? It doesn’t matter what filthy plebs like that racist Carlson or that beastly Scottish man who drinks too much says. Who cares if some silly helmet man called DeadlyDick or whatever says everyone hates our product. Our Non-binary marketing director Jaquisha showed us 1,000,000 likes on Xir Twitter at the last meeting. The whole team agrees with zhem, and they all have degrees from Harvard in business and marketing! Obviously they earned those degrees by learning business and are here to make money. Why else would they be here? The film got a perfect score from movie critics and a GLAAD award. The producer says it’s because we didn’t market enough on social media and Wall Street journal agrees. Why would they lie to us about that?”
As I said, that line of thinking has finally hit a brick wall because after a decade of this shit, normies, Christians, conservative, and even neoliberals have figured out what is going on. Without the ESG money and audience complacency, the true believers are out of lies to peddle board members and from the rumors circling the internet, they are finally starting to get pissed. It took years but the old men and women in suits are finally realizing they’ve been fed bullshit and the government/ investment firms can no longer save them.
We know the truth and it would seem obvious, but remember who we are dealing with and that’s a bunch of insulated, disconnected, wealthy dickheads. This is the first calendar year it’s hitting them because:
Not every woke project or franchise failed spectacularly or neglected to make money over the last decade. Most of these franchises had years of good will and acclaim from the audience who unfortunately put up with a lot of bullshit before realizing it wasn’t going to get better. If you’re some Harvard MBA douche who just cares about the bottom line, your numbers have been still doing great for the majority of projects. They looked at the numbers and assumed the audience was happy, when it was simply the inertia from previous movies, games, or comics that carried them.
When “get woke, go broke” actually occurred, the company ALWAYS had something else to shift the blame to. COVID, poor marketing, franchise fatigue, claiming the franchise was dead to begin with (this was their go to excuse for things like He-Man or Willow for example) the list goes on. The last year, starting with Top Gun and ending with Indiana Jones and the Budlight fiasco, is the point where they’ve ran out of scapegoats
The people we are discussing don’t inhabit the same reality as us. It’s the old “How did Nixon win? No one that I know voted for him?!” situation. (I think it would help to read the following segment in as douchey and pretentious a voice as possible. ”What do you mean people don’t want this?! According to real news like CNN, and reading op editorials by REAL experts, identity politics is what the people want. Why else would the news publish 1,000 articles about misogyny in entertainment if it wasn’t a major concern for the majority? It doesn’t matter what filthy plebs like that racist Carlson or that beastly Scottish man who drinks too much says. Who cares if some silly helmet man called DeadlyDick or whatever says everyone hates our product. Our Non-binary marketing director Jaquisha showed us 1,000,000 likes on Xir Twitter at the last meeting. The whole team agrees with zhem, and they all have degrees from Harvard in business and marketing! Obviously they earned those degrees by learning business and are here to make money. Why else would they be here? The film got a perfect score from movie critics and a GLAAD award. The producer says it’s because we didn’t market enough on social media and Wall Street journal agrees. Why would they lie to us about that?”
As I said, that line of thinking has finally hit a brick wall because after a decade of this shit, normies, Christians, conservative, and even neoliberals have figured out what is going on. Without the ESG money and audience complacency, the true believers are out of lies to peddle board members and from the rumors circling the internet, they are finally starting to get pissed. It took years but the old men and women in suits are finally realizing they’ve been fed bullshit and the government/ investment firms can no longer save them.