I think they are going bankrupt for a couple of reasons. They invested like $200 million into making their own shows and movies and no one watches them. (The exception are Matt Walsh movies) The other reason I can think of is the Ben Shapiro show and Matt Walsh are the only programs people actually care about. Ben lost a lot of viewers after the hamas October 7 attack. He went hysterical and he still is about it. One specific example is that some politician wanted to spend money on our own country and Ben said it would be put to better use giving it to Israel.
They invested like $200 million into making their own shows and movies and no one watches them. (The exception are Matt Walsh movies)
This is probably the biggest one of all of the reasons. Sure, we can talk about Ben losing viewers but they were a drop in the overall bucket when he still has well over 100,000 concurrent in a live show and millions over the life of an episode.
But the movie arm? That thing is eating them alive. They werent wrong that conservatives were stupid for abandoning culture, but they (Especially Jeremy) fell into a lot of the old traps that old attempts at conservative media has. So you ended up with lots of movies and shows that were mediocre at best and at worst were little better than the Woke Left slop they were replacing (Lady Ballers and Mr. Birchum go here). THEN they put it behind a paywall where the majority of what you are paying for is politics and that anyone willing to do that was already paying. And from the sounds of it, The Pendragon Cycle is eating them alive and guzzling down money like it is going out of style.
And of course, this is before we get into the fact that apparently none of them want to listen to Klavan (who is probably the only one there with any actual sense of the culture) who has been telling them that movies and TV shows are old news and they should have been looking into video games since that is where actual culture is now.
honestly, i've been thinking simple animated short films based on the old tall tales would be a good start. start with some animated mythology and work from there.
Reclaiming culture is going to take years of consistently putting out a superior product. Tell good stories that have a subtext of what message you're trying to sell. That's what the left used to do for decades before they got too lazy and arrogant and started making overt propaganda. Flipping that paradigm making conservative propaganda with shallow stories isn't going to help anyone.
I think they are going bankrupt for a couple of reasons. They invested like $200 million into making their own shows and movies and no one watches them. (The exception are Matt Walsh movies) The other reason I can think of is the Ben Shapiro show and Matt Walsh are the only programs people actually care about. Ben lost a lot of viewers after the hamas October 7 attack. He went hysterical and he still is about it. One specific example is that some politician wanted to spend money on our own country and Ben said it would be put to better use giving it to Israel.
This is probably the biggest one of all of the reasons. Sure, we can talk about Ben losing viewers but they were a drop in the overall bucket when he still has well over 100,000 concurrent in a live show and millions over the life of an episode.
But the movie arm? That thing is eating them alive. They werent wrong that conservatives were stupid for abandoning culture, but they (Especially Jeremy) fell into a lot of the old traps that old attempts at conservative media has. So you ended up with lots of movies and shows that were mediocre at best and at worst were little better than the Woke Left slop they were replacing (Lady Ballers and Mr. Birchum go here). THEN they put it behind a paywall where the majority of what you are paying for is politics and that anyone willing to do that was already paying. And from the sounds of it, The Pendragon Cycle is eating them alive and guzzling down money like it is going out of style.
And of course, this is before we get into the fact that apparently none of them want to listen to Klavan (who is probably the only one there with any actual sense of the culture) who has been telling them that movies and TV shows are old news and they should have been looking into video games since that is where actual culture is now.
honestly, i've been thinking simple animated short films based on the old tall tales would be a good start. start with some animated mythology and work from there.
Reclaiming culture is going to take years of consistently putting out a superior product. Tell good stories that have a subtext of what message you're trying to sell. That's what the left used to do for decades before they got too lazy and arrogant and started making overt propaganda. Flipping that paradigm making conservative propaganda with shallow stories isn't going to help anyone.
I have always wondered how Andrew Klavan ended up falling in with that group.