LootHunter: As one smart guy once said "SJWs always project."
Using the label "SJW" is an official certificate of an IQ in the one digit range.
LootHunter: But then again I wouldn't expect a guy who thinks that FA is the best Star Wars movie because it had the biggest boxoffice(and simultaniously ignores that TLJ grossed only half of FA and TRoS even less) to be able to understand something that is too complex to explain in one line.
You should open a jumping goalpost farm.
So the lack of commercial success of any company that has "gone woke" is clearly because they've "gone woke", but if the same company is hugely successful, the success can not possibly mean that people appreciate the "wokeness".
And people like myself who can not connect to new Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe for wholly other reasons than diversity and inclusivity are ignored in the entire equation or worse yet, counted towards the extremely few who left because they didn't like the "wokeness".
pearnon: - Oscars viewership in an increasingly descending gutter
- Gillette got an $8 billion write-down from P&G
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Battlefield V bombed and caused EA's stock prices to face its worst drop in more than a decade
- DC and Marvel comics' division is dying a slow death, with the former on course for a second buyout in two years, and the latter holding very firmly to momma Disney's udders
- Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy
- Netflix canceling shows left and right where they took social justice liberties with the source material
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Ghostbusters 2016 needs no elaboration
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Lightyear managed to spectacularly squander decades of goodwill buildup by Pixar
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The Rise of Skywalker made $1 billion less than
The Force Awakens.
- Rings of Power is losing viewers (or "samplers", as the spinning jargon goes) instead of gaining them as new episodes are released, with a nearly 20% drop recently
As I said above, you can not take single instances of loss and look at them completely isolated from any context, then slap the label "go woke, get broke" on them. It's not a cheat code indeed. And just a bit of Mr. google will give us so much more credible explanations for your above statements:
- The Oscars have been in decline for many decades, in parallel to the movie theatre business in general.
- Gillette isn't publicly traded, but a quick look at Gillette India's stock market development during the last 20 years quickly squashes the idea of a downward trend that an advertisement sparked. They peaked at the end of the fiscal year 2019, pretty much exactly one year after the ad released, then went downhill with Covid, but are gaining again right now.
- EA's little drop came after a truly motherfucking meteoritic rise of just about
one thousand percent between 2012 and 2018. You know, the era of Dragon Age, the Mass Effects, all games that worked really hard on inclusivity and representation. They survived Covid nearly unscathed and aren't even particularly affected by the present stock market downturn. I'd say buying EA stock would be a solid investment right now.
- Marvel movies and series, in my admittedly limited view, are the same story told a thousand times. Dude or dudette gets superpowers, has to deal with the responsibilities that come with it. I haven't researched whether they're actually in decline, but I wouldn't be surprised. It's the same story over and over and over and over again. I don't see where the 'woke' element is even logically supposed to come in here. If you look at your average Marvel movie, you would of course say it failed because it's crappy or repeats all the old clichees, not because it has e.g. a strong female protagonist. Because if you did, you'd have to tie the failure of other Marvel movies to them having male protagonists. So they would have to stop making "man" movies altogether. I of course am taking the gross generalisation even further. I'd say the problem with superhero movies is that there are superheroes in 'em.
- Boy Scouts of America went to their knees after after a bombardment with sexual harrassment lawsuits. Damn, I wish we could do the same thing with the Catholic church. Then again, the problem with both institutions clearly is their Christian-conservative organisation, and I kind of insist on your agreement here.
- I never watched the 2016 ghostbusters, but its success was right up there with Ghostbusters II (not adjusted for inflation though). I have no idea how good the script was, I hear it was pretty bad, but they easily would have succeeded with a bad script if only they hadn't tanked a 144 million budget into this movie. Ghostbusters Afterlife (a pretty fucking woke movie with a female protagonist that was plenty awesome and had some great words by Dan Akroyd about the matter, google them!) succeeded on half the budget, but would not have succeded on the budget of 2016's Ghostbusters. I fail to see any possible connection to "wokeness" whatsoever. If 2016 GB had a great script and a reasonable budget but had failed simply because of female protagonists, that would be shit too, right?
- No idea what the problem with Lightyear is, but if a movie is at 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's usually pretty great.
- Netflix cancelling shows left and right period, because as mentioned above they're being ground to a fine powder by wokeriders Apple, Disney and Amazon. And they're making new shows aimed at a younger target audience now that are woker and woker. I mean, have you watched Arcane? That's one of their most successful shows ever. They'll keep on doing that woke show
until the makers are getting a better offer. These are the forces at work, and clearly these are the forces at work.
OF COURSE Netflix is going down. The reason is that they can not compete with monopolies, and this isn't just painfully obvious, it's also painful to me.
- One billion is literally peanuts to Disney. The best movie in the entire Star Wars series made 5 billion at the box office, the rather repetitive sequel made three times as much for no reason whatsoever. This number pointing game tells us nothing. Absolutely nothing.
- Rings of Power is losing viewers! Big secret: Every show does. That's why they eventually go off the air. In this case, the record breaking viewership was in part comprised of dedicated haters that only watched the series so they could hate a little more. I can think of some scenarios in which the hate movement lost steam and that played into the declining viewership. ;)