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@Commune
granted I think the LGBT could be a factor due to desantis going nuts on them around the same time.

Gamergate was wrong then and it’s only gotten more wrong since.

@Thanotos Omega
I mean, getting interested in a show from an ep in the middle is how things work unless TikTok caused you to lose object permanence.

@Zaknel
Moreso Disney just wants people to devour the same slop with sprinkles and not expect anything more. It takes a fraction of the resources to color a character black or change the sex of a character that it takes to write the story.

@Commune
Yeah in this case it was a issue of the show becoming to much like a show meant for streaming but being made for TV, so you had the issue that reruns could become impenetrable to newcomers and prevent the show from doing what kids shows are intended for on TV,

@BlitztheDragon
Small correction but it’s actually widely believed now that The Owl House was cancelled due to it being more of a story centric show rather than episodic, the LGBT element didn’t really play a part in its cancellation, Disney just wanted shows where it can air episodes out of order so dumb kids don’t get confused

@Zincy
Literal memestock

See, now that presupposes that media companies are putting so much effort into making sure that there are enough minorities being realistically portrayed in the work that it’s taking away time and money from writing the actual story. My experience has been that any diversity rep in bad stories is just to have an actor from a marginalized demographic plopped in. And the rep we see extends from the bad writing instead of the other way around.

That’s especially the case with queer characters in Disney canon. Usually the best we can hope for is a background/side character who will say something in passing that suggests they might be queer, or who kisses someone of the same sex in an unimportant throwaway scene so it can easily be cut out for overseas releases (only to get banned anyways).

Meanwhile, Disney aggressively suppresses and attempts to kill unabashedly pro-queer works such as The Owl House and Nimona. Both such works revolve around queer rep and were critically acclaimed. Disney heavily resisted allowing the former to enter production as a queer series, relented, and then pulled the plug on it after a few seasons despite how well-received it was; and it shelved the latter, bought the studio that acquired it and shelved it again, and it was only by the grace of Netflix picking it up that it ever saw the light of day.

Clearly there is an appetite for honest, in-depth exploration of stories revolving around people who aren’t straight, cisgender white guys. But late stage capitalist megacorps aren’t going to be the ones taking the lead on it due to the economic status quo and the built in incentives that stem from it.

Of course, I see that earlier you also presupposed that companies making a good-faith effort to consider hiring more minorities to their teams must mean that qualified people are being passed over in favor of unqualified people. So I’d recommend maybe unpacking why you seem to believe both presuppositions are true.

@The Smiling Pony
Maybe part of the reason their stories are bad is because they’re putting more concern into making them diverse than into making the writing good?

36-year old Mauricio Garcia, a Dallas resident who shared the same first and last name as the Allen, TX mass shooter has filed a defamation lawsuit against multiple rightwing media outlets who falsely identified him as the shooter, resulting in death threats against him and his family. His mugshot from 2022 for an unrelated charge was dug up by “internet sleuths,” went viral, and was subsequently published by the named media companies in their reporting on the shooting.

Defendants named in the lawsuit are Fox News, Newsmax, Univision, Steven Crowder and his Louder With Crowder media company, Timcast Media Group, InfoWars War Room host Owen Shroyer, podcast company Hollywood Unlocked, Today News Africa, and Today New’s Africa’s owner and sole reporter Simon Ateba.

Trump is in the courtroom for his hush money case right now. Today is also the deadline for his bond, so we’ll see where that goes.

“I am the most X person of ALL TIME!”
“Many people are saying”
“I’ve had someone run up to me and say ‘SIR! I love you whatever you say is true can I suck your dick?’, MANY such people! All the time!”
“Likes on Twitter are an accurate indication of how liked something is”
“This guy said something, we reported on it, then other media reported on our reporting and used it as fact!”

Entire books have been written on the efficiency of propaganda, social media is allowing many of it’s inner workings to spread rampant and unopposed. Since it’s now impossible to debunk a lie faster than it’s spread, media literacy and knowledge of basic fallacies should be standard for just about anyone going online nowadays.

I concur. A lot of the reason behind Disney’s flops has more to do with chronic sequelitis, reboots and remakes nobody asked for, and growing risk aversion when it comes to storytelling and pushing the creative envelope, resulting in bland formulaic plots that are practically the same movie over and over. Then you have movies like Wish that tried to coast by entirely on nostalgia bait.

People who say “audiences are getting sick of this forced diversity and injecting far-left politics into movies” are projecting hard about what makes them in particular angry about modern media.

@Background Pony #7A74
I’m not convinced they’re losing money because of this, or just because they’re creatively bankrupt and this “pandering by the numbers” is just another symptom.

A bad and boring plot isn’t going to be any better because of “better representation”, and a good story isn’t going to be worse because of what are realistically just surface level cosmetic changes.

@The Smiling Pony
That’s the strange thing, they lose money doing this yet they continue. Bob Iger’s Disney is perhaps the best example. If this is capitalism, they are doing it wrong.

@BlitztheDragon
Sounds like an easy way to sneak out a double-agent to start something to punish the group.

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Mckesson v Doe, allowing to stand the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (the Trumpiest of them all) ruling that upheld laws in Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana that would make organizers of mass protests liable for any criminal act committed by even a single person at the event, which would see the organizers and any supporting groups face potentially ruinous financial penalties.

Fifth Circuit Justice Don Willet wrote in his dissenting opinion a warning that this ruling could allow for “counter-protesters and agitators” to show up at these protests and escalate them, and the protesters would be held liable under these laws.

So for now at least, it is de facto dangerous to organize any sort of mass protest in these states, as you could be hit with steep af fines if an agent provocateur opposing your protest comes in and breaks a window or throws rocks at police.

And the right likes to claim that facts don’t care about feelings or something.

The number 1 trend tying together the proven cases of election fraud was election denial and it being used as justification to do election fraud. The louder they scream, the more likely they’ve subscribed to the whole “I don’t have to follow the law if I believe in a conspiracy and am now above it” line of bullshittery.

Or is basic correlation only supposed to apply to skin color and “the left”?

Retail sales grew .7% in March, far larger than the predicted 3%.

This, coupled with the hiring surge and the small but still present growth in wages has powered economic growth despite sticky inflation and the rate hikes.

And the left likes to claim that they don’t also accuse the other side of election fraud.

@Zincy
Since it’s Trump, I expect them to move it forward just so they don’t have to admit that he’s a failure.

Trump Media dropped below 30 in the pre-market hours.

I think it’s 27ish right now. Might rebound, but not by much.

The company filed a request over the weekend to issue millions more in stock, which when a company is losing money is a big sign of desperation.

@Background Pony #1079
GOP will then bitch about a witch hunt.

They’re petty fucks.

Since every accusation of election fraud from a Republican is a confession, if a Republican wins an election, Democrats should demand an investigation.

Residents of Orenburg, Russia threaten to impale Putler’s state officials on pictchforks
Putler doesn’t give one shit about the flooding that’s happening because of their failing infrastructure. To busy bombing Ukrainian civillians.

@Wiimeiser
From what I’ve seen, they’re the exception and have a few bosses who are racist towards white people if their tweets like how straight why guys kissing makes them sick are any indication. There’s also Kotaku defending them when the drama started, claiming you can’t be racist towards white people.