You are a gifter. I got my main Google account of 9 years banned for criticism of the Biden laptop...AND I'M A NOBODY. Where were you during SOLAR FREAKEN ROADWAYS in 2015. We were calling this crap out during Amila Scsrisian in 2012 back when rap battles were the greatest thing.
@SethPlato01 Not most of the directors, at least none I can think of in movies that would qualify. Aladdin - white Americans Mulan - white Americans Pocahontas - white Americans Lilo & Stitch - white Americans The Emperor’s New Groove - white Americans Brother Bear - white Americans The Jungle Book - white German American Moana - white Americans
There are still things that came out in the last few years that did it right. Mayhem is an action/horror/comedy with Steve Yeun as a lead, and it pulls no punches with any of the characters. The most hateable characters aren't just the evil white male CEO, but also a black woman and a disabled man. No politics whatsoever other than some generic "corporate mindset bad" and a very facetious "I hate that women aren't treated the same in the workplace" **begins beating a woman recovering from being tazed.** Violent Night is good too, the most political spouting character is literally the big bad with a victim mentality and refuses to take responsibility for his own actions like breaking into a house and pushing an old man down the stairs leading to his death.
I'm still waiting for the mainstream to admit that censoring/altering works from the past was also wrong and that the original works need to be preserved. Yeah, even I got called a grifter for being anti-censorship. What a time to be alive.
I'm cool with putting warnings on stuff that contain language or situations that might trigger someone. Then they csn just avoid the situation like if it's a movie that wouldn't be appropriate if made today. Like Blazing Saddles. If you're snowflakey, then it's not a movie for you. But if you were around in the 1970's, it's ine of the best Mel Brooks movies ever.
@@fakshen1973 Tbh, I've heard there's even a website where you can find out which triggering things are in various movies. I think it's called "does the dog die". The people who need to know whether something very specific happens in a movie can usually just check online.
@@fakshen1973 Yeah, I feel that there's a difference between a content advisory and a trigger warning. The former tells you what to expect and lets you decide to proceed from there. The latter sets you up to take offense sight unseen. I prefer the former.
Man, I don't know how many times I've been accused of being a right-leaning racist bigot because I talked about how I didn't like a show or movie; when I listed the reasons why...and I never once mentioned about race or gender, but actual legitimate criticisms.
Same. I've been accused of racism and bigotry even though I've already given them legitimate reasons why I don't like a horribly written movie or show. And not once did I ever mention race and gender. Not once. And they still accused me of that BS anyway. This is exactly why I don't take the shills / Disney cultists seriously. They'll literally pull out the "your racist" card as an easy way to dismiss criticisms. Which is a very weak argument. And when I asked them for proof, they couldn't do it. For example, I didn't like The Little Mermaid ( 2023 ) because it's literally the exact same as the original film with less creativity and more inferior changes to the story. And the visual effects are so dull and worn out in comparison to the original, where it looked more colorful. This is the same company that gave us Davy Jones from Dead Man's Chest back in 2006, so there's absolutely no excuse for Disney to make CGI look so much worse than before.
So true. The feebs that dismiss any statement not in lockstep with their political dogma as "-ist" or "-phobic" are intellectually lazy and tiresome. To live in a free society requires a thick skin, and we need to restore that expectation in Americans. Let's hope there's some healing going on.
I stopped being apologetic about it when I realized Iėftoids should be glad they’re even allowed opinions after everything they’ve done. Once I figured that out, I realized that every single thing they were saying was inferior by default, therefore shouldn’t be validated by being defensive.
Same. I've been accused of racism and bigotry even though I've already given them legitimate reasons why I don't like a horribly written movie or show. And not once did I ever mention race and gender. Not once. And they still accused me of that BS anyway. This is exactly why I don't take the shills / Disney cultists seriously. They'll literally pull out the "your racist" card as an easy way to dismiss criticisms. Which is a very weak argument. And when I asked them for proof, they couldn't do it.
Well no. The people on top and bottom do. I know my cousin us part of the problem. They even ruined my 30th birthday. Makes summoning a demon..REAL tempting...
Yeh when Disney did the whole remove FINN for the CCP market or make "gays" not exist for their products in the middle east... Yeh they were money chaser hypocrites who use virtue signaling as a tool to appear moral... Nothing more. Why it was not obvious since then? is beyond me.
I have always had the utmost respect for your willingness to criticize media despite the backlash and harm to your reputation, especially since you've largely maintained a moderate and rational perspective. Your passion is refreshing. A lot of people, myself included, have become jaded and apathetic toward pop culture due to all the politics on screen and behind the scenes. With that said, don't forget to take care of yourself. A lot of the people actively spouting lies just for clout, money, and ideology aren't worth your time or energy.
It’s not politics that’s the problem, it’s the people they hired to write the politics who don’t know how to do it with subtlety. Writing’s an art form and at this point, it’s a science.
That’s because it’s not lmao, the political landscape defines the culture. Right now there’s going to be a Republican in office, which means the media is going to start pandering to right wing audiences instead of left wing ones. As soon as a democrat gets into office again, the pendulum will swing back to the “woke” side of things. This is how it’s always been.
@@Brotherofthe4thCompany Even if they made good propaganda, it would still be propaganda and people would get tired of it eventually. I'm not saying art should never be political, but it can be apolitical, and that would be a much welcome relief in times when everything is constantly trying to remind you of how horrible the world is, or trying to manipulate you into joining some belief system. Also sorry if my reply sounded aggressive, it wasn't the intention
See no one hates diversity... just what these people claim diversity to be about. They could easily tell stories from all over the world from different cultures but they don't. They could tell stories from Japan, China, India, England, France, Brazil and the list goes on. They've corrupted that word into something it never was, diversity should never be about what a single piece of work is and the range of cultures represented. It should be about the entire industry, and diversity in a story should be about character diversity. How characters have different values, beliefs and go on different arcs. If a story is about Vikings than it should represent what Vikings look like, their culture, their values and so on. If it's a modern day romance in New York in 2023 than yes you represent modern day times. See we have plenty of representation in fiction, it just isn't congealed into every single story. As when that happens it makes everything feel generic, and this has especially hit fantasy TV hard and it kills any sense of geography or cultural differences.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s... Remember The Titans and Million Dollar Baby are 2 of my favorite sports movies. One movie covered racism pretty heavily and the other featured a female boxer in an era when women weren't really taken seriously in combat sports. RtT was based on a true story, and when the real Head Coach, Herman Boone was interviewed, he said that the movie juiced up the racism a little bit, but he loved the movie. He was also asked whether some1 really threw a brick thru his window and he said, "No. In real life it was the top of a toilet." So here's this guy who coached a newly integrated team just after the Civil Rights Movement, and he is saying that the racism wasn't too bad in Virginia... in 1968. Yet, 75 years later, we are supposed to believe that America is ruled by racism. This is the least racist and most tolerant era in human history, but this new generation of Hollywood is just too ungrateful to appreciate it. One thing they really need to stop doing is these actors interviewing actors segments. Makes them look so dumb.
Actually, "diversity" for them means "eliminate straight white people, especially men". It doesn't mean including more cultures and genders (well, you can only have two genders, anyway, and those have always been included).
"At least we no longer have to pretend to like something because it has the right politics..." Hahahahaha, imagine coming out and _admitting_ you did this. What a weasel.
@@vitreo1363 I don't believe that. The people who would enjoy it don't watch that kind of stuff. Also, the writer/director was not making it for the audiences, they were making it for themselves. "Representation" means only, and exclusively, "I wanna see MYSELF (the writer/director) in the characters.
As a black man I don't understand why they race swap characters instead of just putting the already diverse ones in the shows and movies. It is like a hand me down, I don't want a black tony stark give me a well written badass Blade 1 type movie.
I think what this will lead to is a transition era where we won't be in a great Renaissance of Films, TV, and entertainment, but it will be a healing period where we get decent middle of the road movies.
I doubt it. They're only going to become more emboldened and push even harder. They could never admit they are wrong. They can never keep shut about their politics because they're activists first.
I miss proper plot structure even if it's used in a basic way. At least most things used to make sense. Hollywood has forgotten how to pull off a heroes journey at all. I wouldn't mind some normal movies that go back to basics for a while. Simplicity is often best.
Hollywood has not been about "empowering women" but overpowering men. The women of the original IPs that the film industry has trashed in recent years-from Carrie Fisher, to Karen Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, Margot Kidder-were always the intellectual and moral equals to their male co-stars. They were engaging, charismatic, charming and had great scene-chemistry, but that was not enough, because these women has physical limitation that men did not, not in spite of those characteristics, but to inspire them. That modern female protagonists are intellectually and morally superior to the men around them is taken is a given, but now they have to embody an almost physically impossible power fantasy, eliminating all risk, sidelining jeopardy and disengaging audiences by removing all stakes. Presumably, to soothe the feelings of a generation who think drama and tension are an emotional risk that aren't worth the reward and the artistic priority can be summed-up in one word: safety.
Hollywood feminism is beneficial sexism towards women, and hostile sexisms towards men -- there are subsections of feminism against it, but they're less popular.
That generation doesnt exist tho. As rhe viewership nrs show, people arent playing these forced invlusion games or watching these movies. Its a few loud people who studied journalism being loud
There's a video about diversity in games becoming a flag for pattern recognition by Greg Owen that says it well. So many games and movies come out that shoehorn in this token character that is just there to appease people that look like that person. And it's funny because gamers do one thing, no matter the game, recognize patterns. So the fact that a token character was pushed front and center with crappy Guardians of the Galaxy writing, the neuron firing in your brain says "Hey, didn't 4 other games do this and they all were boring slop, maybe we should pass." So they've done this thing where they hire crappy writers that give token characters a personality that is ONLY about their tokenism, and no one but that 0.1% of people that act or think that way can relate to. Instead of telling a story about the human condition, overcoming adversity, or giant cats from mars whatever. But instead of the story being the focus, they have all this crazy stuff going on and the focus is... How oppressed or ostracized this character feels from those evil corpos. AT BEST. The rest of the time it's a story about a character with no personality that is the best and everyone claps when they fart. That's awful. So our choices for characters in movies and games have been Netflix's "Damsel" or Taash from DragonAge. Nothingburger or insufferable. That's a shame. The fact that you have no limits when you put pen to paper but then limit it to a worldview of modern day SanFran you rob yourself from creativity, you rob the pen of its ink, and readers of their time.
I've seen people like YMS make arguments against the criticism for Intergalactic, saying stuff like "how can you assume what it's about if we only have the teaser." This is a guy who regularly judges movies based on trailers.
Exactly. My favorite game is about a race of genderless, skinny aliens. My next favorite game stars a short Asian woman. I don't have a problem with "diversity". But when I see someone who looks like they just walked out of a feminist grievance rally, shaving her head and slurping soda with the flippant Borderlands/Marvel "everything's a joke" Millennial attitude that drenches every activist production, along with taking down giant monsters with her(?) 110lb frame that looks like it could barely lift that laser sword thing.. five different alarm bells are going off that tell me this Intergalactic game thing is going to be really annoying.
They're moving away from it because they lost. whoever the writer of that article is completely told on themself, pretend to like something because they're on their side.
They're not moving away from jack. It's all BS fo the headlines. Pretending until it's safe for them to do it all over again. They never learn and they never change. It's not possible.
Whole thing seems fishy. Like even the way the beginning quote was worded seem backhanded. "We can stop pretending to like something because it has the right politics, or because the people most vocally against it are Nazis". Like they're saying "sorry, we were trying to be good guys but since you want us to be evil I guess we can". We no longer have to pretend, we can like the things Nazis like. We can like the wrong politics.
@@Aughtelthat line wasn’t even right. Shang Chi’s not Marvel’s last “Asian” superhero. Kamala Khan’s South Asian heritage was shoved down everyone’s throat. She had her own tv show *and* a movie. But it flopped so they ignore it.
@@alexisschiffer4830 everything from that was a backhand. "We no longer have to pretend to like them because of right politics, we no longer have to pretend we like them because Nazis are against it". Basically, as I'm taking it, "sorry we were trying to be good. But since you want us to be jerks, alright then. No more Asian heroes, we'll just use this white guy."
Due to DEI hiring practices Hollywood no longer has the talent working for them to write propaganda in a subtle and entertaining way that no one will notice. Propaganda only works when people don't realise they're being propagandized and when the vessel for the message entertains them.
@@tubguinace because this tactic is used by bad faith activist to try to argue and if you were genuinely curious you could do a modicum of research instead of rely on people to give you opinions
No, they don't! All the money lost to indoctrinate moviegoers in their beliefs in the long term is nothing compared to what they want to achieve. Because all the billions of dollars 💸 are already injected by puppet masters that run behind the curtain.
Can Hollywood finally learn (they won't) that they can include as much of politics in movies as they want as long as it will lead to a good movie. Like, we used to have that - good political media, whom encouraged audience to think, not beating them in a head with right answer.
I love that people are waking up to the fact that companies have using performative activism in order gain a profit. The same people that call their critics “grifters.” There’s a term that was coined to describe this tactic. It’s called ‘rainbow capitalism.’ And the beauty of it is that a fair bit of these critics come from same demographic of people these companies are trying to pander to. Minorities. Women. Members of the LGBT Community. Everyone is just sick of it.
The critics from the pandered-to groups were just called self-hating. If you’re black you’re supposed to like inferior quality content because it has a black person. If you’re white you’re allowed to criticize and want better quality. (This is the leftist rule, the actual supremacists)
It can’t be for profit. Companies have been losing revenue for upwards of a decade now with no sign of changing. It’s only after the 2024 american election that change is being made within these companies. Even before the 2024 american election, the ideology was already working on going undercover via stuff like BRIDGE. The 2024 american election likely accelerated their timetable, which in turn will hopefully make their undercover attempts fail.
It didn't even have anything to do with being a good person or helping people, it was just a power grab. It was a game people realised they could play to get positions and influence, and to tear people down they didn't agree with. People are just finally coming around to realising that just because something sounds like it has good intentions, that doesn't actually mean that it does. Most people had never heard the term "gas-lighting" 10 years ago, and now everyone is keenly aware of it and constantly looking out for it.
And now we just need them to apologize to the general audience for calling them bigots after so many years of asking Hollywood to be less political. Yeah...I know, it's never gonna happen.
When "diversity" is the main if not the only thing advertised about a movie/show, that's a massive red flag, because the show/movie most likely doesn't have anything else going on for it.
For a long time, since the 90s but in the 90s the political ground was different. What's now center left like Elon Musk is deemed conservative too. In the 90s Musk would be seen as a liberal. That's why the Disney princesses or the power rangers were diverse, but nobody would complain if a movie had an all white cast just a few anti white racists. But since 2016 or so with Ghostbusters we've been enduring a very radical form of DEI
Hollywood was never genuine. Money talks and they’ll never learn their lesson. They’ll claim to stop, but once it’s cool they’ll be loud again. Tinseltown’s memory’s one-sided and selective. I.e: Shang Chi isn’t Marvel’s last or only ‘Asian’ superhero. South Asians are ‘Asian’ too and they emphasized Kamala Khan’s Pakistani heritage (yet cast Indian actors to play her family). But the show and movied flopped so she’s ignored. Even at its peak, companies carefully calculated everything to appeal to international audiences and never practiced what they preached.
call bs they're just going to be on the down low about it on a side note this is why all the crazy people lost they kept attacking anyone who did not get in line smh
True, they luckily screw themselves over. It used to be that anti western and anti family propaganda was subtle and made the nhilistic western polulation dislike their own hertitage and community. Now theyre not very good at it luckily. I mean even i didnt think it was subtle in all the family dramas with disgusting dynamics where the women are implicitly celebrated for being needlesly entirely self centred, mean and hedonistic, and have men be useless pushover slob dads, or celebrated for being shitty players, but i guess its not clear until someone points it out.
Another overused term is "gaslighting," but in this case the shoe fits since Hollywood and the media has spent the last decade doing exactly that to audiences. Now that they see which way the wind is blowing they admit "yea, we never liked that trash either." 🤦♂
"Diverse" odes not mean that to those people. It means "excluding straight white people, especially men." It means a race-swapped KKK view. And it also means "there are only two races, whites and blacks. Jews and Asians are also white".
If they don't have real principles, this will be IMPOSSIBLE. Specially if mostly of them (and many consumers) still believe things like "inclusion" are not political moves.
If original content was made instead of riding piggyback on existing franchises while either changing existing characters or replacing them for someone else... I am confident that there would at least be less controversy.
Disney and the others will be soon tired of same opinion substance. It will either fall into the ground, turn into total chaos or those people will finally decide to stop making these decisions and hire people with better qualities.
We all suffered because Big studio bosses were raping women or big studios were producing racist films back in the 1940’s. We all had to suffer because of it.
Of course, the lesson Hollywood will learn here is that they should not include any diversity or messages whatsoever. Entirely the wrong lesson, as usual.
That “pretend to like” quote will bother me for years to come. I have seen so many people called some truly horrible things for voicing displeasure over bad entertainment. They were being honest, and where attacked by the institutions admitting they were lying.
We are entering an era where art and culture are not supposed to be political, have a message, and take a stand. Politicians are even suing caricaturists and comedians for defamation and mockery if they are made into satire.
I think for me, what draws me to your videos is that you aren't woke or antiwoke, you are just critical of bad film making. There isn't any underlying agenda. You are a better reporter than the NYT in terms of what's ACTUALY happening. I like their crossword puzzle, but as far as reporting goes, they suck.
Most normal people are anti-woke. Most of us don’t think people should be judged based on immutable traits or judged by the basis of what their demographic group does or has done in the past. Normal people just don’t say woke or anti-woke as that’s mostly an internet thing
@@eddiejohnson4434 I second that. I've just watched three videos from this channel. Jess _is_ antiwoke. She just makes sure not to be associated with the bad apples from our side (and she's right).
I think the thing that is most frustrating thing is that when the very people that are being represented criticize these things they are accused of hating themselves. 😒 I have tourette’s syndrome for instance. I said I would never want a person with my disorder shoehorned in just to check a box. I was then told I had internalized phobia towards my disorder for thinking that. No one can think for themselves unless they’re supporting a certain narrative I guess! 🙄
To be fair the Telegraph is a rather conservative news outlet in the UK. Not like far right more centre right, even our “Conservative” party over here are centre left and are not actually right wing.
I hated and I mean HATED The Eternals and that had nothing to do with racism or sexism. It didn't....... That movie sucked hard and I was right about it. I don't care if you call me racist for it! Because I'm not.
As a gay guy ive always appreciated your honest and nuanced takes. Ive never viewed you as a grifter or alt right or anything like that. In terms of this article that your talking about though it does kind of have me worrued as a gay man that these companies are just gonna stop writing characters like me. Cause i get it in a sense. Gay people arent like ither groups where you can physically see what makes the "different". Like women and people of colour will always show up in media and have some form of representation. But gay people are very easy to erase from view if you just never include them in your writing. Growing up ive always had a hard time with feeling alone and othered due to the fact that in media there were never any gay roll models and in the past few years its been nice in the sense that theres always been hope to see a cool character in a movie or show who also happens to be gay, that in comics, gay characters like Wiccan and Hulkling, and even Iceman even though his storues havent always been good. Yes it sucked that the storrues werent always good with some of the characters but it was was better than the literal nothing weve gotten for since ever. Takes like those present in the article make me worried well revert to nwver having gay characters or that they'll undo things like Iceman coming out as gay cause people had a lot of issues saying that it ruined his character (even though the X-Men has always been about marginalized groups qith plenty of queer subtext) when in reality, many men come out as gay later on in life even after theyve had girlfirends in the past. It was a honestly really nice bit of representation though admittedly handled really poorly with him being outed and then his first solo run being not so good in terms of writing. I can very much see diensy and marvel deciding that "oh people dont like this cause it has gay people" theyre easy to erase so well just remove the fact that theyre gay" or something like that. And while i did say i understand that its harder to write gay characters, really its not. Just write them like anyone else but oh he mentioned his husband or he has a normal romantic subplot with a guy. Like we dont need all the over done coming to terms with the fact that hes gay and shaming the people around him for not being progressive enough when they literally didnt do anything wrong. Im happy that stories might go back to quality writing, but im scared ill never see a character whos like me again in anything.
Banning politics completely? Like for real done? Dude, The best movies, shows, episodes were about serious politics. How should we ever get a a deep movie,show etc with a deep message?
this might be a little dramatic but hearing this video makes me so happy, nearly all the friends i have (including pretty much all the people in my college classes) are all too afraid to say anything about this kinda stuff because there will always be other students (EVEN TEACHERS QUITE FRANKLY) who tells us that we can't have open, nuanced discussions about this or really anything because it will be "transphobic", "racist" (even though i myself am a "person of color" and almost all of the time, the things that get called those things aren't even related to trans people or race). this video actually does make me very happy, thanks for being so open and not fixated on the "political correctness" of everything like so many people in my life are
I am an author (with "right" leanings) and one of the problems with the whole "DEI" stuff is that it is mudding the water of creativity. As a writer, I published a book last year and it includes a character that I imply is in a lesbian relationship. It just felt like it fit the character. I did not focus on it as that was not relevant to the plot, but I implied it with a couple mentions. I also noticed that the book has a lot of prominent female characters, including the villain, the before mentioned woman, and a few other key figures. The current book I am working on is a fantasy novel centered around a 10-year-old girl. She is the central character and has a semi-savior storyline. The girl is inspired by my 9-year-old daughter. It also includes a former rogue now cleric who becomes her guardian during the adventure. I have some books planned following her adventures as well. These choices were not done to be "inclusive" or cater to the DEI crowd. They just fit the stories. In the case of the main character of my fantasy novel, I am writing it for my daughter... something she can read and show off to her friends. She wanted to show off my first book at school, but it was a little to mature for that. I want something she could show off to her friends In any case, the problem is that the whole DEI crap is that it is a hinderance to good stories. When an author or writer DOES include a character that fits the DEI standards, they are open to scrutiny for just including the character to cater to the "woke." My philosophy... if it fits the story and setting... include it... whether the character is a strong female, representative of the LGBTQ+ (did I get that right), or racially diverse. But it should not be done, and adaptations or reboots should not change characters, just to check off boxes. That practice strips the story of any soul through forcing ideals onto the audience. Well... hey... that's my two cents, anyway.
We've been saying this for eight years. They've been gaslighting us for nearly a decade. Honestly I can count on one hand the amount of times I've been to the movie theater in that time because I didn't want to dish out money for a movie ticket to risk getting propagandized to. I love movies. I do hope this means things will get better.
You can't question the material while working on this bs anymore than you could as a fan without being attacked. Everything is brave, bold, beautiful, and destined to be mediocre at best
Newsflash: Diversity does not equal "non-bigotted." If you agree that it doesn't _matter_ what your race/gender/and so on is, that _is_ to say you're "anti-diversity," because diversity as such is a theoretical concept that prioritizes those characteristics over all else. Can't be a fence-sitter. Sincerely, look into critical theory (feminist theory, CRT, intersectionalism, queer theory, etc.). These folks are not your friends or appreciators of art.
Nothing ages movies & TV shows quicker than blatant political crap - I LOVE LUCY is still a classic after all of these years and never once mentioned the president of the Untied States or any political stuff which gives the show a timeless quality. And while ALL IN THE FAMILY is a classic, Nixon jokes just don't play today but Lucy lighting her nose on fire in front of William Holden is still hilarious!
“We have learned we cannot make easy money by shaming customers into buying garbage. We will find a new way to get them to buy garbage.” Maybe Disney and Hollywood will make stuff we wanna watch, but I doubt it. It’ll still be trash but without characters who demand you use grammatically incorrect pronouns.
GRIFTERSSSSS???? I died 😂 tables are turning, I'm glad that you stuck to your personal beliefs and perspectives despite all the free hate going around. I really appreciate your analysis and content, thank you and keep going 💪happy new year!
You had an interesting take. I would just raise one concern. The New York Times is not a person. It is an institution. A company comprised of many people. An individual person wrote that and held that opinion. I don’t think we can assume anything about the companies or how most of those people comprising the NYT actually feel about this topic.
I'm just tired of them fucking up established characters and turning them into cringe self-insert OCs for political brownie points. If these people were good writers, maybe they could still make their bastardized versions work. But the fact that the content they're in is usually garbage too speaks volumes about the skill of the writers. They're more worried about diversity points than making a good show, movie, or game.
Taste is very subjective. Many times, people have accused me of lying about liking a show like She-Hulk for sonme political reason but I just ignore it for the most part.
I also enjoyed she hulk I've watched it three times now I think. It's ok to like things others think are bad, and people who sneer need to give their heads a wobble.
Hollywood should go back to giving their viewers what the viewers want, instead of giving them what Hollywood thinks they should want. And if they don't do that, well, I wouldn't miss Hollywood at all.
I think we are seeing a hose shoe shift where ppl are too prepared to avoid a diverse character for fear that they will follow the same bad writing trends that Hollywood tends to pair with them and thus feed a loop where avoiding risk becomes doing more fast food level movies with white main characters like Deadpool and Wolverine and then slowly more diverse characters will trickle back into those projects
@waterbeauty85 its a derivative of the horseshoe theory, which proposes that the further along either end of the political spectrum you go, the more similar the politics. Give Horseshoe theory a search, they'll be more there
My favorite female action hero who saved the day is the girl from Adventures in Babysitting. I watched that movie like crazy when I was a kid. She saved them kids by single the blues and walking I beams above the bad guys building to get the playboy
Eh…warning to headphone users… sorwy 😢
Too late
(Also can I have a link to these websites?)
Sorry won't bring back my hearing 😂😂😂. It's okay, Bells, it's been building up inside for so long you needed to say it.
You are a gifter. I got my main Google account of 9 years banned for criticism of the Biden laptop...AND I'M A NOBODY. Where were you during SOLAR FREAKEN ROADWAYS in 2015. We were calling this crap out during Amila Scsrisian in 2012 back when rap battles were the greatest thing.
@@realjesterbell My pc speakers were turned up, freaked my dogs out lol.
Did she even have a channel that far back? She's not that old.@@TempoLOOKING
Remember the time when Disney did diversity right without even trying?
It was when straight white men were handling most of the stories, weirdly enough.
@dereklopez9060
Yeah. Those were good times.
@SethPlato01 Not most of the directors, at least none I can think of in movies that would qualify.
Aladdin - white Americans
Mulan - white Americans
Pocahontas - white Americans
Lilo & Stitch - white Americans
The Emperor’s New Groove - white Americans
Brother Bear - white Americans
The Jungle Book - white German American
Moana - white Americans
@@alexman378 Now check the producers... maybe some spreadsheet alredy exist, hollywood its all kosher
There are still things that came out in the last few years that did it right. Mayhem is an action/horror/comedy with Steve Yeun as a lead, and it pulls no punches with any of the characters. The most hateable characters aren't just the evil white male CEO, but also a black woman and a disabled man. No politics whatsoever other than some generic "corporate mindset bad" and a very facetious "I hate that women aren't treated the same in the workplace" **begins beating a woman recovering from being tazed.**
Violent Night is good too, the most political spouting character is literally the big bad with a victim mentality and refuses to take responsibility for his own actions like breaking into a house and pushing an old man down the stairs leading to his death.
I'm still waiting for the mainstream to admit that censoring/altering works from the past was also wrong and that the original works need to be preserved.
Yeah, even I got called a grifter for being anti-censorship. What a time to be alive.
I didn't expect to see you here Omni Viewer.
I'm cool with putting warnings on stuff that contain language or situations that might trigger someone. Then they csn just avoid the situation like if it's a movie that wouldn't be appropriate if made today. Like Blazing Saddles. If you're snowflakey, then it's not a movie for you. But if you were around in the 1970's, it's ine of the best Mel Brooks movies ever.
@@fakshen1973 Tbh, I've heard there's even a website where you can find out which triggering things are in various movies. I think it's called "does the dog die".
The people who need to know whether something very specific happens in a movie can usually just check online.
How does one "grift" and make money by wanting corporations to NOT spend their billions on "updated" versions?
@@fakshen1973 Yeah, I feel that there's a difference between a content advisory and a trigger warning. The former tells you what to expect and lets you decide to proceed from there. The latter sets you up to take offense sight unseen.
I prefer the former.
Man, I don't know how many times I've been accused of being a right-leaning racist bigot because I talked about how I didn't like a show or movie; when I listed the reasons why...and I never once mentioned about race or gender, but actual legitimate criticisms.
Same. I've been accused of racism and bigotry even though I've already given them legitimate reasons why I don't like a horribly written movie or show. And not once did I ever mention race and gender. Not once. And they still accused me of that BS anyway. This is exactly why I don't take the shills / Disney cultists seriously. They'll literally pull out the "your racist" card as an easy way to dismiss criticisms. Which is a very weak argument. And when I asked them for proof, they couldn't do it.
For example, I didn't like The Little Mermaid ( 2023 ) because it's literally the exact same as the original film with less creativity and more inferior changes to the story. And the visual effects are so dull and worn out in comparison to the original, where it looked more colorful. This is the same company that gave us Davy Jones from Dead Man's Chest back in 2006, so there's absolutely no excuse for Disney to make CGI look so much worse than before.
So true. The feebs that dismiss any statement not in lockstep with their political dogma as "-ist" or "-phobic" are intellectually lazy and tiresome. To live in a free society requires a thick skin, and we need to restore that expectation in Americans. Let's hope there's some healing going on.
I stopped being apologetic about it when I realized Iėftoids should be glad they’re even allowed opinions after everything they’ve done. Once I figured that out, I realized that every single thing they were saying was inferior by default, therefore shouldn’t be validated by being defensive.
Same. I've been accused of racism and bigotry even though I've already given them legitimate reasons why I don't like a horribly written movie or show. And not once did I ever mention race and gender. Not once. And they still accused me of that BS anyway. This is exactly why I don't take the shills / Disney cultists seriously. They'll literally pull out the "your racist" card as an easy way to dismiss criticisms. Which is a very weak argument. And when I asked them for proof, they couldn't do it.
I've realized that if they are incapable of having a conversation they aren't worth explaining yourself to.
Let's be honest, we all knew they were pretending the whole time
Well no. The people on top and bottom do. I know my cousin us part of the problem. They even ruined my 30th birthday. Makes summoning a demon..REAL tempting...
It's a bunch of DEI burocrats creating problems to justify their own existence. A massive conflict of interest.
Yeh when Disney did the whole remove FINN for the CCP market or make "gays" not exist for their products in the middle east...
Yeh they were money chaser hypocrites who use virtue signaling as a tool to appear moral... Nothing more.
Why it was not obvious since then? is beyond me.
@@TempoLOOKINGSummoning a demon won't help you, as this forced agenda itself is evil masquerading as good.
At the top yes in middle management they had true believers who are actually crazy.
MSM: "We no longer have to pretend to like something because it has the right politics"
Me: Well, well, well. How the turntables.
The "right" politics
MSM was being disengenioius there.
I have always had the utmost respect for your willingness to criticize media despite the backlash and harm to your reputation, especially since you've largely maintained a moderate and rational perspective. Your passion is refreshing. A lot of people, myself included, have become jaded and apathetic toward pop culture due to all the politics on screen and behind the scenes. With that said, don't forget to take care of yourself. A lot of the people actively spouting lies just for clout, money, and ideology aren't worth your time or energy.
Hollywood avoiding politics kinda sounds too good to be true
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It is. They're no doubt trying to find a way to mask it better.
It’s not politics that’s the problem, it’s the people they hired to write the politics who don’t know how to do it with subtlety. Writing’s an art form and at this point, it’s a science.
That’s because it’s not lmao, the political landscape defines the culture. Right now there’s going to be a Republican in office, which means the media is going to start pandering to right wing audiences instead of left wing ones. As soon as a democrat gets into office again, the pendulum will swing back to the “woke” side of things. This is how it’s always been.
@@Brotherofthe4thCompany Even if they made good propaganda, it would still be propaganda and people would get tired of it eventually. I'm not saying art should never be political, but it can be apolitical, and that would be a much welcome relief in times when everything is constantly trying to remind you of how horrible the world is, or trying to manipulate you into joining some belief system. Also sorry if my reply sounded aggressive, it wasn't the intention
They’re not gonna avoid politics.
See no one hates diversity... just what these people claim diversity to be about. They could easily tell stories from all over the world from different cultures but they don't. They could tell stories from Japan, China, India, England, France, Brazil and the list goes on. They've corrupted that word into something it never was, diversity should never be about what a single piece of work is and the range of cultures represented. It should be about the entire industry, and diversity in a story should be about character diversity. How characters have different values, beliefs and go on different arcs. If a story is about Vikings than it should represent what Vikings look like, their culture, their values and so on. If it's a modern day romance in New York in 2023 than yes you represent modern day times. See we have plenty of representation in fiction, it just isn't congealed into every single story. As when that happens it makes everything feel generic, and this has especially hit fantasy TV hard and it kills any sense of geography or cultural differences.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s... Remember The Titans and Million Dollar Baby are 2 of my favorite sports movies. One movie covered racism pretty heavily and the other featured a female boxer in an era when women weren't really taken seriously in combat sports.
RtT was based on a true story, and when the real Head Coach, Herman Boone was interviewed, he said that the movie juiced up the racism a little bit, but he loved the movie. He was also asked whether some1 really threw a brick thru his window and he said, "No. In real life it was the top of a toilet." So here's this guy who coached a newly integrated team just after the Civil Rights Movement, and he is saying that the racism wasn't too bad in Virginia... in 1968. Yet, 75 years later, we are supposed to believe that America is ruled by racism.
This is the least racist and most tolerant era in human history, but this new generation of Hollywood is just too ungrateful to appreciate it. One thing they really need to stop doing is these actors interviewing actors segments. Makes them look so dumb.
@@RustCole01"racism wasn't too bad in 1968..." it's asinine comments like this that explains why America remains divided.
@RustCole01 @RustCole01 UA-cam1984 hiding my disagreeingcomment. Scared ofmyopinions.
Actually, "diversity" for them means "eliminate straight white people, especially men". It doesn't mean including more cultures and genders (well, you can only have two genders, anyway, and those have always been included).
@RustCole01🙄🤡
"At least we no longer have to pretend to like something because it has the right politics..." Hahahahaha, imagine coming out and _admitting_ you did this. What a weasel.
I actually thought they loved Ghostbusters 2016 and Rings of Power🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, this is just one writer; I'm sure there's at least 12 people out there who honestly enjoyed it.
@@vitreo1363 it is definitely a favorite for married cousins
@@vitreo1363 I don't believe that. The people who would enjoy it don't watch that kind of stuff. Also, the writer/director was not making it for the audiences, they were making it for themselves. "Representation" means only, and exclusively, "I wanna see MYSELF (the writer/director) in the characters.
Who is going to tell them that they never did have to do that, they just lacked the moral courage to not do it?
As a black man I don't understand why they race swap characters instead of just putting the already diverse ones in the shows and movies. It is like a hand me down, I don't want a black tony stark give me a well written badass Blade 1 type movie.
What are you referring to?
@@Dru2037Race swapping characters. Didn't you read the comment?
I think what this will lead to is a transition era where we won't be in a great Renaissance of Films, TV, and entertainment, but it will be a healing period where we get decent middle of the road movies.
I’d like that. I’d like that very much.
@@Brotherofthe4thCompany i do think that's going to happen. Life is a pendulum, and it can always swing back in the right direction.
I doubt it. They're only going to become more emboldened and push even harder. They could never admit they are wrong. They can never keep shut about their politics because they're activists first.
I miss proper plot structure even if it's used in a basic way. At least most things used to make sense. Hollywood has forgotten how to pull off a heroes journey at all. I wouldn't mind some normal movies that go back to basics for a while. Simplicity is often best.
@@sammysstopmotionoas1996 I highly doubt it
Thanks!
Hollywood has not been about "empowering women" but overpowering men. The women of the original IPs that the film industry has trashed in recent years-from Carrie Fisher, to Karen Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, Margot Kidder-were always the intellectual and moral equals to their male co-stars. They were engaging, charismatic, charming and had great scene-chemistry, but that was not enough, because these women has physical limitation that men did not, not in spite of those characteristics, but to inspire them. That modern female protagonists are intellectually and morally superior to the men around them is taken is a given, but now they have to embody an almost physically impossible power fantasy, eliminating all risk, sidelining jeopardy and disengaging audiences by removing all stakes. Presumably, to soothe the feelings of a generation who think drama and tension are an emotional risk that aren't worth the reward and the artistic priority can be summed-up in one word: safety.
Hollywood feminism is beneficial sexism towards women, and hostile sexisms towards men -- there are subsections of feminism against it, but they're less popular.
That generation doesnt exist tho. As rhe viewership nrs show, people arent playing these forced invlusion games or watching these movies. Its a few loud people who studied journalism being loud
I think you mean "but UNDERpowering men".
Well said.
There's a video about diversity in games becoming a flag for pattern recognition by Greg Owen that says it well. So many games and movies come out that shoehorn in this token character that is just there to appease people that look like that person. And it's funny because gamers do one thing, no matter the game, recognize patterns. So the fact that a token character was pushed front and center with crappy Guardians of the Galaxy writing, the neuron firing in your brain says "Hey, didn't 4 other games do this and they all were boring slop, maybe we should pass." So they've done this thing where they hire crappy writers that give token characters a personality that is ONLY about their tokenism, and no one but that 0.1% of people that act or think that way can relate to. Instead of telling a story about the human condition, overcoming adversity, or giant cats from mars whatever. But instead of the story being the focus, they have all this crazy stuff going on and the focus is... How oppressed or ostracized this character feels from those evil corpos. AT BEST. The rest of the time it's a story about a character with no personality that is the best and everyone claps when they fart. That's awful. So our choices for characters in movies and games have been Netflix's "Damsel" or Taash from DragonAge. Nothingburger or insufferable. That's a shame. The fact that you have no limits when you put pen to paper but then limit it to a worldview of modern day SanFran you rob yourself from creativity, you rob the pen of its ink, and readers of their time.
Who's Taash? I think you mean Traash.
I've seen people like YMS make arguments against the criticism for Intergalactic, saying stuff like "how can you assume what it's about if we only have the teaser." This is a guy who regularly judges movies based on trailers.
Greg Owen has a lot of good content
www.youtube.com/@gregowen2022
Exactly. My favorite game is about a race of genderless, skinny aliens. My next favorite game stars a short Asian woman. I don't have a problem with "diversity". But when I see someone who looks like they just walked out of a feminist grievance rally, shaving her head and slurping soda with the flippant Borderlands/Marvel "everything's a joke" Millennial attitude that drenches every activist production, along with taking down giant monsters with her(?) 110lb frame that looks like it could barely lift that laser sword thing.. five different alarm bells are going off that tell me this Intergalactic game thing is going to be really annoying.
They're moving away from it because they lost. whoever the writer of that article is completely told on themself, pretend to like something because they're on their side.
They're not moving away from jack. It's all BS fo the headlines. Pretending until it's safe for them to do it all over again. They never learn and they never change. It's not possible.
Whole thing seems fishy. Like even the way the beginning quote was worded seem backhanded.
"We can stop pretending to like something because it has the right politics, or because the people most vocally against it are Nazis".
Like they're saying "sorry, we were trying to be good guys but since you want us to be evil I guess we can". We no longer have to pretend, we can like the things Nazis like. We can like the wrong politics.
No more Asian heroes, back to Tom.
Nobody said you can't have Asian heroes.
@@Aughtelthat line wasn’t even right. Shang Chi’s not Marvel’s last “Asian” superhero. Kamala Khan’s South Asian heritage was shoved down everyone’s throat. She had her own tv show *and* a movie. But it flopped so they ignore it.
@@alexisschiffer4830 everything from that was a backhand. "We no longer have to pretend to like them because of right politics, we no longer have to pretend we like them because Nazis are against it". Basically, as I'm taking it, "sorry we were trying to be good. But since you want us to be jerks, alright then. No more Asian heroes, we'll just use this white guy."
Due to DEI hiring practices Hollywood no longer has the talent working for them to write propaganda in a subtle and entertaining way that no one will notice. Propaganda only works when people don't realise they're being propagandized and when the vessel for the message entertains them.
That would explain Christina Hodson.
Why are you mentioning propaganda though?
@@tubguinace so you're that far behind the discussion, huh
@@lancearnedo7837 Why not just get me up to speed?
@@tubguinace because this tactic is used by bad faith activist to try to argue and if you were genuinely curious you could do a modicum of research instead of rely on people to give you opinions
I do love how all these idiots really thought that these corporations were really into helping anyone but themselves with all this moral posturing.
How many of them claim to be anticapitalists in their actual life is not even funny,just insultingly dumb.
Wait, so billion dollar corporations DONT care about us!?!?! I’m SHOOK
I am shocked. Shocked! ... Well not that shocked.
Yeah, those CEOs are safe from them,they only celebrate the death of non-Hollywood ones.
No, they don't! All the money lost to indoctrinate moviegoers in their beliefs in the long term is nothing compared to what they want to achieve. Because all the billions of dollars 💸 are already injected by puppet masters that run behind the curtain.
Thank you for posting so regularly, it's always a pleasure listening to you! ❤
Can Hollywood finally learn (they won't) that they can include as much of politics in movies as they want as long as it will lead to a good movie. Like, we used to have that - good political media, whom encouraged audience to think, not beating them in a head with right answer.
Yeah just about every film Oliver Stone has made had political things in it but the story and characters was always the main focus.
That's the problem. They don't want you to think, or come up with an answer that's different than their "right answer".
@@phootaphan9166 Nah; the problem is that making people think is not as easy as telling them to.
Leftist ideology focuses more on propaganda than profits
Im very happy that its not implicit propaganda like it used to be. Now people wont watch this stuff when they can see what it really is.
I love that people are waking up to the fact that companies have using performative activism in order gain a profit. The same people that call their critics “grifters.” There’s a term that was coined to describe this tactic. It’s called ‘rainbow capitalism.’ And the beauty of it is that a fair bit of these critics come from same demographic of people these companies are trying to pander to. Minorities. Women. Members of the LGBT Community. Everyone is just sick of it.
It's not done in a subtle or even reasonably sensible way.
The critics from the pandered-to groups were just called self-hating. If you’re black you’re supposed to like inferior quality content because it has a black person. If you’re white you’re allowed to criticize and want better quality. (This is the leftist rule, the actual supremacists)
It can’t be for profit. Companies have been losing revenue for upwards of a decade now with no sign of changing. It’s only after the 2024 american election that change is being made within these companies. Even before the 2024 american election, the ideology was already working on going undercover via stuff like BRIDGE. The 2024 american election likely accelerated their timetable, which in turn will hopefully make their undercover attempts fail.
Thing is you can be political/ "have a message" in movies without " The Message" taking over the entire movie
Exactly.
It didn't even have anything to do with being a good person or helping people, it was just a power grab. It was a game people realised they could play to get positions and influence, and to tear people down they didn't agree with. People are just finally coming around to realising that just because something sounds like it has good intentions, that doesn't actually mean that it does. Most people had never heard the term "gas-lighting" 10 years ago, and now everyone is keenly aware of it and constantly looking out for it.
The money was NEVER there
Laundered money lol (i have 0 evidence for this but it definitely seems fishy).
And now we just need them to apologize to the general audience for calling them bigots after so many years of asking Hollywood to be less political.
Yeah...I know, it's never gonna happen.
😂😂😂
Im fine. What some wealthy plutarc says about me or anyone barely ranks as fart noises. Ignore them.
wow it's almost like the modern audience never existed.
I like your takes. I can tell that your primary concern is the quality of the product
"W Word Pass"
Crash Bandicoot: WOAH!
When "diversity" is the main if not the only thing advertised about a movie/show, that's a massive red flag, because the show/movie most likely doesn't have anything else going on for it.
Calling people “Nazis” for not liking a movie is crazy & I’m glad everyone is FINALLY starting to realize this.
"FINALLY starting " That issue has been around for decades,there is no "Finally" to that.
You must be super naive.
“Well that only took (insert how long they’ve been doing this) f*cking years”
For a long time, since the 90s but in the 90s the political ground was different. What's now center left like Elon Musk is deemed conservative too. In the 90s Musk would be seen as a liberal. That's why the Disney princesses or the power rangers were diverse, but nobody would complain if a movie had an all white cast just a few anti white racists.
But since 2016 or so with Ghostbusters we've been enduring a very radical form of DEI
i can respect that u dont want to use woke it totally CAN be overused.
Hollywood was never genuine. Money talks and they’ll never learn their lesson. They’ll claim to stop, but once it’s cool they’ll be loud again. Tinseltown’s memory’s one-sided and selective. I.e: Shang Chi isn’t Marvel’s last or only ‘Asian’ superhero. South Asians are ‘Asian’ too and they emphasized Kamala Khan’s Pakistani heritage (yet cast Indian actors to play her family). But the show and movied flopped so she’s ignored. Even at its peak, companies carefully calculated everything to appeal to international audiences and never practiced what they preached.
North-western Indians and Pakistanis are the same race, only their religion is different. That's not really a big issue imo
Merry Christmas again Jesterbell!
Not coming out of the gate condescending and idiotically singleminded is a good first step.
For a second I had to actually stop and try to remember which movie Wish was. What a fart on the wind it was 😂
Until Zendaya stops being cast in everything then it's not over.
Malcolm X talked about this long enough but the left never listened. Now here we are.
call bs they're just going to be on the down low about it
on a side note this is why all the crazy people lost
they kept attacking anyone who did not get in line
smh
True, they luckily screw themselves over. It used to be that anti western and anti family propaganda was subtle and made the nhilistic western polulation dislike their own hertitage and community. Now theyre not very good at it luckily. I mean even i didnt think it was subtle in all the family dramas with disgusting dynamics where the women are implicitly celebrated for being needlesly entirely self centred, mean and hedonistic, and have men be useless pushover slob dads, or celebrated for being shitty players, but i guess its not clear until someone points it out.
Another overused term is "gaslighting," but in this case the shoe fits since Hollywood and the media has spent the last decade doing exactly that to audiences. Now that they see which way the wind is blowing they admit "yea, we never liked that trash either." 🤦♂
Diverse stories are good, but they have to be.... well, good.
They have to NOT be propaganda which is what Hollywood was doing. Just push black actors anywhere don't matter the character or fittingness.
@@NTNG13and they'll never change. They're not capable of it
"Diverse" odes not mean that to those people. It means "excluding straight white people, especially men." It means a race-swapped KKK view. And it also means "there are only two races, whites and blacks. Jews and Asians are also white".
If they don't have real principles, this will be IMPOSSIBLE.
Specially if mostly of them (and many consumers) still believe things like "inclusion" are not political moves.
People without moral principles are shitty people. Simple as.
If original content was made instead of riding piggyback on existing franchises while either changing existing characters or replacing them for someone else... I am confident that there would at least be less controversy.
This was a really fun listen during my way home from work. Thanks for the vid, it really made my night 😂
I'll believe it when I see it.
Disney and the others will be soon tired of same opinion substance. It will either fall into the ground, turn into total chaos or those people will finally decide to stop making these decisions and hire people with better qualities.
It's been a nightmare since 2016, when political correctness went too far.
We all suffered because Big studio bosses were raping women or big studios were producing racist films back in the 1940’s. We all had to suffer because of it.
it was bad from 2016 - 2019 but it went through the roof from 2020 to the present.
Amd they'll do it again. They will only become more emboldened.
@blackjuju5154 I could see all that making a comeback due to our propensity to overcorrect.
Conservatives and liberals coming together to hate the Acolyte - that's beautiful.
Don't forget Velma (2023). She was the terrible hero we deserved and needed.
The difference is liberals didn't like it so they stopped tuning in. Conservatives kept watching to complain about it.
@ that’s funny
The year before that was Velma. I wonder which one it will be in 2025!
The grift is coming from inside the Mouse!
Of course, the lesson Hollywood will learn here is that they should not include any diversity or messages whatsoever. Entirely the wrong lesson, as usual.
LOL, so true the Evil Disney Company being "Grifters."
That “pretend to like” quote will bother me for years to come. I have seen so many people called some truly horrible things for voicing displeasure over bad entertainment. They were being honest, and where attacked by the institutions admitting they were lying.
Who did Hollywood think they were, lecturing the public on these issues despite their own ugly track record?
We tried to tell em, but they just kept on woking shit up. Im gonna hold onto my money until they go back to traditional values.
We are entering an era where art and culture are not supposed to be political, have a message, and take a stand. Politicians are even suing caricaturists and comedians for defamation and mockery if they are made into satire.
First time seeing one of your videos. Subscription earned. You deserve a much bigger audience.
Nature is healing. The madness we've collectively had to put up with for the last 5-10 years is over.
I think for me, what draws me to your videos is that you aren't woke or antiwoke, you are just critical of bad film making. There isn't any underlying agenda. You are a better reporter than the NYT in terms of what's ACTUALY happening. I like their crossword puzzle, but as far as reporting goes, they suck.
Most normal people are anti-woke. Most of us don’t think people should be judged based on immutable traits or judged by the basis of what their demographic group does or has done in the past. Normal people just don’t say woke or anti-woke as that’s mostly an internet thing
@@eddiejohnson4434 I second that. I've just watched three videos from this channel. Jess _is_ antiwoke. She just makes sure not to be associated with the bad apples from our side (and she's right).
Hollywood desperately trying to stop ??? That's a good one XD,XD,XD.
I'm glad Snow White 2025 is not woke. 😂
2 unskippable ads literally every 2 minutes now. Thanks, UA-cam. Keep making your platform shittier
You on mobile?
Hope you had a great Christmas as well, JesterBell! Thanks for your perspective.
This mean they are going to back to generally writing good stories and characters? That's all I want.
I think the thing that is most frustrating thing is that when the very people that are being represented criticize these things they are accused of hating themselves. 😒 I have tourette’s syndrome for instance. I said I would never want a person with my disorder shoehorned in just to check a box. I was then told I had internalized phobia towards my disorder for thinking that. No one can think for themselves unless they’re supporting a certain narrative I guess! 🙄
To be fair the Telegraph is a rather conservative news outlet in the UK. Not like far right more centre right, even our “Conservative” party over here are centre left and are not actually right wing.
So much damage has been done, that even if this is a genuine change in Hollywood (it's not), it would be too little too late.
they said the quiet part loud!
Being a critic does not make one a hater.
Maybe society can now finally heal... 😌
It feels good to be right.
For once we get the last laugh.
I think this is a great idea, I waych and consume media to get AWAY from politics and the real world not be preached to from both sides.
One side. Even lefties have left the modern left.
On the videogame front the enemy has refused to relent, they had rather their studios shut down from DEI failure than make a good product.
It's been ever since _The Force Awakens_ that you can't critique a film without being called an -ist of some kind.
Absolutely spot on, every word.
I hated and I mean HATED The Eternals and that had nothing to do with racism or sexism. It didn't....... That movie sucked hard and I was right about it. I don't care if you call me racist for it! Because I'm not.
As a gay guy ive always appreciated your honest and nuanced takes. Ive never viewed you as a grifter or alt right or anything like that.
In terms of this article that your talking about though it does kind of have me worrued as a gay man that these companies are just gonna stop writing characters like me. Cause i get it in a sense. Gay people arent like ither groups where you can physically see what makes the "different". Like women and people of colour will always show up in media and have some form of representation. But gay people are very easy to erase from view if you just never include them in your writing. Growing up ive always had a hard time with feeling alone and othered due to the fact that in media there were never any gay roll models and in the past few years its been nice in the sense that theres always been hope to see a cool character in a movie or show who also happens to be gay, that in comics, gay characters like Wiccan and Hulkling, and even Iceman even though his storues havent always been good. Yes it sucked that the storrues werent always good with some of the characters but it was was better than the literal nothing weve gotten for since ever.
Takes like those present in the article make me worried well revert to nwver having gay characters or that they'll undo things like Iceman coming out as gay cause people had a lot of issues saying that it ruined his character (even though the X-Men has always been about marginalized groups qith plenty of queer subtext) when in reality, many men come out as gay later on in life even after theyve had girlfirends in the past. It was a honestly really nice bit of representation though admittedly handled really poorly with him being outed and then his first solo run being not so good in terms of writing.
I can very much see diensy and marvel deciding that "oh people dont like this cause it has gay people" theyre easy to erase so well just remove the fact that theyre gay" or something like that. And while i did say i understand that its harder to write gay characters, really its not. Just write them like anyone else but oh he mentioned his husband or he has a normal romantic subplot with a guy. Like we dont need all the over done coming to terms with the fact that hes gay and shaming the people around him for not being progressive enough when they literally didnt do anything wrong.
Im happy that stories might go back to quality writing, but im scared ill never see a character whos like me again in anything.
Banning politics completely? Like for real done?
Dude, The best movies, shows, episodes were about serious politics.
How should we ever get a a deep movie,show etc with a deep message?
Yeah. This isn’t a “bright new future for Hollywood.” Safe, bland, and inoffensive is what we have to look forward to. An endless stream of Moana 2s.
A show ABOUT politics is not a POLITICAL show.
common sense is alt right now.
Boom! You just nailed it - it’s evil to use diverse people as a shield against criticism.
Have had the same problem in gaming. Poorly designed and executed games hiding behind the shield of DEI when they get criticized.
this might be a little dramatic but hearing this video makes me so happy, nearly all the friends i have (including pretty much all the people in my college classes) are all too afraid to say anything about this kinda stuff because there will always be other students (EVEN TEACHERS QUITE FRANKLY) who tells us that we can't have open, nuanced discussions about this or really anything because it will be "transphobic", "racist" (even though i myself am a "person of color" and almost all of the time, the things that get called those things aren't even related to trans people or race). this video actually does make me very happy, thanks for being so open and not fixated on the "political correctness" of everything like so many people in my life are
I am an author (with "right" leanings) and one of the problems with the whole "DEI" stuff is that it is mudding the water of creativity. As a writer, I published a book last year and it includes a character that I imply is in a lesbian relationship. It just felt like it fit the character. I did not focus on it as that was not relevant to the plot, but I implied it with a couple mentions. I also noticed that the book has a lot of prominent female characters, including the villain, the before mentioned woman, and a few other key figures.
The current book I am working on is a fantasy novel centered around a 10-year-old girl. She is the central character and has a semi-savior storyline. The girl is inspired by my 9-year-old daughter. It also includes a former rogue now cleric who becomes her guardian during the adventure. I have some books planned following her adventures as well.
These choices were not done to be "inclusive" or cater to the DEI crowd. They just fit the stories. In the case of the main character of my fantasy novel, I am writing it for my daughter... something she can read and show off to her friends. She wanted to show off my first book at school, but it was a little to mature for that. I want something she could show off to her friends
In any case, the problem is that the whole DEI crap is that it is a hinderance to good stories. When an author or writer DOES include a character that fits the DEI standards, they are open to scrutiny for just including the character to cater to the "woke." My philosophy... if it fits the story and setting... include it... whether the character is a strong female, representative of the LGBTQ+ (did I get that right), or racially diverse. But it should not be done, and adaptations or reboots should not change characters, just to check off boxes. That practice strips the story of any soul through forcing ideals onto the audience.
Well... hey... that's my two cents, anyway.
Now they can start to pretend to like the other sides stuff so they can feel like they are still on the right side of history.
We've been saying this for eight years. They've been gaslighting us for nearly a decade. Honestly I can count on one hand the amount of times I've been to the movie theater in that time because I didn't want to dish out money for a movie ticket to risk getting propagandized to. I love movies. I do hope this means things will get better.
You can't question the material while working on this bs anymore than you could as a fan without being attacked. Everything is brave, bold, beautiful, and destined to be mediocre at best
I'll believe it when we can go more than a month without another "subversive" stoic female led action movie or show.
Newsflash: Diversity does not equal "non-bigotted." If you agree that it doesn't _matter_ what your race/gender/and so on is, that _is_ to say you're "anti-diversity," because diversity as such is a theoretical concept that prioritizes those characteristics over all else. Can't be a fence-sitter. Sincerely, look into critical theory (feminist theory, CRT, intersectionalism, queer theory, etc.). These folks are not your friends or appreciators of art.
Nothing ages movies & TV shows quicker than blatant political crap - I LOVE LUCY is still a classic after all of these years and never once mentioned the president of the Untied States or any political stuff which gives the show a timeless quality. And while ALL IN THE FAMILY is a classic, Nixon jokes just don't play today but Lucy lighting her nose on fire in front of William Holden is still hilarious!
“We have learned we cannot make easy money by shaming customers into buying garbage. We will find a new way to get them to buy garbage.”
Maybe Disney and Hollywood will make stuff we wanna watch, but I doubt it. It’ll still be trash but without characters who demand you use grammatically incorrect pronouns.
GRIFTERSSSSS???? I died 😂 tables are turning, I'm glad that you stuck to your personal beliefs and perspectives despite all the free hate going around. I really appreciate your analysis and content, thank you and keep going 💪happy new year!
You had an interesting take. I would just raise one concern. The New York Times is not a person. It is an institution. A company comprised of many people. An individual person wrote that and held that opinion. I don’t think we can assume anything about the companies or how most of those people comprising the NYT actually feel about this topic.
Good writing is good writing, encompassing *all*.
Thank god I was not wearing any headphones
I'm just tired of them fucking up established characters and turning them into cringe self-insert OCs for political brownie points. If these people were good writers, maybe they could still make their bastardized versions work. But the fact that the content they're in is usually garbage too speaks volumes about the skill of the writers. They're more worried about diversity points than making a good show, movie, or game.
Taste is very subjective. Many times, people have accused me of lying about liking a show like She-Hulk for sonme political reason but I just ignore it for the most part.
I wish I could like bad shows like that. It opens up so many options
Lol, fair enough. But damn, your taste sure is... different.
You can like whatever you want. But you can't say the show was good. That's not subjective.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461saying something is good/bad is not subjective?
I also enjoyed she hulk I've watched it three times now I think. It's ok to like things others think are bad, and people who sneer need to give their heads a wobble.
Hollywood should go back to giving their viewers what the viewers want, instead of giving them what Hollywood thinks they should want.
And if they don't do that, well, I wouldn't miss Hollywood at all.
I think we are seeing a hose shoe shift where ppl are too prepared to avoid a diverse character for fear that they will follow the same bad writing trends that Hollywood tends to pair with them and thus feed a loop where avoiding risk becomes doing more fast food level movies with white main characters like Deadpool and Wolverine and then slowly more diverse characters will trickle back into those projects
What's a "hose shoe shift"? I've never heard that phrase before, so I googled the term but got zero results.
@waterbeauty85 its a derivative of the horseshoe theory, which proposes that the further along either end of the political spectrum you go, the more similar the politics. Give Horseshoe theory a search, they'll be more there
Great video!! 👏👏
My favorite female action hero who saved the day is the girl from Adventures in Babysitting. I watched that movie like crazy when I was a kid. She saved them kids by single the blues and walking I beams above the bad guys building to get the playboy
Oh come on you know full well the real hero of that movie was Thor Girl.
@Drums_of_Liberation haha a better 100% than in love and thunder. In fact that whole movie was edge of your seat entertainment