Or Firecracker from the boys 🤣
Or Firecracker from the boys 🤣
I can see the benefits of AI in certain fields of work but why would you want it to take over in the creative industry? Isn’t tapping into your own creativity the fun part?
There’s nothing left to blast in ol’ Mitch, he’s already been running on fumes for way too long.
As an outsider I honestly just don’t get what people see in this idiot. How can you take someone that talk like that seriously? He sounds like a nutter that is promising crazy stuff that would literally mean the end of the USA as we know it.
If he’d get his way with this and the other project 2025 stuff it’d honestly be the end of America I think.
I wonder how the Trump fanboys are going to spin this advantagous decision as if the government is out to get him.
I’m still happy that I went through the effort to delete all my old posts when I left Reddit a while back. I periodically check if they’ve restored them and luckily it hasn’t happened so far. I do miss some of the bigger communities but overall I’m having a good time on Lemmy.
That’s what they did in my country when a bunch of the big banks almost keeled over in 2008/2009. They were temporarily (partly) owned by the state and eventually bought back their rights to operate as a separate business when things were going better again.
I quite liked the idea of Movember when I was younger, it seemed like a neat idea to grow a mustache over the month with some of your homies.
Nowadays I have a beard thanks to the lockdowns and the reduced shame of it looking weird at the start so no need for Movember anymore.
This whole conflict has just always felt like a massive grey area as an outsider. Both sides have done horrible things over the years, with the retaliation often being even worse. Most governments (including mine) are actually supporting both sides, for example through humanitarian aid. That’s just kind of weird when you think about it, in a way they’re enabling both sides to keep going. And I just don’t know if there’s any way out of this besides one side completely destroying the other. Peace talks have been had so many times and it just doesn’t lead anywhere. It just feels inevitable.
It'd be funny if he called him "Winnie the pooh" when he meets him to explain himself :)
I had a look and the current subscriber numbers for Disney+ are at 146 million, they haven't been at 164 million since Q4 2022. So they've actually dropped 18 million subscribers in less than a year, which is more than 10% of their subs.
I do agree that CEOs earn way too much money, they could get by earning much less and it would be nice if this money went to the other employees instead. However, I don't fully agree with the statement that writers can't afford a roof over their heads. I did some googling and the average salary for a writer in Hollywood is almost $70,000 a year. Digging a bit deeper, I found this:
Variety also reports that for a WGA member in 2023, writer-producers earn a minimum of "$41,773 for each 60-minute script, or $28,403 for each 30-minute script." However, staff writers are the lowest-level writers and are paid differently. In 2023, "[t]he median staff writer on a network show works 29 weeks for a wage of $131,834, while the median staff writer on a streaming show works 20 weeks for $90,920." (source)
So if these numbers are correct, a writer for a streaming show makes on average $90,920 for a 20 week show. If they have 2 of those shows a year, that's a yearly salary of more than $180,000 + 12 weeks of vacation at a minimum (don't know if they need the full 20 weeks to write the show). I know they live in an expensive part of the country but come on, you can't say that that's a low wage, regardless of whether you think they deserve more or not. If you look at the average salary in the entire USA (~ $60,000) they make about triple that. Hell, they make even more than double the average salary in California ($73,000) (source)
Thanks for the explanation and additional context, that helps put things into perspective a bit more. I understand that they want a different kind of monetary reward from streaming, hopefully they can get their deal eventually.
Fair enough, I guess time will tell then. I'm just wondering if the Hollywood accounting that gets mentioned below also gets applied to their revenue, meaning that it's in fact much lower than what they're saying. But I guess that's corporate accounting in a nutshell.
How do you know they're able to? Looking at Disney as a specific case, they've lost over 1 billion on their movies in the past 2 years and are constantly bleeding subscribers. On top of that there's also some persistent rumors that they got caught up in the whole FTX debacle and lost a bunch of money on that as well.
Also, as a quick aside: what would you consider to be fair to their workers? The wages I've heard being mentioned sounded pretty good to me already, especially compared to other jobs.
I'm really curious how these strikes will end. It feels like they've been going on for a long time and at a bad time for the studios as well, judging by how many movies are bombing at the moment + the streaming subscriber numbers. I'm just not sure if the studios will be able to ever meet the demands the strike is asking for, it feels like they're stuck in a downward spiral…
Also, from what I've heard here and there it sounds like they have some pretty crazy demands (something about a minimum writers room size of 8 or 10?) which are going to make it hard to ever come to an agreement, especially if those writers also need to be paid in full.
Besides the amount of content (and the occasional server issues) on Lemmy I haven’t missed anything about Reddit after switching.
More like Firecracker I think.