WEIMARUSSY [they/them]

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: August 14th, 2022
  • WEIMARUSSY [they/them]tochapotraphouse•What the fuck
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    2 years ago

    Hearing these literally who's in the wild is horrific. I was watching a Melee video the other day and the mouthbreather brought up a book by Malcolm Gladwell. Buddy, you're a 30 year old gamer, what the fuck went wrong with you to have this guy occupy space in your brain?

  • WEIMARUSSY [they/them]tochapotraphouse•Predictions on Musk's Twitter?
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    2 years ago

    I think it is gonna crash and burn without any survivors, but I'd say "the site keeps trucking along but is shittier and stagnant like Reddit" is more likely than "dies and everyone leaves to the next big thing".

    Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/etc are the most popular versions of their respective form of social media, and if they do turn a profit, it's through arcane financial bullshit or based on cooked numbers. Forums never came back after reddit/discord, every attempt at creating another reddit has been a failure that's been unable to attract a sizable audience and would have been closer to achieving their goals if they didn't use this godawful format (see: this site). Combined with a crumbling internet infrastructure and declining living standards, the only way I see these platforms surviving the decade would be if the US government saw enough value in the social control that social media provides (which might be the case, there's a reason reddit's ran top to bottom by glowies) to where they'd dump cash in these companies to keep them afloat.

  • WEIMARUSSY [they/them]tochapotraphouse•maskless florida pizza church
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    2 years ago

    American Christianity is as far from god as you can get. You either have:

    1. The most holy event of the year is bingo night with a white elephant auction

    2. actively trying to create the third temple and uses all of their work sick days on rahowa

    3. the openly racist cult that's only allowed to exist in the desert because it produces enough g men

  • WEIMARUSSY [they/them]tomovies•Cartoon Network Studios, As You Know It, Is Gone Thanks To David Zaslav
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    2 years ago

    obviously Zaslav is a reactionary, a century earlier and he'd be in a room with Prescott Bush trying to woo Smedley Butler

    that being said I see this as less of a culling of LGBT shows and more just a culling of new programing period. Anything that doesn't exist as a loss leader commercial/isn't Teen Titans Go reruns is going to vanish from the network. Look at Adult Swim's schedule tonight.

    08:00 PM Bob's Burgers

    08:30 PM Bob's Burgers

    09:00 PM American Dad

    09:30 PM American Dad

    10:00 PM American Dad

    10:30 PM Rick and Morty

    11:00 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries

    11:15 PM Mike Tyson Mysteries

    11:30 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force

    11:45 PM Aqua Teen Hunger Force

    12:00 AM The Boondocks

    12:30 AM Rick and Morty

    01:00 AM Futurama

    01:30 AM Futurama

    02:00 AM Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil

    02:15 AM Mary Shelley's Frankenhole

    02:30 AM The Shivering Truth

    02:45 AM The Heart, She Holler

    03:00 AM Bob's Burgers

    03:30 AM Bob's Burgers

    04:00 AM King of the Hill

    04:30 AM King of the Hill

    Mike Tyson Mysteries has been canceled for two years and Norm's dead. ATHF, despite a desire from the cast to continue, is dead. The Boondocks has been dead for almost a decade, the attempted revival was canned, and even if it wasn't season 4 was bad. Frankenhole's been gone for over a decade, and even when management was slightly more favorable to creators on the network, they're never giving Dino a blank check again (despite the fact that the last time they did, he made one of the best seasons of television ever). The other three have been off the air for at least a couple of years, and if you put a gun to my head I couldn't tell you a thing about them. The rest, making up a majority of the runtime, other than Rick and Morty (which prints money in a way will ensure it's continued airing, even if it ends up as a show that only exists to sell plastic garbage like The Simpsons) are syndicated shows. You're not getting anime dubs regularly airing again, you're certainly not getting Big O Season 2 on weeknights again (if at all). If they have something homegrown laying around to fill up the time slot, great, but otherwise there's enough content out there that they can rerun and probably get good enough ratings, especially for the cash they save.

    To me, this is the encroachment of what we've seen from smaller cable channels in the past decade. As the costs of production get higher and rate of profit continues to decline, you're going to see the "G4ification" of what remains of cable. Original programing would need to pull in numbers that no show on cable could to survive, and even if it did, it'd still probably be less than reruns that the few remaining boomers who still use television tune in for out of habit. I don't think that they're going to start airing more Million Dollar Extremes or explicitly reactionary content (if that were the case, The History Channel would be airing the same wildly reactionary shit it did in 2005), I think it'll get to the point where channels have one or two new shows that still crank out merch money, and the rest is totally recycled. With how quickly we're seeing media contract and how these contractions (based off of 2008/late 70's) don't usually return to normal (the streaming service boom was a new revenue stream for capital and it's already dry to the point of dying itself), I could see new western animation stopping outright.