@@pawnswizard1 They literally print the money brah.....Idk if you have noticed this but they just print more as they need to, to gain more control. Money is truly no object to those that own the printing presses.
@@SmoggyFroggyDisney doesn’t own the printing machines though. These companies have been slowly reversing course after loosing billions. Sure they had the money to keep the loses going for a while, but as someone else pointed out that can’t last forever. The us government isnt funding rings of power lol. If you stop buying it, it will die eventually, I promise you that.
They had it all, an endless supply of guaranteed homeruns for the small sum of 4 billion dollars - then they fumbled the ball, repeatedly and on purpose
When the stands become more and more empty, when the fans walk out of the game, they're the ones to blame for the team's financial ruin. Kennedy admits this, yet refuses to improve the roster.
They’re just the worst, well nearly the worst, the white male urban liberal is even worse. As they’re the ones giving them power & running after them telling them they’re great. And then they say “ah, can I get some action now? I’m doing good aren’t I?”.
The problem is that Kennedy and her ilk see it as their solemn duty to use any popular IP as a platform for their ideology. It never crosses their minds that most people simply want entertainment that allows *escape* from real life, not ham-fisted activism shoved down their throats.
@SeekSomethingMore everyone is anti facism, it's not a right thing, both sides can go too far. Internal politics to the story is fine, real life politics injected into another world is not.
@@SeekSomethingMore ahem, absolutely not. Left wing going too far is communism, secret police and people disapearing because they talk against the party. So same thing as too far on the right.
Disney are doing a great job of making other studios look absolutely amazing. For example, remember Universal's last "Puss in Boots" movie? It was a reminder what you could do, if you put basic story telling above social engineering.
@@andrewalexander7363wild robot was a great movie. Not perfect but was really well done. And it felt like it actually came from a place of love. Like they wanted to make something good and not try to subvert or any of those other woke buzz words.
I'm over sixty so; Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, Sydney Bristow (Alias). Batgirl and Catwoman (Eartha Kitt!) Alexis and Dominique (Dynasty) Pam and Sue Ellen (Dallas). Abby,Val and Karen (Kots Landing) I have never wanted for cool female characters. They just have to be GOOD ones. And don't get me started on music! Tina Turner, Teena Marie, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks....
It’s been more than ten years since I darkened the door of a book store. The last time I did, the entire SF/Fantasy aisle was full of fantasy/romance garbage about vampires and werewolves, and all of it was written by women I’d never heard of. All the old reliable authors I could count on have gotten too old and retired, or they are actually dead. Thankfully, I can find (almost) all their old out of print works on Anna’s Archive, so I have plenty to read on my iPad. Current day science fiction is a sewer, and (almost) every time I risk my time on it, I am disappointed with a floating turd of wokeness. I miss the good old days when I could walk into a mall bookstore, grab a paperback with an interesting hand painted cover and walk out with a good book. Some times an immortal classic.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve had to revert back to Ray Feist, David Eddings and Robin Hobbs. Thankfully I read their books so long ago, many of them are like new to me 😀
There's an old "wife-bad"-genre saying i heard: "In a reletiontips with women there's two kinds of things - hers and ours". And it seems it is exactly how west threats it's male-audience/male-created IPs. If it's for women by women - it stays that way, nobody adding Dragon Ball-esque fighting in Twilight, nobody adds Arnold with a shotgun in Harry Potter. But if it's something popular with men? Well, that's just wont do, that is sexist don't you know, we need to change that imbalance and Modern Audience will come.
The same is true of perceptions of race and culture. It is always "we want equal access to yours but keep your hands off of ours". You need look no further than The Acolyte to see this in action. Coven entirely composed of women? Empowering. Jedi order with women in most leadership positions and generally weak male characters? Empowering. Disproportionate representation of ethnic minorities? Empowering. The still diverse but somewhat more white male leaning version that it replaces? Bigoted and outdated.
Yeah, there's a weird obsession with messing with male-oriented things. If it's something made for and enjoyed by women, nobody thinks anything of it most of the time, not even when men occasionally enjoy it as well, but when it's something made for and enjoyed by men, suddenly there's a perceived "social imbalance" that absolutely has to be corrected.
As a writer, I just noticed this. It's almost all women. All I've spoke to have been really cool. But, being a novel that takes place in the Buccaneer Era, >100 years after European contact, if I'm obliged to use a sensitivity reader I'm going to insist she lets me quiz her ("yes, HER!") about Aztec and Mayan history and Guna culture. And I can't wait to point out historical examples of the "problematic elements" she's sure to find.
Not to mention trying to get published these days is an almost entirely women’s world. And they all want the same thing; queer BIPOC authors. Damn the story, damn the quality, I want my checkboxes. What’s that? You’re straight and male? Well you’re also wrong, so back of the line with you It’s so fucking frustrating
Any male writer able to write a half decent fetch quest novel with a relatable male protagonist, male comic relief sidekick, and female rival turned ally turned love interest could clean up these days as long as there is a cogent story structure and passably witty dialogue. I mean just look at what Rick Riordan pulled off with Percy Jackson.
The problem is they are not able to get published. Or at least published by any decent sized company. If you do not include all the typical liberal woke buzz words and tick all the boxes you're not even considered.
I can't believe Laura Dern was around 22 years old when filming Jurassic Park, I guess she's the kinda person that never really looked young, she always looked mature, or at least had facial features that made her look 30'ish.
I always assumed she was 30 something. And I don't see the problem she was pointing out. Was she supposed to be in a romance with Sam Niell in the movie? I never really saw them as being other than good friends and colleagues. Never got a romance vibe there, especially with her flirting with Jeff Goldblum.
I'm confused by that. I always saw them as a couple in Jurassic park, but I thought they were about the same age. She must really look old! It's not just gen Z looking old. XD
Excellent as usual! I had no idea the literary world was so over-flowing with estrogen. I think if we boomer men had known how things would turn out 60 yrs ago we would, instead of trying to relate and be understanding, have come down hard on the insidious, overwrought and narcissistic dogma called feminism.
There is an old Steely Dan song - Show biz Kids. that sums it up "Show business kids making movies of themselves, you know they don't givve a f.... about anybody else. "
This is amazingly well said, put, researched and ALARMINGLY relevant!, I'm an older guy in the music and writing industry and am genuinely concerned that we are being deliberately suppressed in both industries.
Well done, sir. I celebrate every word of this video. The pendulum swings, and I feel there will be a return to interest in men’s sensibilities soon, now that the monetary failures in film, television and gaming are now counted in the billions.
I have been saying this for years!!!!!! I literally just shared your video with my wife because she’s gonna get a kick out of it. I’ve been ranting about this for so long.
From "As Good As It Gets" ~ "How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away all reason and accountability." I think it sums it up perfectly when you look at a show like The Acolyte. The story was no good and there was no reason it should have been green lit for production. Then when it bombed it was someone else's fault.
I read a book a day. I find it increasingly difficult to find good new books. I generally avoid anything after 2015 now. 2015 seems to be the year that shit happened in everything- books, films, cars, games, politicians…
@@mxvega1097 It began much earlier. During Obama's presidency. People have poor memories. They forget about the recession, the bank bailouts, auto manufacturer bailouts, that huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that decimated wild life in the beaches across the south, the shooting of Treyvon Martin and Obama saying that could have been his son. They forget about his pushing LGBT stuff and dividing American by racial lines. Trumpism was a reaction to all of that stuff. The only difference is the media really went overboard with the attacks on conservatives around the time Trump first ran for president.
Wow, last year I bought an e-reader and was freshly confronted with all women author lists. I was completely taken by surprise. I had to go 4 pages down to finad a man. Wtf. I used to be completely opposite. My trust at the time in a valid read of one of those woman was hovering at 0-1 out of 10. Let's be clear, my all time favorite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. But that is a unique showcase that women can write great books, that women can be great like Madam Curie. Be great on their own two legs that is, and not lifted by discriminating reactionary discourse. Who would have guessed women can be admired by all, when REALLY being strong, smart, thoughtful and tenacious
I would agree that rogue one is the best of the Disney Star Wars movies. However, remember one thing about rogue one: it’s the prequel to the original Star Wars, which we all love and it was designed solely to answer the question how come there was the open port that Luke destroyed and also everyone’s favorite scene in rogue one is when Darth Vader kills everyone in the hallway. The best of a rogue one is linked to the best of Star Wars from years past.
I remember watching tfa a theater with my sister. And I distinctively remember the feeling after walking out of the theater: emptiness. It was not bad, not compared to what Kathlyn has given us after. But was just a weightless forgettable movie made to attract SW crowd.
One of my favorite videos you’ve done. The landscape of literature, especially scifi and fantasy, is overrun with mediocre female authors. it’s been driving me crazy. I felt like I was taking crazy pills with the sheer volume of uninspired slop on the shelves. As a demonstration to my friend, I searched “Military” on the popular library app Libby, the number one result is a book about being a woman in the service. 😂
@@SeekSomethingMoreWell, yes. The CEOS might be talentless and greedy but the people that actually do the work inside those companies need to be talented for the products to be good. Or do you think Disney became the massive company they are today by just throwing money into everything? No, they had great and talented writers that carried the company in their backs. And now that they've got rid of those talented writers, they are collapsing. But, I don't think you can understand that, considering it's obvious from all of your comments that you are a commie. You're in the wrong place, go back to watching Vaush or Hasanabi. You're not welcome here.
@@DioTheGreatOne no, Disney became the massive company they are today through exploitation. Sorry to intrude on your safe space, but I'm staying. It's also ironic that you are advocating for talent being valued, yet use the term commie as a pejorative.
I will always be a Star Wars fan, but only the Star Wars I grew up with as kid from 1977 to 1983. Not the Star Wars from 1997 to the present when it all went to hell with the cgi alterations, lackluster Prequels, Clone Wars stuff with Ahsoka that I didn't care about, and the woke Disney garbage that I refuse to watch and accept as canon.
The only ones that count are the first 3 films Lucas made in the 70s-80s. Everything that came after was either nostalgic fan service or corrupted with modern day ideology agendas.
Your thesaurus must be immense and very well used! Those statistics you quoted show what equality really means. Thank you for an informative and enjoyable video.
To be fair I also think a lot of men are writing under female names these days just to get published. But yeah it's been a while since I last heard of some "best selling author" really making a cultural splash. Honestly I think the writer of Harry potter or Game of Thrones are the only two I can even think of that are still alive that got famous enough to make it to talk shows and the like.
The Goodnight Kiwi will never be the same. Amusing use of that old footage though. I appreciate the New Zealand clips in general though. We usually see all the American stuff. Probably few people will know the New Zealand ones but it's a change of pace (also, those drink driving ads are too ridiculous not to mock).
Velma wasn't from a white woman. Neither was She-Hulk. Or The Eternals. Or Birds of Prey. Or The Marvels. A white dude created Willow. And Star Trek Discovery. And just gave us Joker 2. They are still the heads of Ubisoft. And getting their flowers for The Last of Us 2. And don't get me started on Robyn Hood. Or The Society of Magical- ... I mean, why single out one group when there's plenty of blame to go around?
As long as we're in a free market, any unaddressed market demands will be filled by alternative options. Hollywood is collapsing on itself and the demand for good stories and entertainment will being filled by foreign movies, anime, even RU-vid. I suspect the same will happen with literature.
Regarding "Concord" and "Sweet Baby"-market analysis typically comes first, followed by product adjustments to meet market demands. You don’t overhaul your product based on the "Woke" assumption of a new market, especially while abandoning the existing market that sustains your business. These "Woke" entertainment executives aren't just poor entertainers; they’re equally inept at marketing and business planning. They should never have been entrusted with the company's leadership or budget management let alone "entertainment resources".
EC, you're dead on target at 7:10 - the market is saturated with ideological crap, and no new authors can break into it without meeting the litmus tests. Couple that with the popular statement "fanfiction is plagiarism and should be punished by death" among the fandoms, I'm blackpilled regarding writing
absolutely, if you want to know what happened to video games look at developer staff photos from 10+ years ago and look at current ones and you can see why AAA video games suck now
Dev teams before: 20 regular guys with a black t shirt. Dev teams now: 4 troons that don't pass at all, 7 liberal white women with bright colored hair and gigantic eyeglasses, 3 activist black chicks that say the most racist shit you've ever heard in your life, and 6 white guys that are malnourished and balding.
I don’t think I’ve ever read or owned a female-authored book (perhaps a chapter or two of Frankenstein) or a Booker-nominated one. Apart from Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. G. Wells, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, et al. male- presenting toxic dudebros tend to enjoy books without feels but with advice about lifting, sports, war, self-improvement, etc. And Poe Dameron did the right thing!
The sad thing is that none of this HAS to be bad. Star Wars, rings of power, etc, all could have been good and entertaining, even with their disproportionate women cast, but these hacks completely blew it by making all the wrong decisions. You can have all the diversity you want so long as the story is good, but these people were just too concerned with stroking their own egos.
You know what really doesn't make sense about the current trend of trying to rewrite male-focusing franchises into female-focusing? Just prior to this trend, we saw over half a decade of successful, female-focused megablockbuster franchises. Twilight, 50 Shades, Hunger Games, Divergent. You can argue the quality of those franchises, but they were original stories that aimed for a female audience from the get go. And they were much more successful than trying to remake established franchises to be more feminine. I suppose it wasn't good enough that women had their own things to watch and men had their own things to watch. Everything needs to be made for women to watch and men can make do with nothing. The funny thing is, based on audience numbers and box office numbers, these remade franchises don't even seem to interest women. Studios aren't even trying to make the next Hunger Games-like series (aka a new franchise based off a popular female book series) The studios seem content with twisting a squashing established male franchises rather than trying to make something new that would genuinely appeal to women.
The early women writers were good because they had retained a male voice. Think of Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson, etc. They could bring up women's feelings while bringing in an intellectuality. Likewise for the women screenwriters of the 1940s, which was considered a Golden Age for women in film. The best creations had a male framework with female nuance. In contrast, I find the current female-led fiction or film either mushy or overly lush. All have a liberal message -- men bad, women good. The only sympathetic male characters are gay or politically liberal.
The problem is that they were invited in with the chance to enjoy these things equally. Then equality happened and they found they did not like it. At that point they decided that they must be the ones to define what is the most understanding way for a piece of media to be presented.
I mean, Brandon Sanderson is still chugging out _really good_ fantasy novels. Granted, he's a legacy name from when he started writing in 1990, but still.
You know I never noticed this until a couple weeks ago but your name is derived from “echo chamber”, hilarious. I always just looked over your name as some British name. 😂
I'd say it is way more than entertainment. Try working for any virtue signalling large corporation, SSDD basically. A place that used to be a great place to work turns into an echo chamber where the usual suspects mentioned here are endlessly whining about how bad they have it while sitting in the hot tub with senior management.
I whole heartedly disagree that "The force awakens" was in any way, shape or form a "serviceable entry". It was loathsome. The absolute best I can say about it is that it had a pretty decent setup at the beginning of the movie for the protagonist.
It's always people who are promoted beyond their competence and capability; it's just that right now its a lot of women at the top making decisions, who have been thrust their by corps and execs too frightened to learn the difference between what the company needs with what the company actually thinks it wants.
Its not that we are wary to change - There is no need to change it! It was great the way it was and multiple generations or all colors creeds and sexes enjoyed it
Echo, I love your thoughtful, insightful, and mostly funny media commentary. And, I hate your awkwardly inserted Mr Plinkett style vulgar, explicit sexual shock digressions. Please Mr Chamberlain, stick with the former and lessen or eliminate the latter. signed, a subscribed upvoting fan of yours PS - big thumbs up for your neat new NZ Kiwi avatar!
