The Writers Strike is Stupid 

Is this satire?

Hollywood sucks. The writers and actors are in for a rude awakening.

When you are a head writer of a tv show and you dont get to afford health insurance while bob igor keeps his billions. Also a lot of actors dont make fists full of money. Also who do you think decides on what shows writers get to do? Executive producers or writers? The other thousands of homeless people should be unionizing too like ups did who actually scored a victory for workers rights and soon should the writers and actors should too. And there are plenty of good movies, if you actually look for them instead of just jumping on the hype trains for your marvel and transformers movies. Holy sht what a dumb take. 4:23 we can juggle and support them too, i dont know if you noticed but the government blocked their ability to even legally strike.

It's really hard to feel bad for them when they call the offer of 11K a week an insult. Even as contract work goes, a month of that is more than what a lot of Americans make in a year. I'm not a huge fan of the studios either but honestly the executives, writers, and actors ALL need to work in fast food or retail for a few months. Maybe it'll give them a taste of reality.

The people striking don't give a shit about all the lower-paid workers of the studio who don't get paid while this strike continues. camera operators, gaffers, lighting technicians, studio hands, janitors, sound and audio technicians, and many, many hundreds of other types of jobs all done in the background. they will have no health insurance, or home insurance, and can't pay mortgages. they probably had to find other work out of desperation..

they're forgetting all the other people other than writers that support film making that can't work because they've shut it all down. These days honestly the writing has been so bad its not really worth the money they are asking for. Not the say the CEOs and other people shouldnt take a pay cut though the amount some these people get paid for some of these films is stupid.

100% agreed. If Kubric was here to see this he would laugh his as off 😂

Not a single one of them has shown any documentation that they're all poor and about to become homeless. On the contrary, both major speakers for the strike, Danny Trejo and Fran Drescher, are in debt and are whining about having to sell extra homes to pay back debt. On the otherhand, the majority of grips, dressers and set designers are renting and near homelessness. The writers and actors guilds in Hollywood have taken staunch opposition to those workers obtaining a living labor wage. Writer and actors are already entitled millionaires that do not wish to live within their means.

You totally got me! I thought you were actually serious…or that this was seriously you being this intense. I was actually concerned for your wellbeing and thought “that poor man…he needs help” ha!

Holy shit dude, we are NOT going to agree on this lol. I really like this channel and a LOT of your videos make great points, but I don't think I agree on a single point here. But we can agree to disagree. Keep making good content and I'm glad you're at least honest with your opinions!

I agree with your points about the quality of writing being subpar/bad in today's media world. I would argue there's a lot of fantastic movies and TV shows being made still, there's a lot of shit yes, but there's a lot of great stuff as well. Maybe this video is satire and I've missed that. But the quality of the writing is the fault of the studios. The big fuck-off studios with the billions and billions they make in revenue every year. It's these studios giving writers tighter deadlines, wanting to use AI to churn out more shit scripts even quicker so they can turn an even quicker profit. The writers are striking for a miriad of reasons. One of them being to allow the writers room to come back. To get original ideas back. They don't want to constantly be writing shitty reboots or redos of beloved classics. They feel the shitty feeling of having a good original script be rejected by studio after studio first hand. So all your points about why they don't deserve this attention or money, all your frustration and anger at the writers, point it at the people responsible. It's Disney, Paramount, WB etc etc all trying to turn a quick profit, taking advantage of many writers and actors who are struggling to stay above the poverty line (the richer and more well known ones are there in solidarity of the poorer less lucky ones) so get angry at the studios. The bad shows and movies that fail on the most basic level of entertainment. They're the studios fault. Because they cut corners, they make these projects by treating the working folk like crap. They want to pay extras for a days work but take a 3D scan of their body so they can use them in future movies and TV and not have to pay them anything. These studios are sneaky, bitter, spiteful creatures. Out here to just have those profit margins go up. The moment you start making things as cheap as possible, the first thing to go is quality. By getting rid of the writers room, giving writers shorter and shorter turn arounds for projects. I don't know how you could have missed all of this before uploading this rant. The writers are striking to save not just their jobs but the quality of our entertainment. The studios don't care how bad a project is or a film or show so long as people tune in anyways to watch it. It's why Star Wars' quality dropped. Because they realised they didn't have to even try in order to get people to watch it. So before you go out there saying that it's the writers fault for the quality of the work. Think about who's hiring the writers, assembling the team, what conditions their working in and why.

All union strikes should be getting this much attention, wether or not it’s writers or other more vital professions. But that doesn’t mean writers aren’t deserving to be paid their worth, since due to streaming they aren’t getting paid the right amount for their craft.

I think we keep seeing it because all the articles are written by the “writers”

Fucking hilarious that they're complaining about half of their guild members making the minimum guild salary which is: A. $100,00 a year B. Literally set by the guild that's striking

You are literally blaming writers by what is a producer issue, their work is filtered by people that seek nothing but profiting on market trends

Cause Of That We Can’t Get Stranger Things For Sooner 💀

I just find it funny these people want more money based on residuals. I liken it to a plumber coming to your house, doing their job, and then demanding residuals every day because you use the drain or toilet they fixed. It's idiotic from the most gatekeep8ng community there is in the world.

They deserve more then I make in a few months seriously 11k a WEEK?!!

but what about the children?

Yasss, too fucking true. You rock dude, keep fighting the good fight!

My issue is that they think their work deserves residuals. Like why doesn’t all work get residuals. Why only writers ? It’s because they have a stronger and more exclusive union. I want them to win only bc I want them to beat corporate America and I think all work places should have unions for obvious reasons The reason Hollywood pushes politics and identity into films so blatantly and abrasively is precisely bc we live in a system in which nothing is really done about economic issues. So they have to project (left right and center) into identity politics more and more. It’s because these people are idealists they think you change material reality with pure idealism rather than what is actually happening which is that art is a reflection of material reality (which then reflects upon itself)

Have you stopped to consider that maybe the reason that the quality of the writers work is so subpar is because they are being given such sh**ty pay and limited time to vomit out these scripts and don't have the time or the money to justify going through it and redrafting to eliminate potential mistakes.

the strikers are spoiled little babies in the bodies of celeb adults

I write and engineer software for a living. If you think poorly written software is more about the software writers than the people in charge who create priority roadmaps where "quality" is at the very bottom, i have a bridge to sell you.

GOOD MOVIES - NEED GOOD WRITING!

How do those billionaire boots taste? Bye bye

You do realize the conditions the writers are part of what leads to bad entertainment? You can be mad at undeserved attention, but when you give it as much attention yourself and for such odd reasons it really waters down your message.

I’m with whitey

This has to be the least educated commentary I've ever come across

I don't think you know who is actually striking.

These writers can't provide any good stuff, I don't watch tv any more, because the writing sucks

Lmao alright dude

Rightoids cope and seethe. Good luck to the strikers 💪

Literally no facts, figures, evidence. Also bud idk if you've actually watched any old media besides the godfather or other prestige projects, because let me tell you writing was NOT GOOD back then. In fact writing atleast on TV has been better then ever (after 2007 writers strike HMM). Also blame the studios for funding trash IP driven projects, writers are simply working for a check on those, and also say it with your chest, don't suck off billionare studio executives who are actually the ones responsible for the drop in quality and then say oh tee hee just a joke. Also saying a group of workers in one sector shouldn't strike because workers in another sector are getting fucked by another billionare is not a good arguement bro, how bout we just support workers getting fair compensation? Also writer earned more back then due to the structure of the terms being suited for cable TV and physical media sales, not digital streaming like today which left out the writers.