Writers are DESTROYING Hollywood And Claiming Victory 

Whenever I hear actors/directors saying it's for the "modern audience" I know it's going to be garbage not worth watching.

There's no way in hell 72% of Americans support that asinine strike.

As an indie author, seeing these trash scripts getting backing of studios while original good stuff not even being accepted by agents... makes me think I am doing this at a very wrong time in human history.

They've absolutely destroyed every franchise we loved with their weird, spiteful revenge politics, and they expect us to side with them?

When was the last time you watched a movie or a tv series and thought "wow this is so well written and entertaining!" And not "what is this fanfic and why is it pushing this propoganda on me"?

I'm in the Industry, have been for 30 years. I was SURE that the Minimum Staff in the Writer's Room thing was an ask just there as a negotiating tactic. It's an idiot request. It's interesting to hear that this is a sticking point for them. The Union Leaders are playing Silly Buggers with their own membership.

The poll that claimed "72% of Americans support the strike" is an example of how easy it is to create bullshit statistics to support any position by carefully worded survey questions. In this case, the question that generated a "whopping 72%" of people in support of the striking writers and actors wasn't "do you support the striking writers and actors?" The question was some version of "whom do you support more: the striking writers and actors, OR the studios?" And since most people blame the studios even more than they blame the writers for the rash of utter shit foisted on the world under the guise of entertainment in the past several years, when presented with an eother/or scenario, most people preferred the writers over the studios. But I'd love to see the responses to a different question, maybe something like, "do you support the demands of the striking writers and actors OR do you consider them to be a bunch of overpaid, out of touch, whiny elitists who think they have the right and moral obligation to tell you how to live?"

There's an interview on Jimmy Dore's channel from May with one of the WGA strikers, Neil Casey (from SNL and Inside Amy Schumer, lol). Due to the chat being full of people who were unsympathetic because of the bad writing now, Dore's sidekick Kurt Metzger asked him to address that issue. Casey said any money losses the studios incurred from people not wanting to watch their products should not fall on the writers. He also claimed that any such complaints were because people had been duped by the studios, who were trying to make the strike into a "culture war" issue. As though people weren't complaining about bad writing long before. The guy in general seemed out of touch with audiences- something we've suspected about many of the current writers.

These writers should only get a performance based salary. This would starve them out.

Thousands of good writers would love the chance to write for a big show or movies. Far more than are in the union.

Writers? What writers? Hollywood hasn't had writers since at least 2015 surely 🤔

I am so happy to see Disparu fixing to blow past 200k and find that other gear he'd been holding back till now. I've got to say that I' 've never seen a channel hit the ground running more so than Disparu. Keep it up and thank you. Bravo!

They’re claiming victory when the shows’ viewerships and ratings are low and the companies are losing money. So, if it’s a victory, it’s only in their minds

I hope the strike continues to reach the one year mark. I have no sympathy for either side and have lost no quality entertainment. I think a full collapse would be incentive for improvement.

Every time I hear that "starvation wages" clip, I want to ask them: if you're starving while you're working, how can you afford to strike for so long?

Imagine writing She-Hulk, Velma, Willow, Rings of Power and the Wheels of Time and unironically demanding a raise.

I hope the strike continues for years. The longer, the better.

The studios probably love the strike. Since almost nothing is making any money these days, NOT making movies or shows is more profitable than making them.

They think they've won the war because they've won a battle, yet they didn't even win the battle, they just barely survived and called it a victory.

Considering how writers have created PC crap for the last 5 years, and how my favorite review of Indiana Jones 5 was that the writing was so terrible it was as if it was written by AI, when in reality it was written by 4 humans. I have no empathy for these writers, they totally dont get the assignment given to them. We want to be entertained not preached too.

They should give the writers who write good shows and films a large pay-rise. Both of them deserve it.

The pop-culture pundits have been saying what the problem has been for years: "It's the writers. It's the writers. It's the writers." And I agree with that assessment. So it is hilarious to me that the writers are saying: "We totally ballsed this up - now give us more money." They think they deserve a pay rise. Everyone else thinks they deserve a pink slip.

The only thing I will miss about Hollywood is all the content they provided youtubers who make videos pointing out just how bad it is lol

When actors confuse themselves for PR… This is a great example of why the studios hire PR teams to manage the “talent”

Its going to be funny when these writers reach the "find out" part where no one misses their garbage or wants them back. Tell me an AI could generate anything worse than the Disney remakes.

Disney cutting shows from their streaming platform isn't for the tax writeoff. It's because shows sitting on their platform have to pay out residuals to the writers and actors, even if they are viewed by no one. Disney doesn't have to pay shit if they don't show it at all.

They are calling it “starvation wages” but they were offered more than double what my hubby and I make together… in 2 months! And they would make that weekly! It’s nowhere near “starvation” it’s upper middle class and like 3x the average American income! Why is it entertainers and Politicians make so much more than the people who pay them. It’s only so long before that leads to a collapse.

The movie industries are going through their Google correction. The Google model ruined corporate and office life for a long time and the product paid the price. They have since corrected in the last couple of years by firing all of their garbage employees who just came there for the free food and the party. It was adult daycare, just like these writers rooms have become. Writers are more about the party then the content. Whatever changes happen during this strike you better believe most of these writers will not be hired back.

8:08 "You can't just voluntarily employee people your company doesn't need." Welcome to Unions 101

The other massive streaming disadvantage with streaming is if a show is a massive hit, subscription rates do not go up. With traditional TV, when a show hits big, they instantly increase ad rates, so there is a rapid increase in revenue stream. This could change with new ad tiers, but that is not the predominant streaming structure.

The writers are getting a taste of the real world here. They don't understand what compromise is (or even REALITY), as they are demanding they get exactly what they want and having temper tantrums when they don't. They don't know what they really want, and can't even agree with that, nore do they realize that what they demand will hurt them. If no compromise of the unions or Hollywood is met, than many of them WILL go hungry and will have to find another job like the rest of us. I prey that this crowd doesn't get violent.

To be honest, I'd love to see the studios decide they've had enough and basically blackball the union. When the wages they claim are "starvation" are more for one day than I get in a month, their "barely making a living" is over $20k a year and they have plenty of time for other pursuits then these "actors" should try working a *real* job at *real* wages. The amount that the script writers, many of whom are producing utter trash a 5 year old would be ashamed of, get paid is ludicrous. Over $100k per annum and they're saying it isn't enough? They need a serious reality check.

I have to say the longer this goes on the more money that walks to other entertainment avenues. This is truly just hurting their industry and the future of their jobs. Thanks for the well put together video as always Disparu!

11,000 a week is close to double what you could expect working a 40 hour week as an engineer (In Australian Dollars aka monopoly money), as someone who has felt absolutely no negative effect from the strike (if anything I've been having a better time now that they're not doing anything), if that's what they're being paid for content that even in my mid teens I realised was becoming more and more mediocre, it's no wonder I'm starting to properly realise how little I care if the whole industry burns to the ground

The WGA went into this strike without having anyone as their Chief Financial Officer and without someone acting as Legal Counsel. Their lead negotiator is some "Assistant Executive Director" So, in other words, they're going into a wage contract negotiation without someone with financial expertise and without a lawyer. Is it any wonder this has turned into a shitshow?

I feel like this is the worst moment in history for the writers to go on strike. I don’t think there has ever been more terrible. Movie and TV writing period then right now. Stay on strike forever, good riddance.

If you think about it; this strike encapsulates everything wrong with the writers today. Most of them have never experienced anything outside the pretend world of the film and media world. This explains why their material is so unrelateable to most people, and why they can't understand the reality of the current financial issues they and their industry faces.

If you ever wanted to know why unions are bull crap, this strike is why. They were given a fair offer by the studios and the union didn't even TELL THEIR WORKERS. They just dismissed it out of hand and tried to keep it secret

I think i speak for everyone that: “If Hollywood dies, it dies”

If the strike is keeping Late Night shows away from us, then I can see how people are in favor of it.

Imagine authors charging you every time you read their book that you bought at the store

$11000 a week!?!? Do they realize the median US salary is $1100 a week? They want TEN TIMES what most of us make for writing the trash we've had for the last few years.

I feel like some of those demands should be applied to essential workers. Those that the pandemic made into "heroes" then toss them back down after everything opened up. Not writers.

I wanna see the mainstream comic "creators" strike next.

I'm actually disappointed that the studios' offer was as generous as it was, that was an insane deal

I'd like to see a surge of playing old movies in theatres. Sure people can watch those movies anytime at home, but how often do you get another chance at the theatre experience of some of the classics?

keeping "late night comedy" off tv is a positive benefit to society

I think we, as consumers, should strike Hollywood. As long as they care more about ESG scores and wokeness.

Not gonna lie... Seeing Hollywood burn is the most the best entertainment they've produced this year.

What the WGA doesn't want the public to know is that there are internal grumblings within the WGA. It started back in 2019 when they picked a fight with ATA. That itself is a long story so you can look up all the details but in the end the WGA "won". Won their case but lost work and average income went down. A lot of writers who were already struggling had to leave the industry. The members who came out on top were the comfortable big-name writers who were able to keep a little more moeny that was previously going to agents. Not surprisingly, they're the ones who initiated the fight. The same thing is being played out now. Lower-level guild members had reservations about striking but were intimidated to fall in line by threat of not getting work and being ostracized as a traitor to the guild. The top members in the guild are living comfortably and can hold out much longer but it's the little guys who are falling into debt and thinking of an exit strategy. They're learning the hard way that the executives look after themselves and top writers because they bring in the most amount of dues. Lower ranking writers can starve and leave as they can be replaced by new faces who'll work for peanuts.

The writers are writing their own delusion

so you're telling me... these idiots have turned down a deal that would've let them only have to write two or three episodes every THREE YEARS and be able to earn 60k per year, which is the average income in America excluding the top 1%?!? ffs, and these people expect us to sympathize with them.

Who wants them to strike for ever? 👋

Buggers! I am (thank God!) a retired UK doctor. These rejected minimums for junior writers are far, far, more than I got paid at any point in my entire career!

When wordsmiths just cant seem to comprehend one word: Meritocracy.

WGA: You’ve lost! Studios: Who are you again? Public: Who are EITHER of you?

The writer and actor strikes have not impacted my life in even a miniscule amount. They both could continue for all of eternity and I will only notice when I watch a video discussing it. R.I.P. Hollywood, you will not be missed. Having said that, if my favorite RU-vidrs were to strike I'd be ready to riot. 😂😅

What a surprise the writers union's main(and apparently only real) requirement is requiring more writers, that need to pay union fees.

It's not really a threat to quit when your audience doesn't care if you stay.

We saw it with Gina Carano. It’s not enough to respect them and leave to their own spaces. They want us to march to their drum, to participate, to agree to the rules of their game, their worldview. They harassed Gina for not having any pronouns in her Twitter bio. An unskippable pronoun selection is exactly the same thing.

Hollywood is saving billions, well done, activists.... I mean, writers. Boop.

The funniest thing is they seem to seriously think they're right on the verge of winning a pay rise in hindsight for their entire career in the past 😂😂 the studios have barely acknowledged they're striking and basically left it at "starve then". They ain't getting shit. And the actors continued to work right up to the point that the strike made work dry up, and only THEN did they join the strike to beg for more money and remain relevant. When it became a choice between go home and wait or join the strike and virtue signal.

The poll probably only asked people in Hollywood. They already think they represent the whole world so why ask anyone else. Would be really bad if they only polled the writers.

Once the writers decided to attack Jenny Ortega for calling them out on their awful writing, I decided not to support their idiotic strike. Bring on the A.I..

the lowest staff level writers are earning 100k a year and they act that isn't enough? how can they be serious? its listed as a 29 week year.

I dont know one person who supports the writers strike. Mostly we are just celebrating the break from the trash they make.

The way 'we' don't care what sides tears down the other anymore, is worrying. We seem to be beyond the whole Hollywood Family. They have a long way ahead, if they even tried.

As I understand they want a guaranteed minimum compensation. Then the real problem is that they want huge streaming royalties. Which will make the cost of the product infinitely more expensive but not infinitely better quality. Because there’s no protection or guarantee for the studios to receive quality writing from these people.

Writers can make a guaranteed $100k for 9 weeks of work????? These people are the absolute worst

Great channel. Love the intelligent reasoning and discourse.

I think the writers have done such a bad job over the last decade that I'd love to see AI write the shows because it can't get worse in my opinion.

If there are minimum quota writers, then that should be their official title. They should also have a "minimum quota writer's room" that is clearly labelled as such. The same should be done for diversity hires. You wanted these quotas because you're proud of them, right? Well let's make sure everybody knows what you're all about. Let's all recognize your greatness. Be proud of what you accomplished!

The writer's strike and their growing anger has been the most entertaining thing Hollywood has produced in years!

Well I did a poll at work, a place where people don't make $10K a week... and 100% not only don't support the writers, 90% hope Hollywood burns...

I support the strike, please never stop!

Hey given the quality of writing that has recently come out, I feel confident I could fill in for the people striking as a scab worker. This being I am literate and can just follow the source material of whatever scifi or fantasy work the studio just bought the rights to.

Honestly would be entertaining if these Studios took a page from the Joker in The Dark Knight by breaking the billiards stick in half and telling the writers only a select few can win (figuratively speaking) a writing competition of sorts. The Studio gets a driven and competent writer, and the select Writers get a pay raise.

This strike continuing on until they end up losing their homes is probably the most entertaining thing they've created in over a decade.

I heard that the studios are saving money due to this strike, which is good after major losses. So, the longer the strike, the more money the studio saves.

$7,000 - $8,000 per episode, for the entire run of that sorry show picard that's about $240,000 - not a bad payment for a show that was awful.

I pray that that counteroffer is the best the studios are ever gonna offer the WGA. That was an insane deal. They should’ve taken it.

I've got such a large backlog of games to play I honestly wouldn't care if this lasts years

Let’s just start a new writer’s community.. fresh ideas.. reasonable requests.. quality writers from WGA welcome, as long as they comply..

So the writers of Disneys Star Wars, Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, The Wicher, Westworld season 2 deserve raises??

Wait! They think earning $45,000 a month is subsistence earnings. Of feck right off And earning $45k for a months work, is more than most get working 9 to 5, 5 days a week for the year. Hoping the studios can purge the majority of these baristas.

Absolutely nothing of human or cultural value has been lost because of these strikes.

Very good take. I love your videos, I recently stumbled upon your channel by accident, and love your commentary on the current topics.

The thing with communists is that they are secular. So the spiritual need that we all have is transferred to their political feelings. It's like a sort of zealotry. That's why their rants sound all fire and brimstone. Thanks m8

The harsh truth. Thank you for breaking this down for everyone to understand. Although some people probably don't want to realize and understand this.

Write and actors strike should go on for the next 20 years .

I'm totally okay for the strike go longer until all or most of the trash content get canned. Hoping when the studio and writers finally settle, we can see actual good content being made.

I'm not going to let an AI take credit for a "writer's" work. That is the vibe of this strike.

What the writers get paid should be based on the success of the box office, if a movie flops they get nothing.

I think artificial intelligence would do a better job than the Woke script writers.

These people talking about starvation wages-all they have to do is find another job that pays enough to keep them from starving, but they can’t do that. Their union isn’t helping them, it’s holding them down. They’ve put all their hope in something that’s starving them, and they can’t even see it.

They get paid millions for lying to us and they want more this is ridiculous (yes acting is just lying for money) if they can't manage to get by in life on the millions they make for acting in a movie for a few months worth of work stop living in mansions and buying stupidly expensive cars I don't get paid nearly enough to live but I don't start a picket line demanding more money omg I get on with it and do what I can.

I work in traffic control, I make 30 Australian dollars an hour and typically work 15 - 20 hours a week. Typically I make between 400 and 600 a week. If I have a 'good week' I get 3 or 4 shifts and make decent $$$ but there are so many people at the depot and they're all 'casual' so it feels like most people are fighting for scraps most of the time. I really feel for these Hollywood writers on 'starvation wages' of only $1,000 per day... the HORROR. And the actors who have to content themselves with a paltry few million dollars per picture... WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE ACTORS?!

I do not get the pay structure, so they were initially getting paid 7k a week for 20 weeks? so 140k a year? Lets look at the low end of the spectrum, 8k a week for 10 weeks, so 80k a year! Then they get 70k an episode? I guess to share among all the writers, so lets say there 10 writers so that is an additional 7k an episode. Lets say 6 episodes so that is an extra 42k so in total 122k a year? They call those starvation wages?

Love the way Disparu intercuts Zegler gurning at appropriate points!

There is an estimated 500,000 films already in existence. Enough to watch a new film every night for the rest of our lives. We don't need any more to be made.