Watching people celebrate Rooster Teeth's demise is a truly frustrating experience.
Yes, the company had a lot of problems, nobody is denying that. But that doesn't change the fact that 150+ employees lost their jobs.
This shit is so tiring.
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WBD Q4 earnings call was today 🤭
Today is the lowest $wbd stock has ever been
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Anyway since that one post blew THE FUCK up
Infinity Train
OK KO!: Let's Be Heroes
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
Close Enough
Elliott from Earth
Summer Camp Island
Steven Universe
Also you can still buy shows/episodes from iTunes, YouTube, etc. and remember to also show some love for the 2D animated shows that are still available/ongoing (either on HBO Max or from other streaming services as well as indie projects)!!! While this doesn't solve everything like the fact that a lot of these shows are now inaccessible to kids or the terrifying fact that entire pieces of pop culture can be wiped out overnight, it at least helps a little bit knowing that not all of these shows are completely gone to the sands of time.
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WBD CEO: We can’t have a guy who said/did racist and homophobic things in his past on TV he has since fully apologized for. Not even a tribute show after he dies taking his daughter to cheerleading practice!
Also, WBD CEO: We’re doubling down on Harry Potter and that guy who slapped the fuck out of his wife on camera two weeks ago!!!
Edit/Update: See also, the FUCKING FLASH
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i am going to personally buy WB/Discovery and my first order of business (after releasing Coyote Vs Acme of course) will be to produce a fully animated Looney Tunes theatrical film where the villain is an allegory for David Zaslav
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Continuing my ongoing effort to help push DC's Blue Beetle as we get closer to its release date, DC isn't pushing it across other social media platforms, it's been revealed that an officially licensed Blue Beetle Scarab magnetic pin is being exclusively sold by GameStop!
Here's some more details:
At an impressive 12cm (4.72”) tall, this is perfect to wear as a bold fashion statement or cosplay centerpiece, or displayed in the collector’s quality box. Only 8,000 units of this pin are being sold.
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With all the bullshit going on with WB Discovery/David Saslav’s sudden bullshit treatment of their animation content this felt appropriate.
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Never thought I’d live long enough to see a finished Looney Tunes movie become lost media.
Imagine being the head of Warner Bros and thinking “Hey, I know what we need to do to save money. Let’s shelve a Looney Tunes movie! It’s not like it’s an established franchise that people hold near and dear to their hearts, am I right?”
Fuck David Zaslav.
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Warner Bros. Confirms Coyote vs. Acme Isn't Dead Just Yet
🧐 interesting...
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Ok, so you know that whole "HBO Max killing off cartoons" thing that happened recently? So after some digging (and by that I mean watching this video from Shark3ozero) the situation is so much worse than that. Like... Monstrously worse.
In case you don't know, it's not just cartoons and their creators that have been f__ked over recently, but a WHOLE SWATH OF PoC CREATORS HAVE BEEN LAID OFF. Like, almost no non-whites left in executive positions.
Apparently, before the merger, Discovery has a more white, old, heteronormative demographic than HBO, and instead of trying to consolidate the 2 demographics, Discovery's CEO, David Zaslav, has been made into the CEO of both sides of the company, and is trying to turn one into the other. To this end, he has slashed the divisions overseeing kids, family and international content, and intends to create more content for "Middle America."
So yes, they cut Infinity Train and Batgirl and others BECAUSE. THEY. ARE. DIVERSE. CONTENT. They are deliberately removing different cultures from their services because catering exclusively to white audiences is more profitable... According to them. I have serious doubts this is casting the net wider instead of narrower. (Also, another part of the shift is that they want to pivot back to cable content and away from streaming, which... Lol, good luck man. Warn-scover-CNBO might already be on a collision course, and fingers crossed that it is.)
OH, BUT IT GETS WORSE. APOCALYPTICLY WORSE.
HBO also owns CNN, and they have a new chairman in the shadow of the merger, Chris Licht. It's already canned one news show, 'Reliable Programming' a show frequently critiqued the republicans and fox news, and has warned that "more changes are coming soon."
Worst of all, John Malone, who is on WBD's board, and gave Zaslav his job in 2006, has explicitly said that he wants to CNN to have a "less liberal bias", and thinks that Fox News "makes actual journalism." Yes, Fox dominating a third of US cable news is not enough, he wants to make another 3rd of it propaganda programming.
Warn-scover-CNBO's market capitol were flushed down the tubes in light of all this horses__t, but in order to keep the a new propaganda apparatus of unfathomable scale from rising, it must stay down and never recover. Warn-scover-CNBO's changes scaring off huge droves of people is an objective good, and the complete collapse of the company is our only hope now.
Tl;dr: The death of Infinity Train and Uncle Grampa is the canary in the coal mine of a massive swath of pop culture and journalistic practice turning into a right-wing propaganda apparatus unlike anything seen before.
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