#BOB IGER

[re-bee-key]

I pointed this out in a Discord server I'm in and thought Id share here:

Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.

Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.

I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.

Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.

So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.

They are going to use excuses like "not enough funding for the server capacity" or "not enough views to warrent keeping the show". These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.

Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.

And keep supporting the writers' strike.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[animentality]

[odinsblog]

[knightofleo]

"And I think that’s a fucking shame, Bob"

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"ugh mickey mouse hasn't been in the public domain for a week and people are already starting to make cheap horror movies????? people need to get creative they always go for low budget cheap horror as soon as something goes into public domain it's stupid" speak for your goddamn FUCKING self I hope bob "wait out the strikes until the workers start losing their houses" iger sees trailers for "steamboat willie: blood in the water" and starts crying so hard he shits himself

[heisenpink]

Bryan Cranston gives a speech at a SAG-AFTRA strike rally and addresses Disney's CEO Bob Iger

[referencees]

If any of y’all are still out here simping for disney after the heinous shit bob iger said about the sag-aftra/wga strike I think you need to rethink….your entire moral code really.

I don’t care if you love the creative IP Disney owns, it’s not a company of artists, it’s a fucking soulless corporation who would rather let the artists who make those movies you love so much starve on the street than compensate them fairly.

You’re a selfish fucking asshole if you care more about your mid disney content then you do about the well-being of the people making it.

[typhlonectes]

[fake-destiel-news]

Thats the easiest AITA ever

(btw it might not be bob specifically, that’s just what the Reddit comments said but idk how they know)

Here’s a little response straight from the picket line

[massiveobservabletidalwave]

I guess the only question I have about James Somerton now is...what's up with all the Bob Iger lies? Why lie so much to improve the reputation of one capitalist? Any one have an interesting, verified as not plagiarized, well cited source on why? I'm also open to rampant speculation, as long as it's clearly marked as such.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was a Tumblr ad in my dream. My dream-self wasn’t there, but the characters in my dream were absolutely furious. The ad kept being like, “Bob Iger won’t support you. Donald Duck won’t support you. Buzz Lightyear won’t support you. Tumblr will. Donate today!” The characters in the dream were like, “Fuck off. I’ll donate once you stop flagging trans people’s posts.”

[aquitainequeen]

[animentality]

[odinsblog]

“One weird, silver lining positive from the WGA's strike has been a sense of calm over a reality that has plagued me with anxiety for years — the fact that despite having a great agent, manager, and lawyer, despite having been in hundreds of rooms with top execs and producers, despite having pitched countless networks, and despite having sold multiple pilots and pitches, I still work in food and bev. For so long, it felt like such an embarrassment in so many ways because it felt like I was the only one who was biding time in between sales with a side hustle. When I would tell people at work that I wrote television, they'd look at me like I had ten heads, or like I was delusional. They couldn't IMAGINE someone who *actually* wrote television would also be asking them what temp they wanted their salmon.

But the reality is, TV money goes fast, especially when it's just a pilot sale. And if shit doesn't get picked up to series, that money only lasts for so long. Being responsible meant swallowing my pride and keeping a job that was more consistent and steady but also gave me the ability to take pitch meetings, to write on my down time, do rewrites, answer e-mails, and take notes calls.

And for so long I thought I was a minority in that regard. Like I had done something wrong to not be successful enough to rely solely on my career as a writer.

Yet the strike has pushed SO many stories to the forefront of writers doing the exact same thing I've done, GOOD writers, great writers, writers who shit I watch all the time, whose names I instantly recognize, whose reputations in this industry precede them. So when the studios leaked that the goal was to bleed writers dry, to make it so we lost our homes, I had to laugh. Writers like me will literally do anything to keep the dream of writing alive. It's in us. It never goes away, no matter how many steaks you server, how many martinis you mix, how many cold calls you make, how many Uber passengers you pick up, how many pizzas you have to deliver. We always always always find a way to make it to that next great hope of a pitch, a sale, a green light.

And that's how you know that the CEOs are so fucking out of touch with reality. With the industry. With the POINT of the industry the point for most (not all, but most) has never been to be filthy rich, or own a yacht, or even have a membership to SoHo house. It's been to make something we love. To see it come to life, and make other people happy, or sad, or angry, or scared. To take this story you have kicking around your head and turn it into some epic journey. To be part of the process of making worlds and characters come to life. To tell stories.

The CEO's point has been to make as much money as humanly possible. And so they think that's all there is motivating writers. it's not. It never has been. Just because those CEO's wouldn't wait tables or mix drinks or drive a Lyft in order to keep a dream going, doesn't mean the rest of us wouldn't. The CEO's don't have a dream, they have a lifestyle. And I promise you a dream is a much better motivator than a yacht or a Porsche.

Try to bleed us dry, guys. Just because you'd let your own dream bleed to death, doesn't mean we would. We will always find a way to keep it alive.”

—Stefanie Williams, a tv writer on strike

[whencartoonsruletheworld]