#Consumer products company

[tiktaalic]

If I ran for office all I would do is read off upton Sinclair quotes from the jungle from 100 years ago side by side with boarshead factory inspection reports 

[gonetodash19]

Thank you to all the wonderful corporations supporting Pride Month!

Remember: evil doesn’t discriminate

[walkingbomb]

so what's your take on the bioware layoffs/ dragon age game situation? (asking cause u briefly mentioned in tags on that post)

oof that's a big question, anon.

to put it simply, I don't think there is one singular answer- Bioware/EA treated staff like shit, the very same staff that made this game possible- that is not up for debate.

does that mean the game should be boycotted? I can only assume that some people will believe that, many others won't because honestly trying to dodge products that have come from ethically/morally dubious sources in today's society is almost impossible.

there's also the fact that those same staff members and those that remain put so much time and effort into the game either way- is it the right thing to ignore the game completely, if that's the case?

it's not ideal, no. in my own selfish way I desperately want the game to be good, to experience the thrill of a new game and the fandom madness that goes with it. it most likely won't be a perfect game (is any game?) and we have to look at how the layoffs and treatment of staff may have impacted that.

but... i choose to remain hopeful, i guess. maybe its just the nostalgia goggles. i don't believe there's a clear cut answer- it's for each person to decide for themselves, it's too nuanced.

[itstimetodrew]

Advertising has always been about telling people what they want and why they need it, but it’s impressive how far companies will go now. An increasing hostility towards their target market, reshaping platforms to be less user-friendly and less informative, every day a new hoop to jump through and a new pitfall to avoid.

There’s bending over backwards and then there’s breaking your own spine.

[roseband]

people have /now/ been googling "trump tariffs" and "tariffs" in mass after voting for them BRUH??????????????

WHAT THE FUCK?

we literally do not have the manufacturing capacity domestic for the sheer amount of consumerism these freaks want and they're seeing it /now/ what the everloving fuck? yes your prices are going up, you?

im getting a tax break, and consumer goods will go up to cover it, and it's a net 0 tax raise according to every economist for my income bracket, but the bottom 75% that voted for him...... whelp?

[zikadraws]

I couldn't exactly get what I wanted for Halloween done, sooo you're getting some OC stuff.

Her name is Salomé, and she's been 11 for twelve thousand years.

Happy Halloween.

[nexus-nebulae]

ok but genuinely why is Literally Everyone I Know just perfectly okay with the complete degradation of quality of like basically EVERY product you can find anywhere like i literally cannot find a bookshelf at all currently because they're literally not made well enough to hold ACTUAL BOOKS

[monocotyledons]

people on stan twitter are seriously arguing that the reason why txt hasn't gotten a break is bc moas don't stream / vote enough for them to meet their goals so they have to keep working, as if rest is something you earn after hitting a career milestone and not, yknow, a basic right that someone should get regardless of how much success they see

[arcadekitten]

How do you feel about people making small changes to your characters (like headcanons or interpretations of them?) is it preferred that people don’t or do you encourage it?

Honestly this really just boils down to intention.

If you headcanon a character as a certain thing for fun, and/or because you are/have that thing and want to see it on a character you relate to, and/or because it makes you happy to see, that's fine!

But if you headcanon something or attempt to even rewrite parts of the character in a certain way because you think it makes the character "better" or that you can do it "better", I find that to be disrespectful.

(I also ask that you don't change something that is canon about a character's identity, like changing an established orientation or removing a disability, etc.)

Same thing could be said for redesigning my characters! If you want to do a character "redesign" because you just wanna do it for fun or to see how you might've designed a certain character, that's all well and good! But if you're doing a redesign because you think you could "improve" my character's designs and make them "better" I, again, find that to be disrespectful and I don't appreciate it.

[girl4music]

I thoroughly believe that the main 2 issues plaguing the TV art/entertainment industry today are representation anxiety and cancellation anxiety.

Representation anxiety is the reason why the quality of the storytelling is suffering.

Cancellation anxiety is the reason why the quality of the production is suffering.

ANXIETY is what is ruining TV show storytelling and producing in general. If people were less anxious about the way the story in a show should or has to go, there would be more focus on what actually matters.

There are so many storytelling and production issues in a show because people are not focussing on the overall experience when creating/watching a TV show. Showrunners/creators are not focussing on it because they’re too anxious about providing the “correct” or “best” or “most palatable” representation because if they don’t provide it, their show will just get cancelled.

Honestly imagine the extreme anxiety a showrunner/creator would feel in this day and age of showmaking.

It is a never-ending loop for them of “I must provide the representation that appeases both the audience and the network alike” and then “if I don’t do this as soon as possible, my show will be cancelled and everybody that depends on me will lose their jobs”.

Show disappoints the network, gets cancelled - which in turn disappoints the audience, stops them from watching anything else like it in case it happens to them again - which then makes the network misjudge it as “this kind of content must not be engaging enough for consumers to invest themselves in” but they throw it out for consumption anyway because quantity over quality even though they’re ultimately going to axe it regardless because “it doesn’t sell.”

And then the whole thing happens all over again. 😩

Sounds to me like they should just have better communication with the showrunners/creators and more faith and trust in what they’re able to deliver.

And maybe once in a while CONSULT THE AUDIENCE themselves. Make them apart of the conversation more than with just the standard lazy feedback questionnaires. I’m pretty fucking sure were a BIG WIG network executive to actually take the time out of their oh so busy work week to talk to us about what it is we want and what we don’t - things would be better for all sides. For the networks, the showrunners/creators+team, and for the customers/consumers.

At the end of the day the people I really feel sorry for regarding this is not us. It’s the showrunners/creators.

I feel so sorry for the producers, writers and directors because I know they’re all running rings around themselves trying to please every fucking body and every complaint from either side goes right to them.

They’re the mimimim wage staff at your favourite restaurant where customers and employers alike yell at them over something they’re personally pissed about but they can’t do anything about it other than offer their sympathies and provide other alternatives.

You think we have it rough as the viewers.

The network thinks they have it rough.

No.

Who has it rough are the showrunners/creators.

[wachi-delectrico]

we shouldn't have let the internet have the phrase "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism"

[girleulogy]

Reading about big pharma again and the way that companies use the idea of a chemical imbalance in order to drug push is really interesting because I think a lot of that comes to not just from misinformation but people wanting to purposely humanize a corporation and concepts (lifestyles) the same way they uwuify like, politicians

[lapeaudelamemoire]

Ugh. I know hanfu is like. Not a religious thing and Chinese culture is very much not a closed culture but also I still don't like seeing white people in hanfu soz. Like I'm not gonna ban them from it but I don't personally like it. I just feel like they should have a 'not allowed to touch other cultures' slap on the wrist period or something at least given all the cultural appropriation. They can wear the hanfu after they've fucking addressed sinophobia or whatever and stop being cunts.

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

i am nothing if not a girl who knows a weird amount about engineering

[irate-iguana]

I finally found the programme for the first production of Richard II I saw! The thing that got me into the play! That theatre company has so much to answer for.

[fearsomeandwretched]

my sense of scale for how much clothes should cost tho is completely off bc i spent my entire childhood only ever thrifting for clothes. like i walk into target and walmart and think the clothes are too highly priced