#Media/Entertainment

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[anneapocalypse]

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

[khaled-red-blog]

The $385,000 Netflix Private Jet Flight Attendant: 'Where Can I Apply?'

wanted one Netflix Inc. nflx -3.23% flight attendant to work on the company’s private jet. Requested Salary: Up to $385,000. in a reduction time At many major tech companies, Netflix sent the internet buzzing this week with what some described as an unusual job offer. The streaming company wants a trained flight attendant to be in charge of the trips on its super-midsize jet, according to the…

[prokopetz]

You mentioned the baby Huey show when talking about the inexplicable "what was the audience for this?" cartoons of the 90's and why I don't disagree with that notion I do think there was some of that same energy in the 2000s as well, Baby Looney tunes and Loonatics unleashed anyone?

(With reference to this post here.)

I'm not sure I'd concur. Loonatics Unleashed was clearly a delayed reaction to the late 1990s fad for edgy reimaginings of classic media properties, and while the idea of doing that to the fucking Looney Tunes is misguided, there's no mystery about what target audience they were aiming for. As for Baby Looney Tunes, that's even more obvious – it was Warner Bros. trying to cash in on the then-lucrative cartoons-for-preschoolers market. It's hard to picture preschool entertainment being a big cash cow in 2024, but remember this was way back in 2002, before YouTube existed.

I need you to understand that you're DMing me out of the blue about a post from 2015 with – at the time of this posting – a whole 75 notes, and if I wasn't the sort of genetic freak who can remember off the top of his head every social media post he's ever made, this would be an utterly incomprehensible thing to say.

[gildedoak]

A small side dose of Sins! This would take place right after RadioApple Week Day 3 “Deal.”

I’m gonna need to make a master post at this rate. I’ve got at least ten more “episodes,” five of which are drafted, and one is four pages - not panels, PAGES - long!

I love reading all your comments and tags - thank you all so much for your support of this silly comic series! ❤️

LEMON BARS Mini Comic Part 1 "Deal" Part 3 "The Succubi Sequel"

SOUTHERN COMFORT FOOD MASTERLIST

[an-established-butt-dent]

The Veil is thin tonight-

-Can you feel it on your skin?

Tingling?

Ink and fineliner on paper

Available as Print

[nybyru]

[florallychaotic]

I do enjoy how most of Remedy's advertising is normal and then every once in a while you get stuff like this

[kenyatta]

‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (NYT)

There have long been figures behind the scenes shaping public opinion about celebrities — through gossip columns, tabloids and strategic interviews. The documents show an additional playbook for waging a largely undetectable smear campaign in the digital era. While the film, about domestic violence, was a box office hit — making nearly $350 million worldwide — online criticism of the actress skyrocketed. “He wants to feel like she can be buried,” a publicist working with the studio and Mr. Baldoni wrote in an Aug. 2 message to the crisis management expert, Melissa Nathan. “You know we can bury anyone,” Ms. Nathan wrote. In the following weeks, Ms. Nathan, whose clients have included Johnny Depp and the rappers Drake and Travis Scott, went hard at the press, pushing to prevent stories about Mr. Baldoni’s behavior and reinforce negative ones about Ms. Lively, the text messages show. Jed Wallace, a self-described “hired gun,” led a digital strategy that included boosting social media posts that could help their cause. [...] Three days later, Mr. Baldoni texted Ms. Abel, flagging a social media thread that accused another celebrity of bullying behavior and had generated 19 million views. “This is what we would need,” he wrote. Ms. Nathan soon floated proposals to hire contractors to dominate social media through “full social account take downs,” by starting “threads of theories” and generally working to “change narrative.” “All of this will be most importantly untraceable,” she wrote. [...] It is unclear exactly how Mr. Wallace operated. There are references in emails to “social manipulation” and “proactive fan posting,” and text messages cite efforts to “boost” and “amplify” online content that was favorable to Mr. Baldoni or critical of Ms. Lively. “We are crushing it on Reddit,” Mr. Wallace told Ms. Nathan, according to a text she sent Ms. Abel on Aug. 9. The next day, one of Ms. Nathan’s employees texted, “We’ve started to see shift on social, due largely to Jed and his team’s efforts to shift the narrative.” Ms. Nathan wrote to Ms. Abel: “And socials are really really ramping up. In his favour, she must be furious. It’s actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.” When a TikTok sleuth started asking questions about Mr. Baldoni, Ms. Abel texted that “this girl is on a very dangerous crusade.”

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Colin Farrell

[foxdemonkurama]

The Dark Place -- The Art of Alice Wake

Now, when the monster comes, I turn it into art. My nightmares caught on film. And this is the focus of my new exhibition. To show people the world is so much darker than they ever knew. I'm calling this exhibit "The Dark Place."

[tojisun]

that chupi chupi chapa chapa trend on tiktok/insta is SO bimbo!reader and simon sorry i dont make the rules 🎀🩷

kadhofds the chupi chupi chapa chapa trend poppin up on my fyp is ghost (band) related so i had to search up this one and whyre there so many different versions of the dance?? either way, thats adorable!!

though simon doesnt dance with you, he is still in the shot when you do film – he may just be standing there but his gait is loose in happiness as he watches you with sappy eyes <33

so while you're bouncing along the beat, simon, with his deliciously thick arms crossed over his chest, just watches on. he's not even looking at the camera, easily dismissing your (thousands of) followers because all he is focused on is you.

some of your (and simons) favourite comments:

litolsunshine: god, me when? mE WHEN?

wolfwoodscocknballs: the seggsual tension between me and the highway

officialduolingo: @kumonofficial me and you 🥺🩷

thefishchips: ok but who can blame him for looking at her like THAT??? i would be drooling myself too if my gf is serving that much

soapmac: PLEASE EVEN WHEN HE'S FINALLY WITH HER HE STILL LOOKS SO WHIPPED @gazkyg @user110943079

gazkyg > soapmac: how did he manage to look even more whipped now that he's with her LMFAO??

[badnewswhatsleft]

(x) actually fuck it he's so cute i'm posting the vid here

[realjdobypr]

Editor and SEO Researcher Dr. Jerry Doby Releases Book for Digital Journalists and Newsrooms

Excited to have released my first book...would love to know your thoughts! SEO Essentials: A Journalist's Handbook is as up to date as it gets!

For his first published book ever, editor and published SEO researcher Dr. Jerry Doby just released SEO Essentials for Online Magazines: A Journalist’s Handbook on MagCloud. This book is based on his published research paper SEO-optimized Writing: Removing the Mystery, featured in the Cognitionis Scientific Journal (2023) and sponsored by Logos University International (UNILOGOS).SEO Essentials…