#wga sag strike

[respectissexy]

[theemmtropy]

Amazing that everyone's forgotten the collective wait for Sherlock season 3. Oh we're gonna have to wait for new content bc of the strikes?? Gee, I'm sure fandoms have never had to do that before...... 🙄🤡

[lovepollution]

Luke Kirby joins members of the AFL-CIO, WGA and SAG-AFTRA on the picket line outside HBO and Amazon in New York City - 22nd August 2023

[serious-goose]

fran drescher being a union leader and calling for equal pay is so fran fine of her 💕

[positively--speculative]

Remember how I likened media made to he consumed once and not enjoyed several times (like many of the recent MCU movies and shows) to junk food and that everyone who refuses to demand more and hates any form of media analysis are like people who would demand everyone else should eat junk food because *they* like junk food?

Everyone hating on the writers and actors striking are those people.

The quality of media has been taking a nose dive for the past several years, but these people don't care because they are more loyal to the big studio names than the writers and actors who work hard to bring these stories to life. So much so, they've become defensive of any criticism. Disney must win. WB must win. They must be on the winning side. The execs have been forcing these people to work long hours for shit pay and unreasonable deadlines. These people cannot work at their full potential because of it, but brand loyalists don't care because they don't want to demand more. They don't want to be challenged. Media was never supposed to be mentally enriching or stimulating to them. It's all supposed to be "turn-your-brain-off" entertainment because everything else makes them uncomfortable--so, they really don't care about the conditions that's made a lot of media decrease in quality, because that's how *they* like it and they're mad that writers and actors don't want to be put in the worst conditions to create shit when they could be working in better conditions to create something meaningful.

[arc-angel-o]

Why are people still trying to put writers and actors against each other while our unions are striking side by side 🙄

Saying writers have it worse is not helpful. Perpetuating this idea that actors don't contribute anything is not helpful.

[ineffably-ryuu]

All hail Tree Law.

[sumontienne]

“this is a safe space where we dont talk about politics” no. coward. you are a coward.

fostering healthy communities requires you to talk about shit you’re uncomfortable with. whether you like it or not, everything in your life is political, and you have to talk about it. living in fantasy worlds where politics are off limits is unhealthy actually.

hot take: maybe this kosa shit is good bc it’ll push ppl out of their comfort zones. that way we can finally have some definitive action in this country.

[i-am-depraved-linda]

It's pretty messed up that like...after years of having the "starving artists" trope and variations ingrained in society....arts being who can't sell their work, wannabe writers just sitting in cafes, actors who are never gonna "make it"....Like how common and understood are these ideas? As a narrative point or butt of a joke?

The sort of thing people work hard to fight against and prove wrong, that it is possible (but it's also incredibly fuckin difficult)

But now with the strikes suddenly it's: "Oh but writers and actors make so much tho" possibly coming from the same people who acknowledge and joke about said starving artist trope.

Just admit you want the labor but don't actually care about laborers especially for things you expect to be made available to you to casually consume.

[were-wolverine]

i feel like the wga and sag-aftra strike delaying show/movie production won’t really hinder many of us considering a majority of the ppl on here just rewatch shows/movies and haven’t started something new in years (ergo we can all support them without being bitter about it)

that being said, if it does affect you, don’t be a dick about it. these people literally just want to be paid enough to have a stable income

[realifezompire]

Them: if you support the writer's strike, your fave TV shows will get canceled!!

Me: my favorite TV shows have already been canceled 😘

[voidingintotheshout]

No longer Scab Barrymore.

(She was about to break solidarity with the WGA and screen actors Guild strike and do her show improvisationally because she felt like it was a news show, and everyone hated her for it because her show is about as much news as watch what happens live. After a lot of backlash, she backed off and apologized.) 

[faircatch]

When AMPTP finally concede...

So, here is my take and I'm going to have to wait and see how it plays out, but I feel pretty confident about it:

AMPTP will have to concede to SAG-AFTRA / WGA at some point.

Watch all the streaming services raise their rates.

The streaming services will claim it is because of the demands they had to meet for SAG-AFTRA / WGA and that they need money to pay the actors and writers... and that the cost will have to fall to the consumers.

This is of course BS. They have the money now... but they will flip this making it sound like the actors and writers are greedy and the poor poor streaming services etc have no choice but to make the consumers pay more to cover themselves.

I would love to be wrong... but... I doubt it.

[jason-please-see-a-psychiatrist]

hold on does the good omens s2 release go against the strike rules? it feels like it should

[cuchillx]

[cglenwilliams]

Hey, remember what we were all saying about VFX artists needing to unionize?

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