Hey Corbin, your reply doesn't really address my comment.
As a person employed in this industry for 40 years and having recently taken place in negotiations regarding this and other issues, I can tell you we have a revenue problem.
Yes, the evil corps and their henchman are healthy as the money pushes more and more to the top.
Our pensions are in jeopardy as well as our health benefits. There is almost no secondary market, there are less adds generating revenue. Almost nobody buys hard copies of media anymore, we have theaters shutting down.
I think you know that the loss of revenue due to illegal streaming has an effect, it affects the crews and little people first as our pension is highly impacted by the loss of revenue due to theft.
I agree that covid was part to blame for the greedy opportunists and gouging of the consumer base.
Socialism for the rich and elite and late-stage capitalism for the rest of us but that is a bit of a somewhat different problem.
I don't know what specific industry you are referring to (whether it be advertisements or in television/movie production) but both of these are part of the problem. But from an outsider looking in here is your problem.
Why do people perform illegal streaming like myself for the last 18 years? Why?
#1. Greed
Netflix is a perfect example. Constant Price hikes constantly with no real difference in amount of content or quality.
Netflix CEO makes 49.8 million a year which is a little lower from last year because he took more in stock options.
This isn’t even including any of the other Sr. Members of the company. What are they paying the ones one the bottom end while taking all the benefits? That’s only 1 company.
Making people all get their individual accounts instead of sharing (even when you pay for other devices) because loss of revenue from making and promoting shit content and trying to make up for it without fixing the problem is also another reason to note here.
#2 Taking existing played out story lines and remaking with someone else of a different gender or skin color with a extremely shit story line does not bode well for someone wanting to pay money to watch and then blaming discrimination because nobody watches it.
#3 Complaining that there isn’t enough money because of illegal streaming is just like this meme
You just have to stop the BS and many people who canceled would probably come back. But still simply stopping all that isn’t an option just like standing up isn’t an option in this meme.
#4 Parroting CEO’s and the entertainments business upper echelons empty narrative is not the way to go if you want change, especially in pay and benefits. If you are part of the script and writers they need to stop with the Woke shit. Go woke, Go Broke. Proof? We are having this conversation.
#5 DEI has killed your industry more than illegal streaming. The time any of this became an issue is when the DEI people started pushing a narrative in every story, recasting 12% of the population in 80% of commercials now, in movies that are inaccurate, just like if a movie was cast as some European playing Mansa Musa that would be ridiculous and a shame. The same of all this DEI your industry pushes and refuses to realize and accept a huge part of your audience realizes the hypocrisy of it all and you’ve lost a ton of revenue over it, but illegal streaming is to blame.
I’m thrilled to illegally stream everything now. I won’t give a cent to any of those fuckers to support their out of touch lifestyle and the moronic BS they push that has the veil that it’s helpful but hurts those it’s supposedly for than it helps.
I’m sorry I respect you as a Rams fan but this is what you guys in your industry have to realize if you actually want change.
