Hollywood is Dying (Thank God)

I would not get overly confident at this point.  Everything you accuse them of doing is absolutely true.  And they have been doing it for decades and they have very successfully slowly poisoned society.

They aren’t making flops so to speak.  They are intentionally making propaganda pieces (that started in 2010).  I fully believe they know they will be financial failures but then that’s not really the point.  This is why they put out an actual blockbuster now and then.  It’s not that it slips by it’s that they allow it so it makes tons of cash to cover some of the losses.

But at the end of the day (I do not know for sure) but I would bet “Hollywood” makes more through licensing of all the decades of already made content than they do current projects.  I mean essentially it’s 1 huge clearing house or licensing hub for previous work.

Yes, they have stumbled a little but they have by no means fallen. It won’t be allowed to financially collapse. It’s too important as a propaganda device.

Now while I mention not getting over confident, one should not despair either.  A culture (not political) shift has begun and I think it has some legs.  We just need to keep pushing so it ends up being a full on culture AND political shift.  The pendulum needs to swing back at least to some degree.

“The sheer fact that they’ve been poisoning their entire industry makes zero sense”

Makes perfect sense and you answered yourself why.

“Three, They’ve been ruining their movies and TV shows deliberately, sure, but for their agendas.”

“Lastly, you said it yourself “they stumbled” which shows they don’t know what they’re doing”

They have “stumbled” financially. Their new content sales are lower significantly than they have been I would surmise. I would not confuse this with not knowing what they are doing.  They know EXACTLY what they are doing.  They know they are going to bleed some cash but my point there is overall it’s not as bad as it appears because their new content sales are probably just some portion of their intake and not all of it. So they appear far more “wounded” then they are.

What you are not mentioning at this point is these people are not stupid.  But, they ARE overconfident ideologs. So they are willing to sacrifice some for “the message”.  Probably up until the point the folks pulling the strings feel any financial discomfort overall. But being overconfident they will overplay their hand to some degree eventually.  Although I think that’s already happened because as you mention, others are making parallel businesses.  This means the culture is shifting.  And it’s doing that in spite of all attempts to stop it.  Wait until that goes on unabated, it could grow like wildfire.

The thing is “the market” abhors a vacuum. And they have been making complete garbage for so long now people are and have been ready for something else.  That would have already happened but such things do take time and they (in my opinion) have been artificially suppressed in a number of ways.

But things are looking up.  I hope that trend continues.  The “right” does not have to win, the tyrannical left simply needs to lose.

“Yeah I’m going to have to disagree with you on that they’re as intelligent as you say they are”

I did not claim they were intelligent or even smart.  I simply said they were not stupid and they knew exactly what they were choosing to do.  They know how to make money off new content/productions and gobs of it. They are currently just prioritizing propaganda over entertainment because they are ideologs who frankly probably assume they are far more intelligent then they actually are.

“I know what you’re saying, but if they were smarter they wouldn’t have run all their streaming services into the ground which Netflix, Hulu, Disney, HBO Max, and even most TV subscriptions have seen record plummeting.”

Well that’s an entirely different story and has probably almost nothing to do with Hollywood itself.  As I see it that whole mess is based on studio greed and a business miscalculation.

When there was just Netflix everyone was happy to put their content there and get paid something by Netflix for it. I assume in the beginning it was basically free money for everyone because content you had sitting on the shelf and getting no play was now all of a sudden making cash for you on Netflix.  And initially Netflix more or less pioneered streaming on an international scale.  So it was working out for everyone I take it.

But after several years or more, the technology to do what Netflix does I surmise became more readily available and probably much cheaper to implement.  So the actual content makers had the bright idea to cut out the middleman as they could throw some cash at building their own streaming platform or farm it out to someone who could. And of course by this time Netflix was still king but others had entered the market creating competition for licensing which I figure only made the decision to make your own platform seem more appealing.

But they all miscalculated and whether you were a streaming platform (like Netflix) trying to also be a content maker or an actual content maker trying to also be a streaming platform, they ended up with the exact same problem.  Not enough quality content to keep people subscribed in the long term.

Netflix has about BlockBustered themselves which is super ironic.  They had to see this coming but seemed to wait too long and began making content at a breakneck pace as their entire catalog evaporated.  They just could not churn out enough of anything good to keep people.  Even now their top viewed stuff as I can see is rarely what they make.

The content makers who can more readily make quality media are in the same boat they just don’t have enough AND they are now having to weigh that against paying metric tons of cash to maintain and build-out their platforms while struggling to make that tech work even just decent.  That’s why their apps always suck initially and only get OK later on.  It takes time to make something  optimized and efficient.  This is why YouTube is technically far superior to Rumble.  They have been doing that much longer and have a huge head start.

Sorry to drone on but that is actually a topic I am into that I speak frequently about.

The most interesting thing about it is I believe in a couple years or less  it will begin to collapse back down to just streaming platforms hosting content.  Otherwise everyone just ends up suffering from the same problem.  The only company not suffering from this issue is Amazon because they went a different route.  Instead of just making content (which they suck at as well) they made a marketplace.  Through Prime you can view their current catalog but you can buy dang near anything else or cobble other channels on top of Prime.  It would not shock  me if Netflix falls by the wayside and the content makers put their stuff back but on Amazon.  It would end up being significantly more content than even what Netflix had in it’s heyday.  Add that to the ability to pay $3 to rent anything you want and it’s one service to rule them all.

Good, glad I can provide something of use.

I think I agree with everything you mentioned there minus maybe 1 thing but see mentions below.

“They run a much bigger and better operation that doesn’t rely on them solely streaming”

Yes, this is 100% true.  But on top of even that they innovated the streaming platform by offering a marketplace that offers dang near anything.  No others have done this so all things tolled, this is why they are ahead and I doubt their streaming business is hurting.  An honorable mention there is also how Prime’s subscription works.  You get the streaming as Part of prime but it’s not solely just streaming. This is a big deal because everyone else is trying to keep subscribers by cranking out content, Amazon does not need to do that.  As mentioned above.  I think Amazon will probably win the streaming wars and most content will collapse back on them.

“I honestly just don’t see Hollywood making any comebacks big enough to have a place in normal society and whether or not that market vacuum happens within the next decade, it’s going to happen because people know what they don’t enjoy and what to stay away from far better than they do now.”

In general I believe you are correct.  Hollywood has intentionally harmed themselves financially but also 100% destroyed their credibility.  The golden age of Hollywood is long over, but this “bronze age” has now closed with a woke bang.  They won’t disappear but they won’t come back to full strength either.

“And again, if they weren’t stupid, they wouldn’t have wasted money in the first place.”

One can be intelligent and an ideolog at the same time.  These 2 things are not mutually exclusive.  They simply chose ideology over profit. On the surface, it’s their business, they can do that if they chose to and I support their right to do so.  They have the right to cash out every penny they have, put it in a huge pile and light it on fire and dance around it naked hooping and hollering.  And philosophically (if not almost literally), this is what they have done.

“We just have to make sure we can educate enough Americans before our generation passes.”

Well said, that’s the long and the short of it. If the very spirit and idea of America does not get passed on it dies here. But, this is not new, it was always the case.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” –Ronald Reagan