nerianasims:

Studios Are Terrified That the Strikes Will Reveal the Truth About Streaming

We are now part of the Summer of Strike. After failed negotiations with the studios and corporations who run the entertainment industry, bot

Pajiba

“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”

laviejaguardia:

The illusion of choice and all that

@staff this is truly a basis for me to never open tumblr desktop again so if that was you guy’s aim congrats, you nailed it!!!! Now if you wanted to keep “what makes Tumblr unique” you have never failed better

im not seeing what you guys are seeing…

still nice and normal over here in the EU

beriliaa:

modmad:

tf2heritageposts:

tf2heritageposts:

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here’s how!

• click this link and go to the support page, then click “contact support”
• click on the category list and click on feedback

• now you need to tell staff WHY putting in an algorithm will cause the site to fucking die, and be sure to be detailed and not a dick in it. theyre not gonna listen to feedback calling them assholes
• viola, if @staff listens, we’ll be fine

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

here it is again because uh. seems relevant.

oniteeth10:

Just uploaded the edited stream up to my new youtube channel dedicated to archiving all my streams for people who missed out but still wanted to see it!

the-real-numbers:

the-real-numbers:

they should invent “being wrong” for women

teaboot:

If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:

Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say “yes”, the second will say “no.”

If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.

But what if people question you from there? “Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?” For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: “I don’t have a card for that.”

“What the fuck,” they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: “I have laryngitis. I’ve lost speech. My throat hurts”. Whatever you expect to occur.

The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. YThey wonder about logistics. “How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?”

As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.

“I have powerful wizard magics.”

Gets them every time

Just uploaded the edited stream up to my new youtube channel dedicated to archiving all my streams for people who missed out but still wanted to see it!

kosmogrl:

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elfwreck:

pint-o-beans:

found this informative, about how studios are going to attempt to use influencers (particularly small ones) to try to cross pickets by paying a lot for movie promos, and that SAG-AFTRA likely will not let you in if you do this. my suspicion is they’re hoping people won’t understand the implications so wanted to spread the word!!

Very important note here, yes.

PROMOTION is part of an actor’s job. And it’s one of the things they’re not allowed to do on strike.

SAG Actors are not allowed to do promotions at ComicCon this year. They can attend, as long as they don’t:

• Participate in specific-show promotions (e.g. “five years later - actors of X series”)
• Talk about their current work
• Talk about upcoming work

They are encouraged not to attend at all, in part because those are complex issues and it’s easy to trip on them.

TikTok and YouTube INFLUENCERS are likely to be contacted by studios and told, “how would you like to make a LOT of money, talking about this show?”

…Do not take the poisoned bait.

That counts as crossing the picket line, and would result in:

• Being banned from SAG-AFTRA membership for life, and
• Possibly being blocked from other union jobs if they find out that you scabbed during a strike.

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BTW for anyone too lazy to do the math a wage of $125 a day works out to about $15/hour for an 8-hour workday so….. someone in 1923 definitely had a vision of the future

manfrommars2049:

Hot take that needs to be said via antiwork