10/6/2023 0 Comments Silicon valley actor dies today![]() Netflix made waves for sure with original content, but if you look at in another light, it was just an extension of what HBO and other cable networks had already started doing.Īnd Hollywood initially was much more concerned with Youtube and piracy than Netflix, see the introduction of Hulu as a free ad-supported broadcast-network-based "TV from last night" alternative to piracy. By the time those companies were making waves the Hollywood trends were already in motion. The interplay between SV in the form of Netflix and Hollywood in the last 15 years of streaming wars is interesting but the author loses the plot a bit in trying to connect to Uber, WeWork, etc. If you think these guys aren't assholes to the core, look at this: Universal Studios vandalized taxpayer-owned trees to DENY PICKETERS SHADE. and the studio/network trash are trying to render them homeless. So now we have people who don't even get benefits, and scrape by on multiple jobs, finally demanding fair pay a decade later. That's when the same C-suite trash finagled them out of their royalties by whining that streaming was "new media," when everyone the least bit savvy knew that it was NOT "new media" but in fact the new NORMAL. What few articles point out is that these companies have been riding the gravy train for years on the backs of writers and actors, whose union agreed to an absurd and abusive contract LAST time. but it's still asshole CEOs across the board. Not sure who "Hollywood" is in your statement, but "Hollywood" is mostly the studio scumbags who are trying to make actors and writers obsolete so yes they're trying to harness Silicon Valley technology to do it. It's either back catalogue shows like Community (#sixseasonsandamovie) or much cheaper produced European or Canadian shows like Kim's Convenience, Schitt's Creek, Downton Abbey, Peaky Blinder, Outlander, etc. ![]() Imo, a similar shift also happened in OTT content in the US. In the early 2000s, JDramas became expensive when production houses like Sony started upping their pricing, which lead networks across Asia to start selecting cheaper dramas, which back then was Korean.Ī similar shift is starting to happen again with the rising popularity of Chinese and Thai dramas (at least in ASEAN) which I feel is largely due to how their rights are now significantly cheaper than KDramas. Netflix for example doesn't give residuals but is able to pay the entire production team way more than what Korean studios like Lotte, Myung, etc are able to with residuals.Ī similar story happened with the rise of KDramas btw. The economics of Kdramas (which is what Squid Games is) are different from that of American productions. > their own show creators having zero royalties - look at the squid game financials I largely agree with you but imo this is a bad example They definitely want to do that with AI, but they have been doing that here in reality with streaming. Historically, executives and management use a disorienting new technology to try to justify lowering wages of their workers, and they have done so since the days of the Industrial Revolution. It’s been noted, and correctly so, that entertainment industry labor disputes often erupt when there’s a change in technology - from theaters screening projected films to the cathode ray tube of the home television, say, or the rise of YouTube and other online content in the 2000s - and that happens for a reason. This is the most important paragraph in the article: I have a vaguely insider-ish perspective on this, and I would really urge you to consider the fact that Hollywood's extremely visible, but also quite opaque. I basically endorse its reasoning top to bottom.Ī little context on that endorsement: I built a decent chunk of Hulu when it launched, and I've worked for an actor whose name you'd all recognize. In fact the article's way better than I expected when I clicked the link. this is correct, in my opinion, because the role of ML in this is kind of an attention-getting red herring. The analysis in the original LA Times article is all about streaming, and barely touches on "AI" (ML). but a strike was already on the horizon before that happened. the WGA was talking about a strike, then the AMPTP made it clear that they wanted to reserve the right to replace people with AI, and that escalated things quite a lot. Hollywood the actors and writers are on strike because Hollywood, the money making machinery decided to replace them with a product from SV.
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