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It'll be interesting to see if the daily wire's supposed new entertainment channel does well; there's probably demand for it but you have to produce good content.
And I think that's as big a rub as "we hate our audience"- it's possible to make a good, woke story, sure, but there's no set, easy formula so most attempts to do it fail. Rescue-the-princess is a moneymaker because millennia of cultural evolution have figured out how to make it into a good, exciting story, but making a woke version of these standard formulae is pretty much impossible. So they make woke subversions thereof, which end up being terrible stories.
But wait, it gets worse! Creative types don't like to be told what to do, and they don't like being reminded that their job is to make money for the big boss man. Normally the answer is "suck it up buttercup, do you want your paycheck or not?". But I've noticed a pattern with woke organizations; exerting any kind of authority in even the most anodyne and obviously justified contexts(do your damn job, not some kind of side project) is taboo and absolutely horrendous. I'm reminded of Scott's summary of reactionary philosophy, the part where he discusses the hypothetical of getting kidnapped by terrorists, and he can choose whether to be rescued by Mormons or Unitarians. Heck, I think Mormons are obviously a cult believing ludicrous things on the basis of falsified evidence and the choice is obvious to me. Red tribers/conservatives for their faults can actually put their foot down and say "do your job I don't care how it makes you feel". Regular normie democrats seem to be able to say "uh, this is your job". Wokes seem unable to do this.
Now obviously publishing a softcore porn magazine with ugly women was a terrible idea. But absent a willingness to stick to the script(because using only attractive women in pornography is
bla bla unrealistic beauty standardsfatphobic even if there are obvious reasons for it) someone has to answer "who are you to tell me what to put in the magazine?" with "your boss", and I'm just wondering why no one was? Like obviously the eleventy gazillion highers up who had to approve this weren't all drunk on the kool-aid and most of them knew this wasn't a good idea even if they weren't predicting going broke. My best guess is that, since this problem just keeps happening, like communism and famine, that its got to be some sort of inherent feature of ultra-progressive politics.More options
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