"woke Hollywood is starting to eat itself, and it's glorious"

Gary from Nerdrotic has little to no sympathy for the writers and actors on strike. I, on the other hand, do feel some compassion, mainly for the not-so-well-known creatives who are feeling the pinch as a result of these strikes by the writers' and actors' guilds. Making it on talent, being at the creative edge of culture—well, that can entail a lot of bullshit on multiple levels, but for the truly talented, determined, and passionate people who stick it out and fight their way to success, well, their art pays dividends, and not just to them: we all benefit from such people. So I don't feel much sympathy for the already-rich-off-their-ass writers and actors who probably aren't feeling much of a pinch right now, but I do feel for the ones who are lower on the totem pole. And I think this may be a good time for people to learn the lesson that wokeness doesn't sell, and if you want to make any sort of profit in the world of creatives, then you need to drop the wokeness and get back to telling good old-fashioned stories. 

Now, a leftist will interpret what I just wrote as meaning that I don't want to see any shows or movies about LGBTQs or racial minorities or whatever. That's deliberately misunderstanding my point. I honestly couldn't care one way or the other about any of the demographics in question: they can all be awesome, or they can be shitty. The flamboyantly gay Nathan Lane was a fantastic co-lead in "The Birdcage," and I'd follow Sir Ian McKellen, another famously gay actor, to the ends of the earth. Wesley Snipes was iconic as Blade in the Blade trilogy, and even if he's an asshole in real life, his superhero movies rock. Morgan Freeman rules just about everything he touches. I think I'm in love with Alfre Woodard, whose character Lily is one of the best things about "Star Trek: First Contact." Angela Bassett makes a statement in almost every role she plays. Strong female leads? How about Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise? How about Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise? More recently, how about Rosa Salazar in "Alita: Battle Angel"? Of course we guys like girl bosses when they're done right! I don't have a problem with any of these supposedly marginalized or oppressed demographics (that, in truth, are neither marginalized nor oppressed). Why? Because they were involved in the making of good stories. Get it through your thick head, Hollywood: the royal road to getting your viewership back is to stop pushing the woke bullshit and start making real shows and movies again.

Or keep pursuing your stupid agenda, thinking the majority of people will finally come around and appreciate you. They won't. That's how you end up with turds like "Rings of Power," "The Witcher," "Cowboy Bebop," the rebooted "Charlie's Angels," "The Woman King," countless uncreative Disney remakes, and "modern" Disney Marvel/Star Wars spinoff series, etc. With so much genius, laugh-out-loud, user-created content on YouTube, Rumble, etc., why would I ever go back to watching the dross put out by studios-gone-woke? George Lucas's prophecy has come true: entertainment has been democratized; the people amuse themselves now. And all these striking actors and writers? Sorry to say it, but nobody misses them. Nobody even cares. So get over yourselves. And get it fucking right.