I've just canceled my Daily Wire subscription, which I've had for nearly a year, and which I haven't even used. I'll try to do a movie marathon before the end of the current subscription on December 2 (renewal was supposed to happen on December 3), after which I might write a massive "overview review" of all the Daily Wire films I managed to watch before the end. It just wasn't worth it to subscribe. I'm not that much of a brainwashed dittohead—or a joiner, for that matter (which is the essential hypocrisy of being an introvert who dislikes subscribing to things while using Substack, a subscription-based community)—to have found DW all that useful. I'm not really all that excited about slogans like "join the cause" or "join the fight." If I can do this movie-watching marathon, though, expect a single review to appear, composed of many mini-reviews of the following DW films:
"Am I Racist?" (starring Matt Walsh)
"What is a Woman?" (starring Matt Walsh)
"Nefarious" (demonic possession—probably the preachiest of the bunch)
"Lady Ballers" (also preachy, I'm sure)
"Terror on the Prairie" (Gina Carano!)
The review will probably concentrate on the overall tone and agenda of rightie-made films, which are still in their infancy. Conservatives, when banding together, have traditionally been much poorer at creating entertaining content in the form of stories and movies (they're great with talk radio and YouTube alt-media vlogging, though). They're generally seen as humorless, moralizing, and overly didactic, but in the current era, liberals have become the humorless, moralizing scolds of late, giving certain conservatives a relative advantage (if advantage is the word). Look at the comedy of Canadian Ryan Long or the controversial American Tyler Fischer. Or over in England, the supposedly outrageous comedy of Katie Hopkins (she strikes me as rather mild, but she's been taken in by the police for the unforgivable crime of calling herself a "spaz"), who is all over my algorithm these days, protesting the Orwellian free-speech and pro-illegal-immigration injustices of the modern-day UK.
I'm also going to be canceling my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, and very soon, after I've got a few more videos under my belt, I'll be canceling my Skillshare subscription. That ought to ease some of my financial burdens over the coming year. Meanwhile, I'm keeping Netflix, which I used in order to watch the Guillermo del Toro version of "Frankenstein" last night.
One does what one can in trying times.
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