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WBC_Injury
04/11/23 4:09:03 PM
#201:


Just a reminder that if this is 462 aka SoksForWok (which it is), he was banned a few years ago for posting child gore and calling the victims "animals". Once that happened, he went full mask off and started getting a billion accounts banned a year posting racist shit.
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archedsoul
04/11/23 4:11:04 PM
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archedsoul posted...
This seems like a clickbait article meant to entertain and rile up idiots. Just the Disney stuff is pretty inaccurate. Iger was brought back to cut $5.5 billion. That's almost double what Zaslav is working with, and he already made his plan pretty clear. Disney+ has also been losing an insane amount.

And I personally don't even believe anything like "going woke makes you broke". However, lots of stuff that has been accused of being woke either flopped or failed to meet expectations.

This doesn't even mean much overall. You're dealing with mega corporations. They've calculated the loss already. None of them can possibly go broke even if they put out stinkers for a few years. After that, investors might start pulling out in droves like they partially did last year.

This is even more apparent with advertising. Boycotts just end up being indistinguishable from advertising at some point like with Nike, Chik-fil-A and Hogwarts. TV and Movies have more of a "people just aren't tuning in" thing. Ads are just like "yo, I wonder what the craze is about"
Uh, not really. They have not been successful. The most successful products in the last 2 years have been No Way Home, Top Gun Maverick, and Avatar 2. Disney+ had a loss of $4 billion last year and then another $1 billion this past quarter.

Everything else has failed to meet expectations of you've been following a lot of these company's finances. If you listened to Disney's last investor meeting, investors were questioning Iger on why this is happening and he was talking about how it is to give things a chance and get untapped audiences and that they might have screwed up with some and will now be more cautious about quality and appealing to everybody and pre-existing audiences.

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:11:58 PM
#203:


Murphiroth posted...
Define

The loop continues!

What do you want to hear exactly?

That people in fact loved these woke things instead of hated them?

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Heartomaton
04/11/23 4:12:30 PM
#204:


...Did you just disagree with yourself?

Edit: @ #202

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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:12:32 PM
#205:


EnormousBreasts posted...
I am not, this is about the most polite answer I can give. How would you define then?

The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

But it is the incorrect definition of woke. So if that's what you think "woke" is, then you're just flat out wrong.

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:18:55 PM
#206:


bigblu89 posted...
The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

But it is the incorrect definition of woke. So if that's what you think "woke" is, then you're just flat out wrong.

If only we had this at the start of the topic
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archedsoul
04/11/23 4:19:00 PM
#207:


bigblu89 posted...
The term "Stay Woke" originated in African-American circles to remind each other to remain aware of the societal differences between cultures and races. To remind them that people may treat them different based on prejudice.

It then somehow morphed to be anything that shows something "against the norm".

So a strong female lead in a movie. A play about the Founding Fathers being cast mostly by minorities. A sitcom with a non-stereotyped gay character. That all somehow became the new definition of what "woke" is.

But it is the incorrect definition of woke. So if that's what you think "woke" is, then you're just flat out wrong.
Because the term is now a racist catchall.

However, while it started in the way mentioned, before it hit the mainstream, it was used by a lot of conspiracy theorist black guys. It basically meant to trust no mainstream media at all.

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A_Good_Boy
04/11/23 4:21:30 PM
#208:


EnormousBreasts posted...
If only we had this at the start of the topic
We've been asking you to define since the start of the topic. You lost an account over it, remember?

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:22:22 PM
#209:


A_Good_Boy posted...
We've been asking you to define since the start of the topic. You lost an account over it, remember?

Dont remind me
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Murphiroth
04/11/23 4:22:25 PM
#210:


EnormousBreasts posted...
The loop continues!

What do you want to hear exactly?

That people in fact loved these woke things instead of hated them?

Nah I just want you to stop being a spineless coward and be more specific, but you won't do that because you're afraid of getting yet another account popped for your shitty nonsense.
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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:23:43 PM
#211:


EnormousBreasts posted...
If only we had this at the start of the topic

We did. I posted this over 70 posts ago.

You chose to ignore it.

I also posted:

Disney stock (which also make Marvel movies) is up 11% this year.

Warner Bros/Discovery (who make DC movies) is up FIFTY NINE PERCENT this year.

Anheuser-Busch is up 10%

So tell me again how these companies are failing?

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archedsoul
04/11/23 4:25:37 PM
#212:


Oh shit, I just realized I quoted my own post earlier instead of ellis123.

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:26:43 PM
#213:


Take the new Scooby Doo Show, Velma.

Its full of identity swaps and is absolutely awful.

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Heartomaton
04/11/23 4:28:17 PM
#214:


archedsoul posted...
Oh shit, I just realized I quoted my own post earlier instead of ellis123.

Ah. Thanks for clarification. I thought there was some alt shenanigans afoot.

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WBC_Injury
04/11/23 4:29:16 PM
#215:


EnormousBreasts posted...
Take the new Scooby Doo Show, Velma.

Its full of identity swaps and is absolutely awful.

Are you mentally incapable of distinguishing a show that's trash from a show that happens to have "identity swaps" ?
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Murphiroth
04/11/23 4:30:37 PM
#216:


EnormousBreasts posted...
Take the new Scooby Doo Show, Velma.

Its full of identity swaps and is absolutely awful.

Sure that show is bad, but it's not because of any identity swaps.

You're really fuckin' bad at this lmao
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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:31:48 PM
#217:


EnormousBreasts posted...
Take the new Scooby Doo Show, Velma.

Its full of identity swaps and is absolutely awful.

But, again, it's not because it's "woke". It's because it's just a poorly written show that didn't have any identity and didn't know what it wanted to be.

One can argue that four of the top five grossing movies OF ALL TIME have female leads.

Avatar 1 and 2, Titanic, and Force Awakens.

And 3 of the 4 are women as "Action Heroes" roles traditionally reserved for male characters.

BOTH Frozen movies, which SCREAM "Girl Power" are in the top 20.

Are those also "woke"? Because if they are, they fly in the face of your "go woke, go broke" mantra.

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ZevLoveDOOM
04/11/23 4:33:58 PM
#218:


the word "woke" is so overused to the point where it lost all meaning.

and this was probably said more times than the word "woke" has been used by now... lol
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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:36:24 PM
#219:


WBC_Injury posted...
Are you mentally incapable of distinguishing a show that's trash from a show that happens to have "identity swaps" ?

Murphiroth posted...
Sure that show is bad, but it's not because of any identity swaps.

You're really fuckin' bad at this lmao

And somehow Im the one modded for trolling

bigblu89 posted...
But, again, it's not because it's "woke". It's because it's just a poorly written show that didn't have any identity and didn't know what it wanted to be.

Thats being polite

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Supersex420
04/11/23 4:37:05 PM
#220:


i thought get woke go broke only applied to smaller companies that want to make changes but don't have the resources to make it happen, so they do it poorly, and their business suffers as a result.

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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:37:45 PM
#221:


EnormousBreasts posted...


Thats being polite

And you're just going to ignore the rest of my post that decimated your platform that "woke" movies aren't successful?

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WBC_Injury
04/11/23 4:37:51 PM
#222:


WBC_Injury posted...
Just a reminder that if this is 462 aka SoksForWok (which it is), he was banned a few years ago for posting child gore and calling the victims "animals". Once that happened, he went full mask off and started getting a billion accounts banned a year posting racist shit.

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lolife67
04/11/23 4:40:14 PM
#224:


bigblu89 posted...
And you're just going to ignore the rest of my post that decimated your platform that "woke" movies aren't successful?
To be fair, he's a pretty obvious troll so it's your fault for continuing to expect a serious answer at this point.
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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:44:29 PM
#225:


lolife67 posted...
To be fair, he's a pretty obvious troll so it's your fault for continuing to expect a serious answer at this point.

At this point, it seems so.

I really wish he wasn't, because I'd love to really dive into someone that thinks like he does, and try to get them to explain their stance without using buzzwords and catchphrases fed to them by their TV.

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:47:24 PM
#226:


bigblu89 posted...
And you're just going to ignore the rest of my post that decimated your platform that "woke" movies aren't successful?

Those movies werent considered woke aside from Avatar 2. They are successful in their own rights, Avatar being a global phenomenon, Force Awakening the revival of Starwars, despite its own shortcomings like being a huge rehash.
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Bishop9800
04/11/23 4:51:53 PM
#227:


WBC_Injury posted...
Just a reminder that if this is 462 aka SoksForWok (which it is), he was banned a few years ago for posting child gore and calling the victims "animals". Once that happened, he went full mask off and started getting a billion accounts banned a year posting racist shit.

this explains a lot

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 4:55:02 PM
#228:


That wasnt even me who posted that, they just latched in on to me for some reason.
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Heineken14
04/11/23 4:57:02 PM
#230:


https://imgur.com/N4nWsYV.jpg

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bigblu89
04/11/23 4:57:07 PM
#231:


EnormousBreasts posted...
Those movies werent considered woke aside from Avatar 2. They are successful in their own rights, Avatar being a global phenomenon, Force Awakening the revival of Starwars, despite its own shortcomings like being a huge rehash.

And the Frozen movies being the 2nd and 3rd most successful movies in Disney Animation Studios history? Both were largely labeled as "woke" due to their strong female leads.

You're allowed to admit you're wrong. No one will fault you for it.

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Bishop9800
04/11/23 5:02:12 PM
#232:


This is how I'm picturing EB/WhisperWolf right now..... https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/6/AAB1wnAAEX4w.jpg

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 5:05:33 PM
#233:


bigblu89 posted...
And the Frozen movies being the 2nd and 3rd most successful movies in Disney Animation Studios history? Both were largely labeled as "woke" due to their strong female leads.

You're allowed to admit you're wrong. No one will fault you for it.

I am wrong, theres is no woke!

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WBC_Injury
04/11/23 5:06:07 PM
#234:


EnormousBreasts posted...
I am wrong, theres is no woke!

Now he's getting it!
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Heineken14
04/11/23 5:06:30 PM
#235:


Bishop9800 posted...
This is how I'm picturing EB/WhisperWolf right now.....


https://imgur.com/eqTPjOs.jpg

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bigblu89
04/11/23 5:08:42 PM
#236:


EnormousBreasts posted...
I am wrong, theres is no woke!
Glad it only took you a few hours to come around.

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WBC_Injury
04/11/23 5:09:32 PM
#237:


bigblu89 posted...
Glad it only took you a few hours to come around.

Two decades tbqh
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ellis123
04/11/23 5:17:23 PM
#238:


Aww, I liked his definition. As my frontal lobe wasn't replaced with cotton candy it was simple to realize that it applied to Christians because they keep race-swapping Christ, or really any standard American conservative thing because all of them go against some form of basic understood concept, and that conservatives were the woke ones all along. It's just such a complete lack of critical thinking that it is like watching someone stick their junk in the blender while holding eye contact with you.

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BearlyWilling
04/11/23 5:21:03 PM
#239:


Unite posted...
What about the certain Disney films not breaking even in theatres?

Yeah, like Turning Red which broke streaming records for Disney+!

Clearly a woke issue and not at all that people just dont want to go to theaters anymore outside of things like big blockbuster spectacles. Were just now getting back to more and more people going to the theater as theyre realizing that same day or even same month streaming releases are getting more and more rare.

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Gwynevere
04/11/23 5:27:41 PM
#240:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Holy Jesus what a shitshow of a topic lol

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Solar_Crimson
04/11/23 5:52:07 PM
#241:


Bishop9800 posted...
This is how I'm picturing EB/WhisperWolf right now.....
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https://i.imgur.com/FeqK4B1.gif

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 6:01:06 PM
#242:


BearlyWilling posted...
Yeah, like Turning Red which broke streaming records for Disney+!

I havent watched it myself and cant remember any reactions. It could have been great or been a product of the greater circumstances such as the pandemic forcing everyone to stay indoors. I watch it for myself sometime

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AceMos
04/11/23 6:13:38 PM
#243:


the fuck happened in this topic i take a nap and come back to world war 3

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Heineken14
04/11/23 6:16:26 PM
#245:


Cpt_Pineapple posted...
https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1645802805750566912


This should tell anyone all they need to know that the phrase means absolutely fuck all of this dipshit is saying it. Lol

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ellis123
04/11/23 6:16:51 PM
#246:


AceMos posted...
the fuck happened in this topic i take a nap and come back to world war 3
You knew what you were doing when you wrote "woke" in the title.

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EnormousBreasts
04/11/23 6:22:09 PM
#247:


AceMos posted...
the fuck happened in this topic i take a nap and come back to world war 3

We lost
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AceMos
04/11/23 6:25:08 PM
#248:


EnormousBreasts posted...
We lost
whos we?

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ellis123
04/11/23 6:32:43 PM
#249:


AceMos posted...
whos we?
Him and his legion of alts.

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Giblet_Enjoyer
04/11/23 7:22:18 PM
#250:


Murphiroth posted...
Sure that show is bad, but it's not because of any identity swaps.

You're really fuckin' bad at this lmao
That's kind of a distinction without a difference, tbf. The people who hold values that lead to that sort of thing usually have no talent and can't produce anything of worth.

Same is true of the other extreme of course, see: God Is Not Dead

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