why we should ALL care about the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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intro 0:00-0:50
how the strike happened 0:51-3:45
demands/negotiations 3:46-7:17
impact on Hollywood 7:18-8:34
content creators 8:35-10:12
why i care & why you should too 10:13-11:46
ending thoughts 11:47-12:21
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The fact that this feels like a real life black mirror episode is crazy.
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Love that the corporate executives trying to replace writers and actors with AI are acting like their jobs wouldn't be infinitely easier to replace.
Everyone seems to want to believe this, but then they talk about how we desperately need a man like Joe Biden running the entire nation. The truth is that the position of CEO is actually a complex one that requires a lot of personal interactions and the ability to develop and nurture long-term plans and policies for a company. Part of the reason so many companies are doing poorly is the insidious power of Wall Street which has driven the CEOs of far too many companies to view their job as one of seeking the greatest possible short term gains, which often ruins the company over time. And which has definitely driven a huge part of the new policies which so frustrate the writers and actors.
So no, corporate executives aren't easy to replace, at least not good ones. But I agree that writers and actors are not easy to replace either, if they are good. A huge part of the argument for AI writers is the terrible writing that has been produced by the majority of the writers over the last two decades or so. The quality of the writing is horrible, so why not allow AI to do the work? Honestly, it can't be any worse.
That's what I've been saying!
@@NeoPokebonzfr, ai is way smarter than the executives
I'll never forget that quote that came out from a CEO before SAG-AFTRA joined the strikes that said that the studios were planning on waiting until the strikers were literally homeless before they can consider returning to the table. They should be glad that the strikers don't want to bring out the guillotines and molotov cocktails.
I do hope that this moment inspires all present and future writers and creators.
me too!!
I am a writer and artist (A beginner animator) and I’ve always wanted to start an animated series and fan series
Im kinda worried about all this because once i get out of college i want to become a tv writer and screenwriter
@@Matay000 I want to do all of those jobs too, but I will have to wait three years before I am fully graduated and qualified to do it, even if the strike ends before 2024 and the writers and actors who are striking find a way to get what fair deals they need. 😭 I will be too depressed to work any job if greed makes writing and acting a dead career by stealing all of the fair wages out of it.
@@adamkalb1 honestly at this point i dont care about the wages anymore. Ai really scares me. Id rather have a second job whilst writing than no job because of ai
I'm so glad you made a video summarizing the protest. I honestly had no idea what the WGA nor what the SAG-AFTRA were before all this news broke out. Unfortunately, when I tried to tune in on the news, everything was explained without much context and to an audience that is already aware of the protest from the start which left me so confused.
So glad you took the time to break it down and explain things in a more digestible way! 🙌🏾💛
I remember Ke Huy Quan talking about his status before ‘EEAAO’ where he was struggling to make ends meet and his insurance up to date.
SAG Member here. Thank you so much for your support ❤ Really looking forward to the day you join this wonderful union. We'd be lucky to have you!
Must everything sacred be sacrificed for the sake of corporate greed? 😞
No way! The corporate platypus controlling us likes to think that the world revolves around him, but it does not.
But won't anyone think of the poor handful of corporate executives who rely on keeping actors poor for their sweet sweet exploitation profits???
Seriously though thank you for making such a thorough and important video
Why not start up your own movie studio and make your own movies while working with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA? You could stop the exploitation by putting together your own deals and showing the corporate executives that there is a better way.
@markvargus6519 Good idea. Anyone who isn't getting paid enough should start their own business in that industry. The cash poor actors should start their own major studio in Hollywood to rival studios that have been around over 100 years. Sounds easy.
@@thoomolong right? Such a great idea! 😂
I can tell you are being sarcastic just to humour them. No one needs to think of that "poor handful" of corrupt corporate executives because (A) they caused this problem by not thinking of the exploited actors in question, and (B) they can totally afford to give up 4 billion in 40 billion dollars to end this strike and meet the demands of the writers and actors on strike.
re the corsets: a lot of people who make them for these productions don't make them properly OR the producer's/directors asked for them to be tight laced, which isn't historically accurate... and usualy this is because they want the actressed to look as thin as possible. it's dangerous so the very least they could to if they're not compensating them is have people who are educated on them be the ones to make them. They should absolutely not be causing the amount of pain they've caused actresses
it's simply highlighting yet another production issue
ALSO the discrimination part is nuts that they wont discuss that!!! I was taught in film school that if you don't specify the race/cultural background of the character, they default to white and NOT to an open casting.
Woah I'm so early😂🫶
Edit: I'm from Hong Kong, but i still wanna say that i really like your videos and i really hope everyone involved in the strike can get their demands met. People who don't support them is really ignorant and should really educate themselves on this issue. If people across the Pacific Ocean/different continents can understand and support their strike, so can they. Once again thank you for the insight for this ongoing strike!
thank you for the support! ❤️
6:02 as an artist, I hate ai sm, but tbh I’m not even surprised that companies are using this to be greedy as hell.
People are always willing to exploit artists. Ai just made it worse
@@akemikitamura5551 exactly.
@@Suited_NatAs an artist, I agree
Ai should definitely be used but not for art. I would hate to live in a world where all movies and tv are ai generated
Thank you for posting about this, it's important we stand together
Thank you for making this video, it was highly informative and really highlights the problems actors and writers face.
Indie developers have my full support through this
Amazing job structuring & overall explanation. I thought I knew about the topic but after watching I realized I probably knew 25% at most. You nailed everything from the main points to the smaller details which are quite significant and impact working class lives.
Thank you for making this video❤. The entire entertainment industry needs change for better and I believe one day, they will all get their respect, hard-work given, and rights to them
Literally the most detailed strike coverage I've seen. XD Thoroughly impressed. Excellent work!
Even a lot of famous actors who you think are rich, really aren't. A very small amount of actors and screenwriters are actually making bank.
Wow I hadn't heard that some indie productions made deals. That is VERY telling about where the problem is.
thanks for this - I've been so lost as to what's going on
5:23 NYC and LA are bearing a lot of pressure as it is. More subsidiaries/ancillaries need to be in place.
SAG-AFTRA’s proposed deal with AMPTP is estimated to only cost each studio around $23M per year.
Great video, really informative!
Great video, great synthesis
Wild how WGA/SAG-AFTRA aren't even asking for much but the studios won't give them anything. Great video! I can't wait for the next one.
Fantastic video, very much agree any content creators promoting struck films/tv should be seen as scabbing. The studios will utilise meme culture to promote so we may even have to boycott any memes that feature upcoming content too; I am 100% convinced the Barbenheimer trend was manufactured. The studios tried to make 'saw patrol' a thing and everyone cringed, so now they've learned their lesson on how subtle it needs to be. Big Hollywood is burning - this is small industries time to shine.
Well done!
Crew members are constantly hopping from set to set. It's exhausting, unecessary, and unfair.
Its not just about rich people complaining, these are working fellow americans and they deserve better.
In my town someone died driving to set from exhaustion.
I knew of the strikes some things that was done and said but this put it all together nicely.
I didnt know SAG-AFTRA made those statements about content creators and not promoting struck work. I pretty much only make content on one show and the new season is about to start, I was ready to go buck wild. But I'm going to unlist my most recent video and make a post referring to this video. You explain it clearly why we all should be in solidarity with the Labor Unions.
Being or writing a story that made it on the screen has always been the dream. We should all be applauded how the ones that are living that dream are not being compensated fairly.
Please re-list that unlisted video! I am starting to get into your channel after reading this comment, and I want to see the video you just made about the Hollywood strike.
I just watch old stuff. I don't care for much of the new.
It’s so weird to not watch movies or tv show but i think it’s worth it to have father to apply to buy his daughter clothes and roof over her head just because I didn’t support a millionaire who don’t buy his workers their money (I don’t know if i made a spelling mistake so sorry beforehand)
Pick up video games. Or books. They're better than anything hollywood is producing. I'm with you tho❤
There's the thing though, we have a SHIT TON of content to watch still, just not releases
Abolish copyright & the unions should take the money they’ve gathered & start their own studios paying people what they deem fair. This competition will get Hollywood to have to compete much more whether in terms of money or vacation ect.
6:53 Adam ruins Billionaires
Thank you !
Great video, you are legit girl, keep going
Was that Adam from Adam Ruins Everything?
Heck yeah.
My brain is so trashy that every time I heard Zac Efron when you were talking about the company 😅
We all should care because we're all going to be out of a job. McDonald's, Walmart cashier's, etc. Teacher's are still going to have there jobs because no parent is not get to let a robot look after there toddler, but doctors, police officers, and cashier's are done. And sad to say I might even be done myself we're going down. And Jesus is soon to come because we're living in the last days.
I hate this! Greed is failing us as a society by using Artificial Intelligence to make humanity obsolete, so that everybody who is not upper class will be jobless, broke and homeless. 😢 I hate it when good jobs turn into dead careers.
SAGAFTRA AND WGA STRONG!!!
Also, the CEOs COULD stop the strike, we are getting delays because of THEM, they just don't want to
I have a dumb question. If the strike means no working or promoting at all why is the Barbie cast still promoting their film?I still see premiere clips and interviews from them. Is Barbie a scab? LOL
Celebrities do press junkets where they do non stop press for days. So these are just from those few days they did this publicity and the Barbie premieres were pre strike also. So these clips are just being circulated or released now
The general public and Hollywood are pretty dim. Automation has been occurring in manufacturing and automotive for a while now. Wish they had the same energy for those people but instead they told middle america to just get new jobs. Don’t even get started on the lack of empathy towards coal country. I hope they have some thoughtfulness going forward about all industries because they aren’t wrong just late. The majority of America gets shafted by corporate America
Oh man don't get me started on what's going to happen to the towns and people that have depended on coal hundreds of years. It's heartbreaking. The average working man (or woman) trying to support his/her family gets sh*t on yet again
Those junkyard teens in Phineas and Ferb were right. Corporations are a platypus, the government's a platypus, your teacher is a platypus keeping you down by not paying you enough and not educating you at all.
AI takeover commencing 🤖
I think as of right now women hold off for a minute with having children because we're not going to have a job 2030 or maybe 2025.
@@jaya-squishiehuntr019 Some people want kids because when you get older we all are going to need them to help us out because people in the nursing home is not going to want to change our poop depend diapers when we're to old and can't move. No one will help you like your kids will so I advise you to have some kids but not to many because one day we're going to need them when we're too old.
Some of those demands were crazy. Like relocation. If you decide to apply for a job out of state you know you have to move. Why should the employer pay extra for your rent. The warbdrobe was weird too. If sag members apply to a period peice , created by a sag worker , that should be taken up within sag and not chargeed to the studios. Meals and rest had to be rejected cause the studios has no control of what happens on set. P& h benefits is just extra pay in many of these actors situations. They don't work long enough to qualify and just get it reimbursed later.
But most jobs outside of hollywood do help you relocate. If you interview and you say I live here ATM they will give you a relocation fee if they want you to have the job. Especially since acting jobs are temporary. You need to either pay my rent in the new location for those 4 months or cover my rent back home. I've worked on film productions and the idea of anyone asking me to pay for my own room and board while I was working away from home for them is so ridiculous
The only issue is that content creators don't buy their breakfast with likes when they're not currently part of SAG, so aren't being financially supported by the "strike fund". It's hard. I empathise.
I am trying so hard to care but i really don't, i habent watched shows or movies for almost 2 years.
You are still welcome to care about every more essential occupation where a strike like this has occurred, is occurring or will occur.
i am sorry but penalties for not having a break on time is a crazy ask. so shooting goes 5 minutes over and you are late for your break so you get paid extra as a mandatory fine
It's to prevent companies from intentionally overworking actors and then saying "oops looks like we went over! Sorry besties!" I think people forget that acting is a very physically intensive job. A ton of them have to do things like dance and sing while they act, and even if you were just standing and talking all day your voice would get super hoarse. You'd never deny breaks to athletes. We shouldn't for actors either, or anyone really.
@@akemikitamura5551 except there are currently labor laws that exist to prevent DENYING breaks. This is about not having them on an exact schedule. This is about establishing another work-to-rule condition that actors can exploit to blackmail acceptance of their diva conditions.
The small studios fall below the minimum so the penalties DON" T APPLY AT ALL. It is a scummy little trick to use to try and claim that the demands are reasonable.
Its unfortunate, but how fair is it to ask for more pay and stability for more and more people, when there are alternatives that cost virtually nothing with ai for writers or newbies for actors, just because they exist in this career? Just saying.
I think asking for more pay and stability is completely reasonable, as these workers are simply asking to be fairly compensated for their labor instead of being overworked and underpaid. I also don't think that AI is simply advanced enough to write scripts that capture the humanity and heart that comes from the minds of real individuals. The only way AI can even function is to be trained by input from human-written content. So shifting to a completely AI-driven future wouldn't even output good products if you kill all the new creative content that trains the technology itself.
Bro, if you think ai is just as good a storyteller as human writers or actors, you have really lost the plot. And even if it was, ai doesn't invent anything. It just blends and mixes the work of others (without giving them credit mind you) to give the illusion of creativity. You won't ever find an ai actually inventing new ideas. And as another comment mentions, why are we pretending that the jobs of these CEOs wouldn't be MUCH easier to replace than the jobs of the people who actually make the stories?
This is a wild take
You have to be joking. Like, you seriously have to be kidding. You’re SERIOUSLY siding with these corporate f*cks on this? Literally their money going towards more pay for actors, writers and artists wouldn’t make a DENT in their finances, and even if it did, they would still be left with enough money to live a decent lifestyle. Not necessarily one where they can buy 12 Lamborghinis and a 26 bedroom mansion and all the rare steak in the world, but they would still live in a nice house with nice cars in a nice neighborhood. This strike is about sh*tting on these corporate a**hole’s lust for control and greed, and making them meet the demands that are NECESSARY. And if they don’t, let them burn and fall on their faces, they brought this on to themselves.
@@jaz_luo_studio dude most people in the economy are underpaid NOT JUST ACTORS!😒 and honestly I understand where the studios come from with extras. Why pay ppl to pretend they're talking and doing things when u can make ai extras do it, not only that u save money 🙃
Okay I wrote all this down and as a former performer here is my issue. Having multiple writers means less pay for every single writer. Take it or don’t but that’s more to separate. Same thing with health and pension. I do agree to not using AI I think we all do. I think if you have to move somewhere else, the company should pay for that. However I can’t speak on that because what does that look like? As a doer we performer most of not a majority of my expenses were covered when needed to travel. If you CHOOSE to take a job and have to wear something binding. That’s on you not the company, maybe get solidified insurance for the time of that show. However get paid extra? No. Define for me “Geographic discrimination in casting.” Late payments of course I agree to, there is no reason anyone should get paid late for work they did on time. Unless a clause is put in that allows an extra late fee paid to the person who’s being sent the check. For the last two I agree on but breaks in the gig industry need to be clear cut. When I was performing your break was when you weren’t performing. So that one varies and needs to be visited as a whole to have clear definition. Some of the CEO’s would rather burn money than give it to anyone else, however some of these demands are too much. One article was saying that someone should get paid more because LA is so expensive they need a “livable wage” to stay there. Don’t stay there, just move and work remotely.
You make it sound that WGA/SAG-AFTRA can do no wrong but look at string of flops that viewers hate's the most are writers changing script for "modern audiences", Peter Pan & Wendy[2023], Cinderella[2021] Dumbo, The Little Mermaid [2023] and Snow White butchered the classics so they can insert diversity and you know they make feminist movie that hate men so much like the new Barbie movie.
Wah, you didn't like a few movies. I honestly can't stand this selfish mentality. Just because YOU didn't like a few movies doesn't mean others had different opinions. Just because A FEW movies were bad doesn't mean all recent production has been awful. You are taking a few instances of mainstream projects that you personally disliked and are deciding that because you had A FEW bad experiences, people shouldn't be paid. Do you not see how insane that is? Also, if you think it's the writers making political script changes, you're simply dead wrong. 99% of the time the ones calling those shots are executives, who can change scripts or make demands that writers can't override. That's part of the fight here too. Writers and actors have way less creative freedom than most people think. But whether or not a movie conforms to your political views shouldn't determine whether people get paid for the work they do. If they showed up, did their job, and the project performed well in the market, they should get paid. Whether you personally thought the quality was good is besides the point.
They could start by trying to win back those fans they ran off with calling them ists and phobes for not liking a product. Will that fan base ever come back
Rich people suing rich people. Yawn, I got a dead send job to got to , I need to eat.
We don’t care that’s y’all business if you don’t like your pay get a job that pays more like every other tax payer citizen does
First be good at your jobs, most recent products have been flops and substandard. If production loses money how do you expect a raise.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are making a killing as we speak, what are you talking about? Streaming services at large are making a killing. There is no excuse for not paying writers or actors their dues. They are not short for cash.
The Hollywood labor strike outside Netflix in Los Angeles today 🪧
SAG-AFTRA: Day 6
WGA: Day 79
Netflix has added 5.89 million subscribers in Q2 2023.
Netflix says it is upping their free cash flow estimate to $5 billion-plus for the full year whilst still refusing to pay actors & writers fairly.
This is terrible! Netflix might as well exploit five kid actresses _again,_ since nobody at Netflix can comprehend why Cuties is illegal for how it was made, or comprehend the reason that age-of-consent laws exist in this timeline.
When mine workers protested, they told to learn to code. I will tell same to them: Learn to code😂😂😂😂😂
If you're good with having nothing but shitty shows and movies, then yeah why doesn't everyone just code🤪 Also you think ai can't code? honey you've got a big storm coming
@akemikitamura5551 Modern movies and TV shows are just crap, full of agenda. If shitty writers and mediocre actors leave industry, I will have no problem with that. Most of these "writers" can't even adapt material, which is already written. I am sure that A.I. is able to write same quality script as CW channel, HBO Max, Disney+, Netflix shows writers. The worthless will leave, the worthy will remain
@@edsab5864 Spoken like someone who really doesn't understand the industry. Part of the reason writers specifically are protesting is a lack of creative control. Oftentimes, the scripts the writers create get tampered with by executives or CEOS (they're who you have to thank for pushing an "agenda," not the writers), which the writers have no power to change. And that doesn't even account for the frequency at which writers are fired and hired midway through production. This can and has happened multiple times in the production of ONE project, so it's no wonder those ones turn out like crap. Everything you're complaining about is the fault of the higher ups. In addition to giving artists barely enough money, they also give them almost no authority over the projects they create. Pay writers and actors, respect them, and they will deliver. Treat them like babies and refuse them enough pay, then yeah don't be surprised when your favorite show starts sucking.
@@akemikitamura5551we already have shitty shows.
@@akemikitamura5551the writers seems pretty proud of their work. They keep calling people who dont like their work all kind of phobics.