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Amazon Studios Scrapped Ranking Shows Based On Audience Scores Because It Revealed “Audiences Found Queer Stories Off-Putting”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-amazon-studios-jen-salke-vision-shows-1235364913

Here's the rightoid clickbait feed as well: https://twitter.com/BoundingComics/status/1643661002448175104

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Huh, I missed this article making the rounds on reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/12bdmzz/the_rings_of_power_only_had_a_37_completion_rate/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/12awyiq/the_hollywood_reporter_an_executive_at_a/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/LOTR_on_Prime/comments/12b2cth/amazon_studios_big_swings_hampered_by_confusion/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Rings_Of_Power/comments/12b9ero/only_37_of_us_domestic_viewers_completed_rop/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/12bhfj6/amazon_studios_big_swings_hampered_by_confusion/?sort=controversial

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They got busy writing articles like this, meanwhile Amazon Studios, besides Rings of Power Season 2, is working now on The Dark Tower series with Mike Flanagan to bring another popular fantasy from acclaimed writer to life in the form of a high budget series. A project all other studios passed on. Flanagan left Netflix to work with Amazon on this. He describes it as his dream project. In 2019, Jonathan Nolan with his wife and co-creator Lisa Joy left HBO/Warner Bros. TV for Amazon Studios, and besides Peripheral, are working now on the Fallout adaptation.

Prime Video is also consistently partaking in various film markets and festivals to buy interesting movies from strong filmmakers.

But no, "Confusion and Frustration" is all there is for some reporters.

I feel offended that some pr-drone really thinks that anyone would think thats an organic comment.

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>working now on the Fallout adaptation.

Oh for fricks sake now they gotta ruin that series too

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Already ruined :#marseycool:

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Bethesda already did so it's no loss.

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>Finally making a Dark Tower series

>Woke studio is going to portray Susannah as a wheelchair-bound black woman

:#marseyitsjoever:

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/16808064919453497.webp

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>A project all other studios passed on

ok, so that's going to be a bad show

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R*dditors will gobble it up because:marseydisney:

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is this supposed to imply The Peripheral is good? Cuz it sucks.

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Thanks for sharing King

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I watched it just to cry, im sure many others hate watched it

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I couldn't find that passage in the article but apparently amazons entertainment wing is completely disfunctional

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Another complaint is that Sanders relies heavily on feedback from focus groups, which tend to favor broad and less inclusive programming. Several Amazon insiders say the reliance on testing and data led to a clash late last summer, when an Amazon executive said in a marketing meeting for the series A League of Their Own that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show. Series co-creator Will Graham became greatly concerned about bias built into Amazon’s system for evaluating shows, which multiple sources say often ranked broad series featuring straight, white male leads above all others. One executive calls A League of Their Own “a proxy for how diverse and inclusive shows are treated.”

:marseyshitforbrains: Testing said audiences didn't like it. It performed poorly and got cancelled. It's the audience's fault that they don't like the shlock we put out!!

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Proof that wokeism isn't, contra /r/stupidpol, a cynical capitalist plot, but a force of its own

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These people live in such a bubble that they can't accept that most of the country doesn't like this shit; at best they tolerate it or ignore it. Darius and Juan would rather watch a straight white dude centered show than this loony progressive cac nonsense.

I know the brothas have to hate that at least half the Black male characters on TV are flamboyantly gay.

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Darius and Juan only watch peak fiction https://i.rdrama.net/images/16808424719693158.webp

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:#marseytariq:

https://media.giphy.com/media/EaIe1AS1L1Rp5m8AiG/giphy.webp

:#marseytariq2:

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A League of their Own was already a highly successful film about women’s baseball like lmao @ the idea that he was making something new

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Against my better judgement, I checked the show out because I love the movie. It was as much of a piece of shit as I thought it would probably be

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Nobody watches anything on prime video because it doesn't come with prime, the free shit sucks, and if I'm going to rent a movie I'll do it on YouTube

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are they sure it's because of "queer stories" or is it because it's fricking garbage

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are they sure it's because it's bad or is it because it's bad

:hmm:

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i promise you if u remove the queer aspect amazon shows don't improve

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if they removed the queer shit hamfisted into wheel of time it would have improved it slightly.

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perhaps some examples would become better but i doubt anything would go from bad to good

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correct, WoT would have been just slightly better but still a steaming pile of shit.

The Expanse also hamfisted in a lesbian/open I guess?? relationship with the character of Drummer fortunately it didn't detract much at all from show.

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I haven't read the books but the Drummer relationship felt completely natural to me. They didn't go out of their way to protect the relationship, remove their flaws or point it out all the time.

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sure, I didn't think it was necessary but it also didn't harm the show at all so yeah, not really a big deal.

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If they replaced it with s*x or something that people like it'd at least be popular.

:#marseytwerking:

:marseycoin::marseycoin::marseycoin:
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Patriot was very good

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I think the combination is a factor. It's one thing to have queer stories in a good show. It's another to have shit writing but still make a deliberate effort to shove in LGBT. It signals that politics are a higher priority than quality.

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/1680798700091305.webp

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Say goodbye to profits then.

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SURELY this will be the end og big media becauz they posh muh heckin LGBTQ

said th nervous chud for the 10th time

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I mean it won't be the end, but at some point the music stops.

The exceedingly forced LGBT shit does not show well (or at all) in other large markets like China. And it does not necessarily show well in the West either. Once the losses begin to pile up nothing else will matter.

If being a goose stepping Nazi was the current popular thing for society companies would all be changing their Twitter images to swastikas. Corporations don't have some moral compass.

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The rightoid belief that corporations will surely stop making us gay once they realize how much money they are leaving on the table is just a cope and will never happen. I’m convinced every ceo would sink their own company and every business would run all their properties into the ground just to own the rightoids.

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>corporations aren't profit-seeking

:marseyclapping:

Classic pinkoid argument!

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>still thinking profit matters

:marseyxd:

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>still stuck thinking in a low interest rate era

:marseylaugh:

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are you unironically r-slurred

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:marseyagreefast:

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They will turn around if companies actually meaningfully go under due to being too woke.

Losing a couple million is just spare change currently, it basically doesnt even register compared to the publicity impact they from being "hip". Globohomo corps wont change their PR course that their PR departments say is necessary to attract buyers and employees in current_year+8 just because one department/product runs a deficit one year.

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Yeah, but if the consoom wheel keeps turning, they can keep losing that couple million. Enough people just have to watch enough of whatever shit, and they can keep pushing it more and more.

We'll live in the pods and eat the bugs and own nothing while watching garbage and like it.

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BL performs well in China though that's so different from American cute twinkry as to have zero connection.

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Where does all the funding come from for all of the recent failed movies/shows? You take one look and can tell it's going to be a cringe shit fest, how do r-slurs fund them?

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I only watch new media like YouTube, there’s no pozzed content there :marseyaware:

Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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I finally got my youtube algo to not show me wingnut shit, and then they just shove a giant section of my page full of "recommendations" (SPOT 'MISINFORMATION' USING THESE 3 EZ TRICKS!) and any video that even mentions covid, climate change, etc has a big disclaimer pinned at the top linking to like fricking wikipedia

:marseyitsallsotiresome:

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I rarely ever get wingnut shit. When it does pop up I immediately report it as irrelevant and block the channel.

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!grillers

Good advice :#marseygrilling2:

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Same but also anytime an advertisment pops up on my feed, report it as innappropriate

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Yeah, I also report any ads that include even a whiff of politics.

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i just get: trackmania videos, reruns of friends, construction stuff, videos from pakistan about village welders and such. A lot of historie and le hecking science sometimes . found nilered on there. pretty swell guy.

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I like getting recommended 1k view count Eva memes. Keeps me on the platform.

Follower of Christ :marseyandjesus: Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.

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I live in Yuroland. A few weeks ago I got the algo to clear my history basically and all I got recommended was black fr*nch rappers and our public broadcaster making literal propaganda vids for kids about how to spot Russian misinformation.:marseyitsover:

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Muh pendulum swing :marseysal:

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https://i.rdrama.net/images/168080568756042.webp

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Interesting how little cultural staying power that show has. I had forgotten it existed until I read this article.

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Wow normies dont like strag shit? Who knew?

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>Another complaint is that Sanders relies heavily on feedback from focus groups, which tend to favor broad and less inclusive programming. Several Amazon insiders say the reliance on testing and data led to a clash late last summer, when an Amazon executive said in a marketing meeting for the series A League of Their Own that data showed audiences found queer stories off-putting and suggested downplaying those themes in materials promoting the show. Series co-creator Will Graham became greatly concerned about bias built into Amazon’s system for evaluating shows, which multiple sources say often ranked broad series featuring straight, white male leads above all others. One executive calls A League of Their Own “a proxy for how diverse and inclusive shows are treated.”

>Graham launched into an interrogation of the system, questioning multiple executives about it. Amazon took the issue seriously and dropped the system of ranking shows based on audience scores. Insiders cite this show as one that Sanders did passionately support, but for months after it dropped, there was no word on whether it would be renewed. Ultimately, Amazon agreed to a four-episode second and final season. Still, several Amazon veterans believe the system remains too dependent on those same test scores. “All this perpetuation of white guys with guns — it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy,” says one. And another: “Relying on data is soul crushing … There’s never, ‘I know the testing wasn’t that great, but I believe in this.'” Graham declined to comment.

"Hmmmm should our company, which was founded to make money, attempt to make money orrrrrrr should it attempt to advance the unprofitable personal agenda of our middle management?"

Truly an impossible question to answer. :marseysob:

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:#marseynoooticer:

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:#marseyrabbitnewyear:

Snapshots:

https://twitter.com/BoundingComics/status/1643661002448175104:

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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.

Amazon Studios Scrapped Ranking Shows #based On Audience Scores Because It Revealed “Audiences Found Queer Stories Off-Putting” https://rdrama.net/post/160979/amazon-studios-scrapped-ranking-shows-based #RKelly #women #weird

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>it has arguably never had a brand-defining show that is a commercial and critical juggernaut in the vein of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix’s Stranger Things or Apple’s Ted Lasso

Is Ted Lasso really that big? I would have thought The Boys was more popular

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I think The Boys is ending soon and will be replaced by a wokemaxx budget-cucked spinoff called Gen V.

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