The Writers Strike is Stupid

Don't take it too seriously. It's purposefully hyperbolic and extreme. Treat it like comedy. And if by some miracle some of you happen to agree with me, don't take this word for word and drive a tank through a crowd of protesters.
Performed and edited by Eric Nye. If you're a Hollywood exec, hit me up. I'll shine your shoes.
#writersstrike #hollywood #sagstrike

[@yggdrasil2]

Is this satire?

[@FallopiumFilms]

This wasn't the sort of video that was meant to make a coherent argument. It's part satire, part catharsis, part exploration, mostly for me, but also for anyone who wants to watch. The point was to take an opinion I may or may not have and play a character who takes it to its most extreme and ridiculous limit. I delivered it like a drunk comedian. Now, I'm not completely hiding behind this. I DO find it annoying that on one day all Hollywood writers are considered hacks (because, most of them clearly are) and then the next day they are heroes, simply because union=good, rich people=bad. Even though unions are often good and plenty of rich people are bad and the writers are getting screwed over, this doesn't make the writers blameless. Most of them do produce worthless content. So even though there are plenty of reasons to do what everyone else does and "support" the writers, I thought it would be fun to play a character who is WAY too opposed. I started rolling and didn't know what this character was going to say. Clearly I don't want to run protesters over with tanks. I don't sweat and scream and swear about things that I truly care about. When I want to convince an audience of something I think is important, I get serious and deliberate. This wasn't about winning an argument or changing anyone's mind. It was about exploring the opposite side of the "correct" opinion by taking it way too far. It's shock comedy, that, to me, and maybe a few others, might have a kernel of truth in it. I'm a writer and an actor, what can I say.

[@phatle2737]

@@FallopiumFilms you just being hysterical its embarrassing.

[@kuelapfortress1687]

​@@phatle2737the wga strike is histerical

[@lukeshioshio]

​@@FallopiumFilms it's not satire bro just own your opinion. It's true anyway

[@FallopiumFilms]

@@lukeshioshio Well sure, but I don't want people to be run over by tanks. I mean, I think. I don't know anymore. No. Wait, people definitely should not be run over by tanks. Right?

[@Chrisfeb68]

Hollywood sucks. The writers and actors are in for a rude awakening.

[@CraftyArts]

When you are a head writer of a tv show and you dont get to afford health insurance while bob igor keeps his billions. Also a lot of actors dont make fists full of money. Also who do you think decides on what shows writers get to do? Executive producers or writers? The other thousands of homeless people should be unionizing too like ups did who actually scored a victory for workers rights and soon should the writers and actors should too. And there are plenty of good movies, if you actually look for them instead of just jumping on the hype trains for your marvel and transformers movies. Holy sht what a dumb take. 4:23 we can juggle and support them too, i dont know if you noticed but the government blocked their ability to even legally strike.

[@Anon0nline]

Not a single one of them has shown any documentation that they're all poor and about to become homeless. On the contrary, both major speakers for the strike, Danny Trejo and Fran Drescher, are in debt and are whining about having to sell extra homes to pay back debt. On the otherhand, the majority of grips, dressers and set designers are renting and near homelessness. The writers and actors guilds in Hollywood have taken staunch opposition to those workers obtaining a living labor wage. Writer and actors are already entitled millionaires that do not wish to live within their means.

[@edercortes1960]

How is Danny Trejo in Debt? My dude has made movies make millions of dollars or has been part of franchises yet his broke ? See this is why I can’t support her strike

[@JW-kf6ou]

they're forgetting all the other people other than writers that support film making that can't work because they've shut it all down. These days honestly the writing has been so bad its not really worth the money they are asking for. Not the say the CEOs and other people shouldnt take a pay cut though the amount some these people get paid for some of these films is stupid.

[@brandnewdan]

Holy shit dude, we are NOT going to agree on this lol. I really like this channel and a LOT of your videos make great points, but I don't think I agree on a single point here. But we can agree to disagree. Keep making good content and I'm glad you're at least honest with your opinions!

[@FallopiumFilms]

I appreciate you lol

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

@@FallopiumFilmsnah dude, yer on to something with this. I'm starting to suspect that major corporate studio movies are a money laundering operation akin to modern art. The budget vs the final product doesn't line up.

[@FallopiumFilms]

@@danzigmcnaniel5226 now THAT is a fucking plot to a movie my friend

[@chrisseas6725]

I agree with your points about the quality of writing being subpar/bad in today's media world. I would argue there's a lot of fantastic movies and TV shows being made still, there's a lot of shit yes, but there's a lot of great stuff as well. Maybe this video is satire and I've missed that. But the quality of the writing is the fault of the studios. The big fuck-off studios with the billions and billions they make in revenue every year. It's these studios giving writers tighter deadlines, wanting to use AI to churn out more shit scripts even quicker so they can turn an even quicker profit. The writers are striking for a miriad of reasons. One of them being to allow the writers room to come back. To get original ideas back. They don't want to constantly be writing shitty reboots or redos of beloved classics. They feel the shitty feeling of having a good original script be rejected by studio after studio first hand. So all your points about why they don't deserve this attention or money, all your frustration and anger at the writers, point it at the people responsible. It's Disney, Paramount, WB etc etc all trying to turn a quick profit, taking advantage of many writers and actors who are struggling to stay above the poverty line (the richer and more well known ones are there in solidarity of the poorer less lucky ones) so get angry at the studios. The bad shows and movies that fail on the most basic level of entertainment. They're the studios fault. Because they cut corners, they make these projects by treating the working folk like crap. They want to pay extras for a days work but take a 3D scan of their body so they can use them in future movies and TV and not have to pay them anything. These studios are sneaky, bitter, spiteful creatures. Out here to just have those profit margins go up. The moment you start making things as cheap as possible, the first thing to go is quality. By getting rid of the writers room, giving writers shorter and shorter turn arounds for projects. I don't know how you could have missed all of this before uploading this rant. The writers are striking to save not just their jobs but the quality of our entertainment. The studios don't care how bad a project is or a film or show so long as people tune in anyways to watch it. It's why Star Wars' quality dropped. Because they realised they didn't have to even try in order to get people to watch it. So before you go out there saying that it's the writers fault for the quality of the work. Think about who's hiring the writers, assembling the team, what conditions their working in and why.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Yeah I was considering including a "I know the producers are at fault here too" but I did it all in one take with no script. Just wanted to record an off the cuff rant that would get people yelling at me in the comments. I agree the studios and producers are at fault, but it's the writers who claim it all starts with them. It is THEIR ideas that spark the entire thing. If we give them credit for the good then we have to give them credit for the bad. Studios have always been greedy, but this didn't stop them from making good art in the past. I'm sorry I just can't extend any sympathy to any of these people. I break my back for barely enough money to survive. And I have it way easier than most. These writers live in Hollywood and make up stories all day. It's a dream job. Even if what they make compared to the execs is unfair... compared to everyone else in the world, they're doing just fine.

[@paxton_wulgus]

@@FallopiumFilmsWriters by and large don’t care about the quality of entertainment. They’d write Fast and Furious 11 and Superhero Movie 1235 until the cows come home as long as they got paid. To assume that they want to make better projects and are being prevented from doing so by the studios is just daft. You might as well assume the studios want to make original, though-provoking art but keep hitting a wall against writers who want to make preachy, rebooted, derivative trash.

[@gringostarr69]

Well, were do you need 16 000 strikers if only few quality content is done / year?

[@pieflinger42069]

@@paxton_wulgus Accurate

[@MsRachelleDA]

You totally got me! I thought you were actually serious…or that this was seriously you being this intense. I was actually concerned for your wellbeing and thought “that poor man…he needs help” ha!

[@jefferyjeff7132]

I think we keep seeing it because all the articles are written by the “writers”

[@CCAnne]

They deserve more then I make in a few months seriously 11k a WEEK?!!

[@awz2142]

You are literally blaming writers by what is a producer issue, their work is filtered by people that seek nothing but profiting on market trends

[@paxton_wulgus]

How are writers sympathetic in this situation? They’d gladly go back to creating trash with a smile on their face if they only got some more residuals.

[@FallopiumFilms]

@@paxton_wulgus Everyone placing the blame fully on the producers is strange to me. Sure, they're greedy and often make projects worse rather than better... the execs share some of the blame in producing a bad story, but to give total immunity to the writers seems silly. They're the writers. They literally wrote the story. Studio pillaging can only do so much damage. Sometimes (but not every time) a bad story is just a bad story.

[@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging]

My issue is that they think their work deserves residuals. Like why doesn’t all work get residuals. Why only writers ? It’s because they have a stronger and more exclusive union. I want them to win only bc I want them to beat corporate America and I think all work places should have unions for obvious reasons The reason Hollywood pushes politics and identity into films so blatantly and abrasively is precisely bc we live in a system in which nothing is really done about economic issues. So they have to project (left right and center) into identity politics more and more. It’s because these people are idealists they think you change material reality with pure idealism rather than what is actually happening which is that art is a reflection of material reality (which then reflects upon itself)

[@CraftyArts]

No its because it makes money. Given the right social environment john wayne films would be the dominate force again.

[@paxton_wulgus]

@@CraftyArtsbut even when it loses money by the boatload, the studios double down on this garbage. So it’s not as simple as “it makes money.”

[@CraftyArts]

@@paxton_wulgus little mermaid made money, barbie made money, openhiemer made money, spiderverse made money, avatar made money, dune (anti colonialist "gender" swapped some characters funny how the dumbass chuds didnt notice that, guess because the movie was good) made money.

[@CraftyArts]

Also musicians get residuals andnits because these companies thanks to disney get to make money off of their work for at least a hundred years before it hits public domain. Last i checked disney and the other 8 media companies that exist are worth billions.

[@paxton_wulgus]

@@CraftyArts Batgirl was cancelled, Elemental lost money, Turning Red lost heaps of money. Same with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Strange World. Yeah sometimes woke stuff sells - it often doesn’t - and it’s still a lousy product that pushes a useless agenda. But if you despise “chuds” then I guess you’ve been conditioned to eat the slop and be happy no matter how lousy it gets.

[@FilmFactry]

but what about the children?

[@Arthur01907I]

Cause Of That We Can’t Get Stranger Things For Sooner 💀

[@alexthecatwolf]

the strikers are spoiled little babies in the bodies of celeb adults

[@yggdrasil2]

You do realize the conditions the writers are part of what leads to bad entertainment? You can be mad at undeserved attention, but when you give it as much attention yourself and for such odd reasons it really waters down your message.

[@FallopiumFilms]

So did the writers have way better conditions in the past?

[@yggdrasil2]

@@FallopiumFilms In many ways, yes. The conditions in which they are hired have been shifted in ways that aren't illegal but more cost-effective for studios in a way that makes getting valuable experience in the craft and the industry a lot more difficult than before. I'd recommend the episode the podcast No One's a Critic did on the subject of the strike.

[@darioscomicschool1111]

GOOD MOVIES - NEED GOOD WRITING!

[@hamsterbrigade]

I write and engineer software for a living. If you think poorly written software is more about the software writers than the people in charge who create priority roadmaps where "quality" is at the very bottom, i have a bridge to sell you.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Software has a sequence. It's math. Tangible. Narrative writing is about the intangible. We seemed to have lost this distinction. Most of the writing in Hollywood is formulaic now, written by people who are better suited to be writing code, thus making it even easier for them to be replaced by it (ai). We shutter at will happen when ai replaces these writers, to me it seems like it already has.

[@hamsterbrigade]

@@FallopiumFilms writing and designing software systems is as much an art as a science. My point is billion dollar markets are all falling into a "profit at all costs approach." David Ayers wrote Fury, i think that is a well written movie. He also wrote the first Suicide Squad, I think that is a terribly written movie. The studio gave him six weeks to write that script. Six weeks. Innovation is hard and risky and takes time. I feel the people in charge of these billion dollar industries have zero interest in taking any risks or spending any more money than is minimally needed. Part of the new writing model is to have the writers finish generating the season before a single show has even been filmed and then have the show runner assume writing and modification duties. A lot of the best shows of the past had their writers modify their characters as the seasons went on as the actual performances fleshed them out. The breaking bad writer even said he would not have gotten his start if it wasn't for the full season writers room model. You write something and you see what it looks like and learn what works in what medium. The producers plan is to ultimately have an extremely small writers team generate the smallest amount of episodes then have generative AI finish off the season and the show runner modify the script as needed. Do you feel that will generate better written content? That's what's going to happen if the writers lose this strike so I'm rooting for them.

[@paradoxregina]

I don't think you know who is actually striking.

[@NativeVFW]

I’m with whitey

[@jasonray3336]

These writers can't provide any good stuff, I don't watch tv any more, because the writing sucks

[@markfagohii8632]

Lmao alright dude

[@BenNuProductions]

Found a writer

[@richardbruton1224]

Literally no facts, figures, evidence. Also bud idk if you've actually watched any old media besides the godfather or other prestige projects, because let me tell you writing was NOT GOOD back then. In fact writing atleast on TV has been better then ever (after 2007 writers strike HMM). Also blame the studios for funding trash IP driven projects, writers are simply working for a check on those, and also say it with your chest, don't suck off billionare studio executives who are actually the ones responsible for the drop in quality and then say oh tee hee just a joke. Also saying a group of workers in one sector shouldn't strike because workers in another sector are getting fucked by another billionare is not a good arguement bro, how bout we just support workers getting fair compensation? Also writer earned more back then due to the structure of the terms being suited for cable TV and physical media sales, not digital streaming like today which left out the writers.

[@FallopiumFilms]

K

[@parycartoons6840]

It's really hard to feel bad for them when they call the offer of 11K a week an insult. Even as contract work goes, a month of that is more than what a lot of Americans make in a year. I'm not a huge fan of the studios either but honestly the executives, writers, and actors ALL need to work in fast food or retail for a few months. Maybe it'll give them a taste of reality.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Thank you

[@dannyknightblade4592]

I totally agree. These writers make way more than enough money already; especially being that most hollyweird movies and shows are poorly written anyway.

[@kirstyblack3432]

The people striking don't give a shit about all the lower-paid workers of the studio who don't get paid while this strike continues. camera operators, gaffers, lighting technicians, studio hands, janitors, sound and audio technicians, and many, many hundreds of other types of jobs all done in the background. they will have no health insurance, or home insurance, and can't pay mortgages. they probably had to find other work out of desperation..

[@gringostarr69]

100% agreed. If Kubric was here to see this he would laugh his as off 😂

[@michael3556]

Fucking hilarious that they're complaining about half of their guild members making the minimum guild salary which is: A. $100,00 a year B. Literally set by the guild that's striking

[@solortus]

Writers are the main problem when any type of media fail. It's always them

[@apollofell3925]

This has to be the least educated commentary I've ever come across

[@samalmond2321]

Have you stopped to consider that maybe the reason that the quality of the writers work is so subpar is because they are being given such sh**ty pay and limited time to vomit out these scripts and don't have the time or the money to justify going through it and redrafting to eliminate potential mistakes.

[@FallopiumFilms]

In the past their pay was even worse. The writing still managed to be good. Because it was written by good writers.

[@samalmond2321]

@@FallopiumFilms Doesn't excuse it though does it, I know there are other people who have it worse but rather than that being a reason for writers not to strike, I think it is a reason that more people from more job areas should do so.

[@FallopiumFilms]

@@samalmond2321 If they're gonna strike for more, they should be worth more. Many people in other job areas are actually worth more but have no means of doing anything about it. The people who can afford to act are the ones who deserve it the least. If this inspires high wages for the common man then that would be great. But it won't happen. That's how this strike is being framed: as fight against ALL corporate overlords. But it's not really about the common man. It never has been. The lowest possible pay in this industry is still twice what I make. I have no sympathy for them and I imagine I'm not alone.

[@CCAnne]

@@FallopiumFilmsI thought they get 11k a week?

[@michael3556]

The minimum salary for a WGA member is $100k a year. If you think thats shitty pay, especially for a white collar creative job, you're either delusional or rich. Either way, this is a hysterically out of touch take 🤡

[@christophercoates9]

I just find it funny these people want more money based on residuals. I liken it to a plumber coming to your house, doing their job, and then demanding residuals every day because you use the drain or toilet they fixed. It's idiotic from the most gatekeep8ng community there is in the world.

[@johnrodgers2018]

😆

[@TurnedOwl-]

All union strikes should be getting this much attention, wether or not it’s writers or other more vital professions. But that doesn’t mean writers aren’t deserving to be paid their worth, since due to streaming they aren’t getting paid the right amount for their craft.

[@CraftyArts]

Lets not forget ai and that studios are even implementing the idea of using it to replace people, when it really would serve best to replace ceos.

[@BenNuProductions]

Most unions (lobbyists) are cancer to society.

[@CCAnne]

Yea but 11k a week?

[@CraftyArts]

@@CCAnne when you are paid by contract yes. Think about how many movies and tv shows one person can work on in a year. And how long they take to develop, how many dont even get to be filmed or go beyond pitching phase.

[@anthonydennis82]

Yasss, too fucking true. You rock dude, keep fighting the good fight!

[@CraftyArts]

How do those billionaire boots taste? Bye bye

[@FallopiumFilms]

Better than the millionaire ones you've been slobbering on

[@mcbill7352]

Rightoids cope and seethe. Good luck to the strikers 💪

[@FallopiumFilms]

Honest they should use rightards. Works way better than libtard