#Streaming platforms

[nugothrhythms]

Just one more reason to not use Spotify -_-

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[cbrownjc]

I hope this is true. Because it would just be so in line with deciding to be so cartoonishly evil in public right before SAG was set to go on strike as well. A union that really has the power to shut down the whole industry and make them lose astronomical amounts of money per day.

All that Deadline article probably did was make SAG more emboldened to get everything they're asking for and not extend the deadline again.

[coolmaycroft]

So, on Anthony Garmuglia's latest video, he exposits that the live action Lilo & Stitch was a success was because it was a big box office family movie in a time when there were no other family movies.

The death of the family movies and comedies is what made Lilo & Stitch succeed. Family movies used to be a genre: the bulletproof nanny's and Tooth Fairies in training were what parents would take their kids to see on a weekend.

Now yadda yadda late stage capitalism, but Anthony also mentions how the switch to streaming has almost made family entertainment barren as well. Without scheduled TV and commercial slots there is no need to break down demographics by the hour and day, which allowed shows to get more experimental.

[pixiatn]

Streaming Platforms: Please don't pirate our shows🥺 thats illegal🥺 you're not supporting us🥺 we need the money🥺

Also streaming platforms: *Removes their most successful and popular animated shows which were probably the only reason you got the platform and now there's literally no legal way to watch the shows you want*

[scrumptiousstuffs]

So, out of curiosity - people who have access to IQiYI and Gaga - is the THK version in that platform any different than YT?

[greatrunner]

Colorism finally came for John Stewart 🫠

So, a week or two ago, I found out DC and HBO Max were producing a Green Lantern series. I knew only because I happened to be googling something about Kyle Chandler at the time.

I was like, "Cool, cool. He's definitely gonna be playing Hal Jordan, bc DC is forever trying to make Hal Jordan a thing." Maybe his casting is meta-commentary on the fact the character is an old hat/guard compared to the number of Black and Brown lanterns we have nowadays. (Y'know, bc the bulk of Chandler's career peak was the '90s and the 2000s.)

(DC, stop neglecting my mans, Kyle Rayner ;_;)

It's basically the buddy cop concept they pitched as a film in the 2010s when everyone was still demanding a John Stewart movie (and lamenting that we got Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan instead). But apparently, instead of a comedy, they wanna make it akin to True Detective. I think.

Which is.... a choice.

That said, it never once occurred to me that they wouldn't cast a dark-skinned Black Man to play John Stewart. Like, the choices are bountiful and that's a hard thing to fuck up. Stewart is the negroest of negros. The boilerplate standard on which all comic book negros are built on. Mans is the Steve Ken Doll.

So, I was a bit taken aback by the fact that the dude from The Underground Railroad was cast as Stewart. So much in fact that I kinda closed out the article and promptly forgot.

Blk TikTok, however, had some things to say; most of it was everything I felt but didn't want to voice. Bc it goes without saying this particular actor is Stewart's antithesis, one his comic creator (Neal Adams) made a point of pushing against when DC execs wanted Stewart to be "light brown".

The light eyes, the fair skin. This choice communicates a specific message to the general audience in extremely troubling ways. More so because of how hypervisible the subject of colorism in the streaming platform era has become, and what it means that he accepted this role at all.

Clearly, this is a business move on his part. He's currently pushing to make it big with the release of Rebel Ridge on Netflix, Black women across the diaspora are fawning over him (which means they'll watch anything with him in it), and this'll platform him for other major projects.

A video behind the cut says a lot of what I'm saying a little more eloquently, backed with comic book history. He argues that this isn't the actor's fault. Me? He made himself complicit when he accepted the role, so he earns every bit of criticism about this situation.

But, overall, I'm disheartened.

[local-lover-boy]

😭 yall I think I finally sorted out my Spotify stuff. Cuz like I changed my artist name through my distributor n that creates a new artist profile on Spotify and all my music was moved to it but I couldn't access the Spotify for artists for it (the behind the scenes stuff) and trying to fix it was so frustrating I almost started crying lol bc all the Spotify articles said there's nothing they can do and u have to talk to your distributor and the company I'm signed up w, all of their articles said they can't do anything and you have to talk to Spotify, and I eventually contacted someone in Spotify who could help and they sent it to someone higher up but before that I had to talk to 2 bots and I was losing it like omg let me talk to a real person plz anyways hopefully that worked and I can get my shit together but I have to do that for literally every streaming platform and it's different for each of em I am going crazy

[sp1nnenlilie]

saw that u had problems with streaming sports? f1streams100.com is ok. it does disconnect sometimes but better than nothing, i suppose.

im currently using f1bite.net (even though it keeps getting taken down)

But i will try ur recommendation next race i love singapore i cant miss it

[nugothrhythms]

I am absolutely devastated by this news. Bandcamp's former workers and indie musicians will all be negatively impacted by this. I hope a new platform arises from this, but until then, many people's sources of income will be in limbo. My page focuses on goth music, but I hope that indie musicians and music fans of all genres come together during this time.

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[milesconure]

So today I saw the post about streaming services and how better DVD's are and like, it's something I'm so angry about! I hate that if you want to legally watch things nowdays, you need to subscribe to millions of different streaming services and even then you have NO GUARANTEE that the thing you want to watch will be there. For example, since my brain decided to make The Freemaker Adventures my special interest I often rewatch this show for fun, when I need comfort or when I need fanfic ideas. When season 1 first came out, I watched it fully in TV, but then I switched to the internet. But like. Back then I was a kid so I only watched on not legal sites and even when Disney+ appeared, I didn't have money... obviously. So when I noticed that The Freemaker Adventures was disappearing from those sites, I instantly bought the DVD and it was amazing decision, because I love DVD's and the vibe around it and thanks to that I have not only original version of the show, but also Polish dub. Now I don't think Polish dub is that good, but it has its charm and I love the voices for the characters and it gives me nostalgic feelings, because when I first watched the show, it was with Polish dub. And then season 2 started to come out and problems appeared. I didn't really have that much time to watch it in the TV so I just watched it in the internet, again, on not legal websites and it was fine. But then the episodes started to disappear from those sites. So the logical thing to do was to buy a DVD of season 2, right? Well yeah... if it actually appeared in Poland! But no, they didn't make DVD with Polish dub and I literally couldn't buy it, even though other countries like USA got it. And so I began to think, what will happen if it simply disappears from the internet? The whole season 2 was once on official Lego YouTube, but it disappeared before I had a chance to download it. Then I found out that they deleted it probably because it was put on Disney+. Now, I didn't really have Disney+, but my sister gave me password to her account. And I went there and surprise, surprise, Freemakers aren't even there! Like bro! Congratulations! They literally make us pay for every shit and then they don't give us that shit. Listen, I get that the Freemakers aren't popular, but if that's the case, they could just let Lego upload the episodes again, because who cares? Why freaking delete them everywhere?? Luckily, I know that I can still watch it on some websites if I search hard enough. But I actually managed to get the whole season 2 on my pendrive. It's not in the best quality, but hey! It's there! I have it and nobody can take it away from me (I will bite if someone tries). But if I wanted to watch it in better quality or with Polish dub, it's not possible for me. Polish dub literally doesn't exist anymore. You can't find it anywhere! And DVD? Like I said, it never came out in Poland. Which sucks, because I recently saw the menu of the DVD and it looked GORGEOUS. I guess I like to pay attention to details like that. But yeah. Streaming services is something I'm never going to be not salty about-

[dichotomoustessellations]

Cashlin on streaming platforms

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[gbhbl]

The day has arrived! SABATON is excited to announce that the band’s highly anticipated animated film 'The War To End All Wars – The Movie' is now available on video streaming services including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and YouTube Movies!

[greatrunner]

"[...]Streaming TV's blank-check era—which ran roughly from Netflix's introduction of its first original shows in 2013 to 2022, when Netflix reported its first big dip in subscribers just as a long era of low-interest lending was coming to an end—used to give shows a ton of runway and plenty of seasons to tell their stories. Shows like Orange Is the New Black or BoJack Horseman that found some modicum of critical acclaim and ratings success tended to get renewed multiple times, and six or seven-season runs were common. [...]Those days are mostly gone now (except perhaps at Apple TV+, which continues to leverage its parent company's deep pockets to throw gobs of money at any actor or IP with a moderately recognizable name). In the two years since TV streamers began cutting back in earnest, industry analysts have observed a consistent trend toward shorter seasons of fewer episodes and fewer renewals for existing shows. Those trends hit at the exact wrong moment for The Wheel of Time, which was constantly straining against the bonds of its eight-episode seasons. It's impossible to say empirically whether longer seasons would have made for a better show, and whether that "better show" could have achieved the kind of word-of-mouth success it would have needed to meet Amazon's expectations. But speaking anecdotally as someone who was just beginning to recommend the show to people who weren't hardcore book readers, the density and pacing were two major barriers to entry. And even the most truncated possible version of the story would have needed at least six or seven seasons to wrap up in anything resembling a satisfactory way, based on the pace that was set in the first three seasons."