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Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.
4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.
If you give a person a 4 star rating, to these companies, you are not saying “I was mostly satisfied with the service, but there’s always room for improvement”—which is what 4 stars should mean—you are voting for them to be fired.
Genuinely, do not ever give people 4 star ratings on gig service apps for any reason that is not a safety issue where their continuation on the app could seriously hurt people.
If someone gives you “just OK” service where you don’t want to give them 5 stars, but you don’t actively hate their existence and hope they die, just don’t rate them.
a series of unfortunate events is really the blueprint for characters doomed by the narrative like i think that series changed my brain chemistry forever… the title tells you how the story will end and the author repeatedly tries to warn you away but still you pick up the book. the first sentence is that it’s a tragedy and you keep reading anyway.. you read through the whole story and it’s terrible and tragic and unfortunate and then after you’ve stayed up late reading it under your covers with a flashlight, you go to your school library as soon as class is over and check out the next book in the series because you need to know what happens even though really, you already know. the end is right there in the title, it’s there in every page .. before the story even begins you know it’s a tragedy and you read it anyway and—
The ever-relevant People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn:
“Think about what we expect from the endings of stories. We expect the good guys to be “saved”. If that doesn’t happen, we at least expect the main character to have an “epiphany”. And if that doesn’t happen, then least the author ought to give us a “moment of grace”. All three are Christian terms. So many of our expectations of literature are based on Christianity— and not just Christianity, but the precise points at which Christianity and Judaism diverge. And then I noticed something else: the canonical works by authors in Jewish languages almost never give their readers any of those things. In fact, I saw that many of the canonical stories and novels in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature actually didn’t have endings at all.”
I remember when 2D faded out, the reason studios kept giving was "it's because 2D is a lot more expensive to produce". I was a child back then so I didn't think too much about it, assuming it was about the process itself, but as I grew up and learned more about art as an artist, and gained friends who were professional 3D artists themselves, I started to question it. Because 3D is very different from 2D, but it's definitely not easier or faster to make. Also, both European and Asian studios kept producing 2D animated movies
The answer was unions. The answer wasn't "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make", it was "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly"
Heyo! Animaton Industry Worker here! I'm here to provide even more context as to why this post sucks and why assumptions like this actually hurt us (Animation Workers) in the long run. (Also, all Animation (2D and 3D) *IS* unionized. That was a misinformed assumption added to this post that has no basis in reality and has been taken at face value.)
To spare your dashboards, it's all below the jump.
Anyway.
"The Day The Earth Blew Up" is a Warner Bros. Animation Studios film, which has very different production pipelines and business models compared to Disney or other animated films that you might be thinking of.
Additionally, $15 Million is actually.... pretty freaking cheap for a traditionally animated feature film, and I'm pretty sure that figure would have been a lot bigger IF THEY HAD INCLUDED MARKETING. Don't forget that marketing is a part of the budget! Remember the big movement on social media that encouraged people to go see it to make sure it sent a message to execs?
The Day The Earth Blew Up's Budget: $15 million
Total Box Office Returns: $15.1 million
Profit: $0.1 million
Verdit: Barely Broke Even. In Studio terms: a flop.
The last animated feature film from Warner Bros. Studios was "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim." Did you see that one? It was pretty good, actually. The animation and production for that film was outsourced to New Zealand, which probably offered tax breaks to the US company (ie: drove down costs for the studio).
(Fun Fact! Look up "The Hobbit Laws" in New Zealand! New and wonderful ways to undermine workers rights abroad! Hooray!)
War of the Rohirrim Budget: $30 million
Total Box Office Returns: $20.7 million
Losses: $9.3 million
Verdict: Flop
Now let's look at some Disney films! Remember, these figures aren't broken down for us, so we have to remember that MARKETING IS A PART OF THE BUDGET.
Elio Budget: $150-$200 million
Total Box Office Returns: $151 million
Losses: $0-9 million.
Verdict: Flop.
Inside Out 2 Budget: $200 million
Total Box Office Returns: $1.7 BILLION
Verdict: Success! Now do another one or you're fired!
The point I'm trying to make here is that: STUDIOS DO NOT LOOK AT MONEY THE SAME WAY WE DO. Fifteen million is pocket change and it's frankly a miracle a traditionally animated film was made with that kind of money. But if a movie does not make LITERAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, the cold, hard numbers dictate it is a failure. STUDIOS HAVE TO MAKE THAT KIND OF MONEY TO STAY IN BUSINESS. THEY ARE NOT IN IT FOR THE LOVE OF ART. Late Stage Capitalism has ruined everything, babyyyyyy! The numbers aren't real any more!
Please picture me saying this to you as gently as possible: if you don't have an accurate breakdown of where the budget goes and how entertainment is made, it's grossly misinformed to assume that you can make more movies on that same budget.
You cannot look at a big number that, to us, would be a life changing amount of money, and assume it has that same meaning to a mega-corporation that live and die on a completely different plane of existence from us. If you do not make the effort to understand the particulars of what it takes for a piece of art to exist, you are doing the entire artform and the artists who create it a disservice and contributing to the undermining of our rights in the entertainment economy.
When you understand how things work, you can:
petition and lobby for things like penalties for US companies who outsource their labor to international studios to avoid paying American union rates.
petition studios for longer on screen credits and streaming services to stop skipping them entirely.
overcome sticker shock and support independent animated pilots on crowdfunding platforms without the expectation of an entire season of fully animated 28 minute long episodes, because GOOD LORD how can you possibly do all of that on a just handful of millions???
completely revolutionize and support workers rights because you DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING AND GENUINE VALUE OF THE WORK! And then have wildly productive conversations with the workers in those industries in such a way that the glamour is stripped from studios who depend on their untouchable reputation to take advantage of uninformed newcomers to the industry!
Remember that Credits are there for a reason! The next time you watch your favorite movie or show, don't skip the credits! Look for the names of some new artists to become a fan of and directly support. They're the ones making art for arts sake!
banning trans women from the olympics is bad because they’re banning trans women from the olympics. full stop. really nothing else needs to be added to this sentence. it’s discriminatory and wrong to ban trans women from the olympics, and it would be regardless of how this might effect some cis women. why is every post about this focused on the cis women, instead of how alarmingly transmisogynistic this is?
I want people to pay very close attention to a vulnerable minority expressing how insulting and dehumanizing it is to focus how an explicit attack on them might effect other, larger or different groups than the people specifically targeted by the rules.
The idea that people are coming for you and everyone is still saying (or having to say) "Imagine, this could affect you too!" (left unsaid: "And you're a real human person."
As if it affecting Humans Of Worth needs to be established and linked to a specific and targeted attack. As if the attack isn't bad enough itself
I would like everyone to sit with "This could affect you too" and why that's used, and if it's even effective, what that means.
i just saw a post on reddit titled "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don't like the direction it's going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think "the writer is cooking but the food doesn't agree with me" should be the new "don't like don't read." dead doves may give you diarrhea but don't make that everyone else's problem.
A bloodsoaked conflict that has taken the life of so many people, palestinian and Israeli, is not something you get to pick and choose which side you want to survive.
It's not a fandom. It's not a football match that you can pick the team you support.
This is a real war, a real war that between two very real groups of people, none less deserving of peace and security than the other.
Stop contributing to the notion that Israelis and palestinians are natural born enemies who can't coexist.
The only side you should support is the side of peace.
That last comment deserves to be hung on hundred-foot-tall neon signs all over this land.
I support Israel-Palestine. A pair of sister lands, ruled by people who actually want the best for themselves and each other, rather than a handful of power-hungry pigs with no morals or even consistent principles ready to kill, torture, and imprison anyone who threatens their supremacy.
And if you find that statement abhorrent because OMG how dare I say that about Palestinians,
1) that's you projecting, because I very explicitly said "a handful" of people and
the thing is like. i know plenty of poor americans that really did join the military because it was "the only option" but its important to recognize that even among those people its not actually the only option. you can just be poor. they made the choice to kill people so they could advance their own societal position. thats still evil
I get your point I really do but what you don't understand is these are children. When I met my first military recruiter It was in my school and I was 11 years old. For the next 6 years until I graduated I was consistently followed and harassed into joining the military. Recruiters are allowed to lie to you boldface about anything and they do regularly. I've watched kids be convinced in based off the idea they would be getting an office job only to get deployed in a combat position.
I was in sports so it got worse also. The marines actively helped fund my school wrestling team and at least once a year for four years they were brought in to run a practice. A two hour long practice in which they would work us until we were vomiting (I did every time) then they would spent about half an hour trying to recruit us in that state, like getting us to sign papers. These are people aged 14-17. All of our coaches would be there and encourage us to join.
The type of poverty I knew kids to be in when I was first meeting recruiters (11-13 age group) was the type of poverty you die in. Bodies found in trailers type beat. Most people I knew were already in government housing due to just being that poor. These are children who come from families of people who can't work at all. Who are all on benefits. Maybe MAYBE they could have found another way out but how can you be sure? Can you expect children to be able to make that choice? Do you think a 11 year old (again the youngest I was allowed to put my name down) can grasp what it means to be sent to another country to kill people? Would you kill someone so your family wouldn't starve to death? Can you expect a 17 year old to make that choice?
The government is actively lying and manipulating desperate children to get them into the military. I think this is far more gray than all soldiers are evil. This is a larger system whose job it is to take advantage of vulnerable people so that they can send them off to harm even more vulnerable people. Soldiers just don't seem like they should be the focus. The real problem is the system building them.
But who do you help by focusing your efforts on spreading hate to veterans and soldiers? You aren't doing any real work to stop a system that manipulates and kills children. Most military personnel aren't actively killing people. My family is a military family and for generations their whole job has been disarming bombs. Not sending them or building them. They were the squad who disarmed them, mostly in foreign countries. Is that the exact same as the soldier who shoots a man between the eyes? Who do you even help by equating them?
These are institutions that are behind all of this. Poverty is built in America to force these people into doing the bidding of the rich. Into fighting their wars and making their money. Who is helped by hating the desperate poor?
the thing is like. i know plenty of poor americans that really did join the military because it was "the only option" but its important to recognize that even among those people its not actually the only option. you can just be poor. they made the choice to kill people so they could advance their own societal position. thats still evil
Oh my god, I am not a marxist, but maybe you guys should learn a few things from him, because for all his flaws the guy really did point to the fact that actions of evil are an inevitable result of a larger system and not of the sins of a few individuals.
I don't know how to break this to you. But ''just being poor'' isn't that simple for people who have a family. especially when we talk extremely poor, not just lower middle class. I don't know how to break this to you. But not everyone has been blessed with a leftist education on why the US military is bad. Most people who enlist are propagandized 18 year olds that genuinely think are doing good.
And I am not arguing there is nothing iffy about joining the military but as long as you guys continue to talk like puritan evengelical christians you are not preventing anyone from joining, bcs you lecture them from a perspective they can't afford to have.
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