The NHS will prescribe utrogestan to perisex women for reasons caused by low progesterone such as fatique, night sweats, suicidal ideation increase, and more. Yet, when this comes to intersex women, they refuse to offer the same prescription on the NHS forcing the intersex woman to go private, even when it is medically necessary for the intersex woman. - it's a discriminatory practise.
So... help an intersex girl out so she CAN get necessary medication privately?
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How did you calculate the estimation of how much each Helluva Boss costs to make?
I should clarify that my estimation for the cost and income of the series is extremely generous. The pricing for YouTube views can be as high as $0.05 per view which would increase Medrano's income by 46%, though that is something reserved for only exceptional creators. It's less money for YouTube in that case, and her sporadic uploading schedule would make such a deal undesirable for Google.
If you were to ask me how much I actually think the episodes cost, it would be closer to $500k. However, there are multiple factors I considered when I came to my generous(?) estimate.
Firstly, I looked into how much it cost to make a professional animated episode such as Rick and Morty, which is between $1.2 and $1.5 million per episode. To be honest, I think there are some episodes of Helluva Boss, specifically Truth Seekers, that cost at least near that threshold.
Which it should be noted that Rick and Morty should actually cost less than Helluva Boss due to the style the shows are animated in. Rick and Morty reduces the labor needed for their animation and thus costs by utilizing rigging in their animation, save for select scenes. Medrano pushes her animators to draw nearly every frame by hand. At least she did for the earlier episodes.
The fact that the animation has been declining has not been lost on watchers. And this is the second factor I took into account: Medrano's attitude towards animators and the cost of animation. We saw this during the Hazbin debacle where they ran out of money for the series in the final episode. Which is something we really need to interrogate. A24 is not known for expensive advertising, in fact, they often rely on social media and word of mouth which keeps the budget for a project low.
For example, Elemental was a financial disaster for Disney despite making back the budget for the movie, that's because they spent another several million for their ad campaign which ironically turned audiences away from the film. That counts towards the performance of a movie and a series.
If A24 was unwilling to go over budget for the last episode of the series to be made, her niche form of advertising her streaming cartoon series on a historical theatre marquee in Hollywood was not something they would have shelled out the extra thousands for. Which means the money most likely came from the initial budget for the show. And between paying animators and having a marquee (which to mind you the theatre never had a showing of Hazbin in the building, it was solely for advertising), she chose the marquee. Paying cleanup artists the equivalent of $4 an hr to make her series.
And it needs to be said, that sort of advertising is a waste. Like crypto bros buying ad space in Time Square for their NFTs, this sort of advertising doesn't actually draw in new audiences, but, in the words of Dan Olsen:
"All it's good for is internal propaganda. Making insiders feel like the money that they've spent is buying credibility."- Chapter 5: The Unbearable Cringe of Crypto
We also know that Medrano has a penchant for hiring animators fresh out of college, self-taught with no professional experience or references, and fans. This means she finds people who don't know the value of their work and are easier to exploit, or are simply so sycophantic and blinded by social media clout that they agree to work for what amounts to exposure.
As such, I significantly low-balled the cost of every episode to show just how rough things are going financially. But there is an aspect I didn't touch: Patreon.
Add to her income average of $375k from episodes and Medrano can absolutely afford to pay $500k per episode as I actually suspect she does. However it is still clear she is losing money in regards to merch and has had to change manufacturers and how she stocks her store.
It's estimated she makes about $5k a day through her Patreon, which is $150k-$200k a month. It's also worth noting others have pointed out that she has significantly increased the cost of her Patreon tiers, and the massive drops at the start of the month with the gradual rise are members dropping said memberships and rejoining throughout the month, going up and down tiers. She's squeezing the Patreon crowd the most, as that is her actual fanbase.
The reason I low-balled the cost was to simplify the maths involved and highlight how the show itself is not cutting it to keep Medrano's business model afloat. Obviously when we expand the scope, numbers get larger and more moving pieces come to light. But the merch must first come from Medrano's own income, and we know she first cuts her animators before risking her own income. So she has decided to take the money from her audience in the form of merch quality rather than take a haircut from her lifestyle.
Ironically, she makes and keeps more money when she isn't pushing new merch.
hey guys, I have had A Day™️ and I’ve not written todays october prompt yet. It’s only 8.20pm and I’m hoping I’ll be able to pull something out my ass before midnight but if I don’t I’m very very sorry!
Dude, one thing I love about being single is being able to just spend my money. I'm not even talking about controlling relationships. I think if you're sharing money and/or bills large purchases should be discussed. Hell, apparently even Ryan Reynolds as wealthy as he is got in trouble recently for purchasing a football (soccor) team without telling his wife. But I don't have to do that shit and I like that the only thing I consult before a purchase is my own money anxiety.
All this to say I spent a gobsmacking amount of money today. Mostly it was paying the middle of the month bills but I did spend $100 on cat stuff (mainly a water fountain to encourage water intake and prevent future UTIs), and I did semi-impulse* buy a Roomba for another $100. That's all after having to spend a bunch of money at the vet, which I did eventually take the kitten to. I tapped into my savings for some of it to ease the blow but tried to pay most of it straight out of my account. At some point in the month money will be tight** but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
*I say semi-impulsive because I've been saying I needed to replace my current one that's probably close to seven years old because the battery isn't good and it doesn't seem to work as well as it use to and I'm tired of pet hair everywhere. But then Woot had one for $100 (normally $250) today which was just too good to pass up even though it wasn't on my immediate purchase list
**By "tight" I mean I'll probably be near my low balance alert which is pretty high, exactly so that money is never really dangerously low
Listen I like shitpost blogs as much as the next person but if you’re willing to pay someone to do dumb shit like eating pencils or whatever please consider spending that money on literally any of the thousands of paypal/signal boost posts of people needing legitimate help
Wow look who’s back I need some help. My wacom tablet fucking broke and the most decently priced one I can find is still like $65. So good lord help me, I’m making another gofundme as this seems to have been an efficient way to get help money-wise before.
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