Red Letter Media

[Mola Ram]

If that's the case then why does the majority of the stufff "advertised" by these channels get boycotted and ends up losing money?

I keep hearing "Get woke, go broke!" and "Disney is losing sooo much money!" and yet they keep producing this crap. Rings of Power was such a disaster that any reasonable entertainment company would have taken it behind the barn and shot it, and yet here we are on the verge of a second season, and to all appearances it's going to get all five that were promised.

Look: I'm not saying that the Fandom Menace types are what keeps this crap afloat. But it does keep it in the cultural conversation. It's not just a matter of catering to people who loved these franchises and are now being shit on by them; it allows the slugs who are in favor of this trash to point and say, "See! See how mad we're making the chuds! We're doing something right!" Didn't a Doomcock stand-in wind up in one of the Marvel shows? There's a weird, parasitic relationship that goes beyond mere critiquing or making fun of bad tv.

And that's where I say they're part of the problem: they are as dependent on Disney / Amazon / insert your Terrible Brand here as anyone who's getting paid by them to shill. I think the Fandom Menace types began in a very honest, sincere place, in that they felt betrayed by media creations they loved for years. But once they figured out they could build their own brands and make their own money trashing them, that became all they do. They don't use whatever influence they have to point their audiences toward better material or new creators. They just continue to create buzz around the rotten corpses of franchises that, boycotts or not, refuse to go off into the sunset and just get worse by the year.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Funny that you'd post this in a RLM thread where the entire channel is built off hate watching Star Wars, Star Trek, Avatar, Resident Evil, Baby's Day Out, etc.

Half in the Bag is far more review than hate watch.

They, more often than not, have fun during Best of the Worst

Re:view is more of a look back at films than hate watch.

Edit: And at least when they do hate watch they more often than not actually have something to say instead of just whining and crying that their favorite toy commercial has been doing the exact same shit they've been doing for a decade now.

Clearly you do since this was your original response before you edited it.

I don't give two shits about Disney or Star Wars. I got over that shit five fucking years ago like everyone else who isn't a no life fucking loser did. What bothers me is that everyone has to keep being annoying as fuck about it and bringing it up EVERYWHERE.

Sorry that you're such a mad hate watching fag that you had to respond to my post within two minutes of me posting it.

 

[#lurker]

I keep hearing "Get woke, go broke!" and "Disney is losing sooo much money!" and yet they keep producing this crap

I don't think you realize how it works. A lot of these shows get ordered for multiple seasons from day one. They are already locked in stone. Halo famously had a terrible first season where both pro-woke and anti-woke hated the show, yet it got a second season anyway because the contract was already signed. Surprise surprise when the contract ran out the show was instantly cancelled.
Rings of Power is the same.
As for Disney, they bought Star Wars for billions and have no choice but to keep throwing shit at the wall.

Half in the Bag is far more review than hate watch.
They, more often than not, have fun during Best of the Worst
Re:view is more of a look back at films than hate watch.

Do you not know what their channel was built off?

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Do you not know what their channel was built off?

I've been watching RLM longer than you.

If you honestly can't tell the difference between Fandom Menace daily hate watching bitch fests and the Plinkett reviews (let alone other RLM content that has eclipsed their start point by now), you're a fucking retard.

 

[Idiotron]

I keep hearing "Get woke, go broke!" and "Disney is losing sooo much money!" and yet they keep producing this crap.

Disney lost around 60% of their market share between March 2021 and now.
If it wasn't for Blackrock and the money they made in the past, they would be bankrupt already.
And don't tell me that Blackrock funding them is a "conspiracy" because it's the #1 shareholder of Disney, they own the mouse.
People need to realize that the projects coming out right now were greenlit pre-COVID or during the Floyd riots at the latest.
It takes a really long time to get something made in Hollywood.
The changes happening now will only see the light of day by the end of this decade.

Rings of Power was such a disaster that any reasonable entertainment company would have taken it behind the barn and shot it, and yet here we are on the verge of a second season, and to all appearances it's going to get all five that were promised.

Yeah and each new season will have half the audience of the previous one.

I'm not saying that the Fandom Menace types are what keeps this crap afloat. But it does keep it in the cultural conversation.

The days of "every publicity is good publicity" are long gone.
Look at Bud Light, everyone talks about it all the time but how does that translate to making a profit?
Not very well, the brand has been abandoned by the core demographics, probably forever.

They don't use whatever influence they have to point their audiences toward better material or new creators.

Yeah, that is a problem but that speaks more about the particular people spreading the message, not the message itself.
I've said this here before but these people aren't fans of creative ideas and good stories, they're fans of IPs and franchises.
They don't care about the indie scene or about original ideas unless something original becomes a hit.

 

[#lurker]

I've been watching RLM longer than you.

lol, lmao even.

If you honestly can't tell the difference between Fandom Menace daily hate watching bitch fests and the Plinkett reviews (let alone other RLM content that has eclipsed their start point by now), you're a fucking retard.

And if you can't see the blatant irony of crying about hate watching, in a thread about a channel that was literally built off hate watching, nobody can help you.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

about a channel that was literally built off hate watching

Dude, the Plinkett reviews are not even a percent of their total content output.

And even then, they weren't annoying and gay. What part of this don't you get?

My problem with Fandom Menace faggotry isn't the idea that it helped Disney or something. It's that it has made the whole "anti DEI" side look like a bunch of desperate no life consoomers.

 

[Tepes Thot]

I’m surprised they got on Deadpool this fast, but it seems like they’re moving back into talking about popular thing ASAP so.

I’ve heard it’s a love letter to comic fans, and it satisfied what it promised, so I don’t have a problem with a recommend (plus no TJ Miller!). I’ll see it later this week.

And yeah, I suggested a Nerd Crew to actually creatively approach the matter about reviewers they don’t like, but that time has passed. Now it would look bitter, and I honestly don’t even believe they have any unique or interesting perspective on them atp.

 

[Flexo]

The Acolyte sucks. You need to do a blow by blow for every episode? Yeah, Rings of Power pisses on Tolkien's grave. Is this episode going to be EVEN WORSE than the last one? The suspense is killing me!

Actually... yeah some of the play by play was interesting because they were somehow getting worse each time. Like you would laugh. "There's no way it can get worse. This has to be the bottom."
[Next episode]
"Well fuck me I guess."

(Nobody beats dark herald for his RoP breakdown since he would have strokes over the tolkien lore breaks.)

 

[mandatorylurk]

For as much as RLM is trying to tsk tsk other reviewers, they haven't gone as off the rails as Ya Boi Zack/Diversity and Comics has in acting like the Nerdrotics etc. are now just as bad as the comics faggots have been. There's this weird, unnecessary whiff of jealousy going around about others getting in on the grift.

 

[Tepes Thot]

For as much as RLM is trying to tsk tsk other reviewers, they haven't gone as off the rails as Ya Boi Zack/Diversity and Comics has in acting like the Nerdrotics etc. are now just as bad as the comics faggots have been. There's this weird, unnecessary whiff of jealousy going around about others getting in on the grift.

He’s God awful. I’ve bitched in the comics gate thread already, but his hypocrisy is “get this faggot a helmet, STAT” levels of retarded.

I did feel callbacks to his behavior in their takes/attitudes.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I keep hearing "Get woke, go broke!" and "Disney is losing sooo much money!" and yet they keep producing this crap. Rings of Power was such a disaster that any reasonable entertainment company would have taken it behind the barn and shot it, and yet here we are on the verge of a second season, and to all appearances it's going to get all five that were promised.

Look: I'm not saying that the Fandom Menace types are what keeps this crap afloat. But it does keep it in the cultural conversation. It's not just a matter of catering to people who loved these franchises and are now being shit on by them; it allows the slugs who are in favor of this trash to point and say, "See! See how mad we're making the chuds! We're doing something right!" Didn't a Doomcock stand-in wind up in one of the Marvel shows? There's a weird, parasitic relationship that goes beyond mere critiquing or making fun of bad tv.

And that's where I say they're part of the problem: they are as dependent on Disney / Amazon / insert your Terrible Brand here as anyone who's getting paid by them to shill. I think the Fandom Menace types began in a very honest, sincere place, in that they felt betrayed by media creations they loved for years. But once they figured out they could build their own brands and make their own money trashing them, that became all they do. They don't use whatever influence they have to point their audiences toward better material or new creators. They just continue to create buzz around the rotten corpses of franchises that, boycotts or not, refuse to go off into the sunset and just get worse by the year.

You're eventually going to see these people stop doing this because the age of cheap interest money is going away due to massive economic downturns you're going to see them cut all of the fat and focus on things that actually make money

 

[Well Intentioned]

You're eventually going to see these people stop doing this because the age of cheap interest money is going away due to massive economic downturns you're going to see them cut all of the fat and focus on things that actually make money

This is probably verging into tinfoil hat theory territory but I wonder if all these shitty properties that continue to be churned out are a way of trying to train audiences.

Someone mentioned how the first season of the Boys had a different director and he was shitcanned and the quality took a noticeable drop.

A lot of production decisions and just general filmmaking decisions seem to be doing things on the cheap, which makes sense from a keep things in the green perspective, but it seems like it's very intentional, with shit like Rings of Power getting another season, etc.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

For as much as RLM is trying to tsk tsk other reviewers, they haven't gone as off the rails as Ya Boi Zack/Diversity and Comics has in acting like the Nerdrotics etc. are now just as bad as the comics faggots have been. There's this weird, unnecessary whiff of jealousy going around about others getting in on the grift.

Seeing him virtue signal to people that don't exist is kind of funny, but sad. He has the opinions of a Gen X person that actually believed the Very Special episodes of after school TV.

 

[Akerman]

Someone mentioned how the first season of the Boys had a different director and he was shitcanned and the quality took a noticeable drop.

Feels like this has always been happening, though. Only now the cheap shitty people that replace them are super on board with DEI idpol bullshit because that comes with being a bad director these days. The competent creator/director getting canned for cost reasons after they got their initial boost of success with them is kind of what happened to Walking Dead with Frank Darabont back in the day, for example.

 

[I'm a Silly]

Feels like this has always been happening, though. Only now the cheap shitty people that replace them are super on board with DEI idpol bullshit because that comes with being a bad director these days. The competent creator/director getting canned for cost reasons after they got their initial boost of success with them is kind of what happened to Walking Dead with Frank Darabont back in the day, for example.

At a certain point it becomes impossible to discern among conspiracy, conniving, and convergent evolution.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Film threat did a slap back.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=K0qhzoFhdNM

Late but Film Threat has always been a shithead magazine ran by a shithead who was friends with and gave a platform to John K. to shit on other cartoons. Chris Gore is a massive faggot and hanger-on in the industry and should never be taken seriously. Currently, he has tricked the Critical Drinker and other YT'ers into thinking he is someone in the business.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Actually... yeah some of the play by play was interesting because they were somehow getting worse each time. Like you would laugh. "There's no way it can get worse. This has to be the bottom."
[Next episode]
"Well fuck me I guess."

(Nobody beats dark herald for his RoP breakdown since he would have strokes over the tolkien lore breaks.)

This is why I say other people are doing Best of the Worst content better than RLM. Which, as others have said in this thread, is less passionate than before. Now Fandom Menace are doing it with Disney Wars and that's why they're popular enough to get MSM MATI at them.

 

[BrunoMattei]

This is why I say other people are doing Best of the Worst content better than RLM. Which, as others have said in this thread, is less passionate than before. Now Fandom Menace are doing it with Disney Wars and that's why they're popular enough to get MSM MATI at them.

Nigga, I don't even care about Fandom Menace bullshit. Chris Gore has ALWAYS been a faggot since the inception of Film Threat in the 90's. Do your research you schmuck.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

I don't know what creative changeup could've happened to The Boys to have much of an impact, Erik Kripke has been the creator and showrunner since the start. Also has had the same three or four writers writing the bulk of the episodes.