• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    So that was Kimmel. I wished they would do the same for Colbert. But I get the feeling at this point Colbert wouldn’t accept it, and would leave anyway.

    Such a shame. What a shitshow.

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      1 month ago

      A lot of it is Kayfabe. Don’t get lulled by the performance and theater, they (the comedians, network execs and everyone else who appears on camera) are performers who have a role and they’re only there because they play that role well.

      I’m not saying they’re all “in on it” but they get marching orders, they get back-room deals to do this and that, they’re instructed by the people who control whether or not we can see them. It’s normal.

      If we were to understand just how much of our informational world (including network media) is completely scripted from the ground up to engage us in a narrative of Good Versus Evil, we would realize that we’re just in WWE theater meant to distract us from the wealthy who are consuming our world around us like locusts.

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    They cancel 20 shows to activate stagnant viewers of 2-3 of them, then they reactivate those 3 so those fervent viewers resuscribe.

    That “lose a few billion” is fake, that’s a stock market decrease, which does recover. People who actually unsubscribe come back when the shows reactivate, mostly.