@opal @lain @sun no I'm saying that ESG (and DEI, too) are being used to control the flow of capital, so that anyone who wants funding must bake ESG into their product and make shitty social justice propaganda instead of art. That effects bigger players like hollywood the most, but much of the rest of the market as well.

I can't wait for Hollywood to wither away and leave room for competition. They did it to themselves by falling for ESG, and the ESG strategy is a self-defeating downward spiral for those who adopt it. This is because it makes investors and activists your audience instead of paying customers. A business whose main income strategy is attracting investment instead of selling products, is called a ponzi scheme.

>but i don't understand why you care about the media market

I care about it because, although Hollywood was always corrupt and commie-leaning, at least they still made a lot of good stuff. The past decade's managed decline means that most of the media on the market sucks, and I do think part of the reason for that is to demoralize people into depression and black-pilling, and get them to consent to economic/cultural/spiritual decline, and "sunset" themselves, going over the cliff.

I agree that new-tech smaller players will inherit the market when Hollywood runs our of OPM (other people's money), but in the meantime they're filling the space with garbage, taking much of the oxygen. And they use their influence to demonize any indie success as "far-right" and "problematic". The salt over Palworld was insane.