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All this also seems to be ignoring the more obvious reason that Louis is doing this because he doesn't want people to find out that he's still doing a mix of alt-right and "kids these days" jokes, after he got mocked for a few days last time. That's the reason for no notes. If he was just worried about bootlegs or joke theft, YouTube copyright is probably more than capable.
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Yeah, you guys are really over thinking it since it's just Louis C.K. for now. He doesn't want people reporting on his dumbass "kids these days" old man jokes or any alt-right poo poo he says after he got mocked last time. That's almost certainly it. The issue of the sanctity of open mic night is a different issue that I don't think there's too much disagreement about. Other than the fact that comedians sometimes want to treat it as obnoxiously sacred, and not just a practice night.
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Judakel posted:It does. If you want to give a "report" on what topics you heard, you can do that from memory. Not many people can memorize a lovely joke live, word for word, and then remember it for the length of the set and the drive home. He doesn't want quotes of his lovely jokes coming out. If he could make reporters/people sign NDAs he would.
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I mean, I'm talking about the finished routine about how he wished the Stoneman Douglas kids would chill out and stop complaining and a bunch of old man poo poo. Did you miss all of that? There seems to be a straight line connecting them. Also, we're talking about his regular shows in Toronto. Not an open mic night. Which again, is different. I hope he's not charging full price for 5 nights of unfinished material.
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I wonder how much better off Louis C.K. would be now if his first film back didn't have a synopsis that read like a defense of Woody Allen. Skimming the plot, I know it's more complicated, but it wasn't a good look.
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Since this is still going, apparently, I love the idea that since Louis' material is always evolving on tour and never finished, even when he's doing a series of heavily marketed shows, that we can never criticize it or the base concepts behind it. Louis on his deathbed will utter the final version of his act, and only then can we say "not great, I guess/I liked his earlier stuff." Nobody steal this concept before I get my spec script in to the Twilight Zone.Skwirl posted:I don't have a good definition for what a proper apology should have been after being publicly outed for sexual harassment and honestly, probably assault, but what ever it is he sure as gently caress didn't do it. I've always wondered how we'd handle someone coming back into the fold. So far, most sex pests have either tried to ghost and come back or just double down, so "gently caress off" has worked just fine as a general strategy. I don't know that we've seen much in the way of genuine self-reflection, apology and comeback. I guess Dan Harmon would count (not sure what the general consensus is), but that case didn't seem to get as much press to start with, I don't think.
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I'd be interested in a real count on how much he lost. He's down for a half year or year of touring and some of the better venues are cut off, but I don't know how much cash is really in stand-up, compared to TV and movies. His movie basically got canned, but it wasn't exactly going to be a blockbuster. Missing his shot at high art hurts, but I don't think it's a given that I Love You, Daddy would be an award winner. I thought it hurt Horace and Pete, but it looks like I hosed up the date. He held onto some of his executive producer spots which I think still counts for some small piece of the action, even if he was practically cut off from production. He lost some money but I imagine that if he can stabilize his tailspin for a minute with an alright set of shows Netflix will hand him a briefcase full of cash, if he wants it, and that seems to be where the big money is right now. It brings up the problem we've seen with other offenders. Even if they're successfully "canceled" they still get to go home to their swimming pool of gold or maybe even get as many smaller side projects as they want the second no one is looking.
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The article I found covering Dan Harmon's apology pointed out the additional insidious damage that the harassment also made Megan Ganz lose all faith in her writing ability for years since she assumed that she was just hired because he wanted to have sex with her. The damage runs so deep with this stuff.
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If nothing else the mass deleting makes it pretty clear that he's got something to hide. I hadn't seen the Bynes tweets before. I've seen several people, even goons, say that there's nothing wrong with asking for kids' feet pictures or having a weird focus on feet on his shows, and that we're the ones who are being sick by assuming its something twisted.
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It's thankfully still just a fringe bit of awfulness, but the slow turn to try and line up Sandusky's abuse as a bunch of lies and recovered memories is stunning given how clear the case was. One of the times where reality just doesn't seem to matter to some people.
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Oct 28, 2019 23:57
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The Republicans figured out that if they just do a bad thing and power through it that there aren't any real consequences. It doesn't necessarily mean that the Democrats/the left shouldn't still try to hold themselves to a higher standard. Even if the Katie Hill case is on the lower end of the scale.
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There were a lot of random stories and anecdotes just kind of around. I know We Hate Movies had somebody write in about a month or so before that Twitter thread sharing a story of Goldblum being a creep to their 17-year-old (I think) sister after some event. Just nothing that really breaks the surface in this day and age. Mostly stories of Goldblum ogling young women and being openly horny. So, who knows if there's more  . Nothing big or organized that I know of.
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Although, I admit I lost the thread on the Depp case awhile ago, but wasn't it as simple as his side mostly being crickets and Heard just taking the narrative. I didn't follow it at the start and it's hard to tell now, but as soon as the tape came out most people pretty much flipped around on it and it's been fairly consistent from there. So yeah, a case of NDAs and lawyers settling it in Heard favor due to Depp's problems and her snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I guess.
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It's hard to say for sure, but one read on the situation is that the second movie was bad enough that the studio was able to force J.K. to let the main movies' big screenwriter join as a co-writer for 3. So the second movie and Rowling current reputation is spooking the studio at least. But yeah, Rowling basically wrote Fantastic Beasts 2 as a very messy book and then just sort of awkwardly formatted it into a movie. The really, stupidly long flashback in the tombs in particular stands out as one of those big reveal chapters that wedges itself into a book right before the climax. Except it's a movie so, you know, it's just a bunch of characters awkwardly standing around for exposition. There's a lot like that, but that one in particular stands out. I saw it because my nieces wanted to see it and they liked the spectacle of it, but boy was it a mess. As far Depp, it looks like his career might recover. I'd personally hope that he's getting himself sorted out, since the alcoholism (regardless of the cause/contributing factors) was also burning a lot of bridges and probably burning himself out hard. I don't know if you can trust the rumors from the set for the last Pirates movie, but I think they were ready to ditch him regardless if he was really showing up aggressively drunk every day.
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It also feels like we're getting kind of straying from the point, since while I'm sure there were people calling for his head, the herd of cats seemed to mostly just want him to admit that he was being a creep and step away from trying to be a front and center male ally. The reason it stayed a story at all was that you had another self-proclaimed ally showing off his #TimesUp button in public, and then at best, treating women like poo poo in private. The worst I remember toward "canceling" was a few people pointing out that his show would be super awkward now since it focused so much on dating (I have no idea if that's true, never really watched it). There was also a push for more talking about affirmative consent, but that just got buried by all the people screaming that it was just a bad date. If anything the big problem was a lot of people doing this dumb "Oh, so you want him jailed for life huh!" poo poo when most people just want the barest accountability. It's the same poo poo as in the Kavanaugh hearing. No, I don't want to ruin his life, I just don't think he should become literally one of the most important people in the country.
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It does seem strange that Heard's sister recanting her testimony didn't sink the case, unless I'm missing something. Either the judge got a lot of information that didn't make it out to the public or he took a really weird stance on it. And yeah, I was wondering about the judgment since it's usually really easy to win a libel case in England.
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The fairer comparison would be why hasn't the media covered scandals at Roosterteeth or Funhaus or one of the many other YouTube channels that had scandals and probably similar viewership. It's a smaller number of people who care and the people who care probably aren't reading much "mainstream" media anyway. It's easy to fire out an article bemoaning Netflix canceling another show, it takes work to put together an accusation. I don't know how big Patriot Act really got, personally it feels like it just came and went. The lack of details isn't helping either and there's not a clear point to jump in. If it was "just" a toxic workplace then it's going to be easy for people to just dismiss it as a stressful Hollywood environment and move on. Ellen had details along with a long history of rumors about how terrible she was, even if it hadn't cracked the mainstream line. As soon as anyone cared to look all they had to do was find one of those long tweet threads where comedians took turns telling Ellen stories. Then you just keep digging. And the fact that it's already been canceled doesn't help. When there's no real answer or punishment possible it tends to take the wind out of people's sails.
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In a weirdly fitting thing I can't find a good writeup because it mostly broke through communities and Twitter, and since I was more of an occasional watcher too I'm not too sure. I just saw the fallout in the Youtuber thread here when it happened. This was the best quick summary I could find without diving into a few Reddit threads. It's hard because it emerged from a 4Chan/8Chan thing. https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/10/adam-kovic-ryan-haywood-rooster-teeth-scandal/ Adam Kovic from Funhaus and Ryan Haywood from Roosterteeth had a bunch of nudes and files get leaked, which apparently feed into or verified some general rumor that Haywood was creeping on underaged fans. There were a few accusations, I think, although the main one said he thought she was 18. Either way not good to creep on fans and he got dumped pretty quickly. This has been a recurring problem with YouTubers so people are pretty ready to tell stars doing this to go away. Kovic's was a lot fuzzier from what I remember. I'm not sure how much they wanted to dig either. Apparently his nude leaks included some bad pictures, like one of him jacking off on a coworker's keyboard, taking nudes and having sex at the office and seemingly taking pictures or a video of his partner without her knowledge. Plus once the knives were out a lot of stuff seemed to leak that he was genuinely a lovely, toxic person just in general.
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It's a Daily Mail exclusive, apparently. Supposedly it is coming from Depp's lawyers. Daily Mail's reputation aside, I assume they wouldn't just make up the lawyers' saying it or forge their own documents. Might not be verified, but it is the latest turn. So grain of salt, yada, yada, yada. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9118921/Johnny-Depp-accuses-Amber-Heard-taking-7M-settlement-lying-giving-charity.html
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I'd also read the fourth exchange in the tweet as iffy although it's hard to tell with text. "Will you give it to me tomorrow? Don't forget that you are mine" "That topic...once again? It is very intense." "I'm intense. I need your blood." Kind of reads like he hassles them into playing along. I've heard of other relationships where some really lovely/outright abusive behavior gets hidden as just part of being kinky. Which just takes us back to the point where hopefully the shock of a celebrity into blood/maybe cannibalism stuff doesn't overshadow a look into whether he was actually being manipulative or abusive. Not exactly hopeful though, when you've got a literal if it bleeds it leads.
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I didn't want to keep feeding the derail, but if you want to be mad about the school resource officer push, there was a resource officer at Columbine and it didn't really help since shockingly most school shootings don't start with the officer in a tactical position with his gun draw behind the shooter. Also unless the school's in the middle of nowhere it doesn't take too long to roll cop cars there, usually it'd be just as fast as the cop inside physically getting where he needs to be.quote:At 11:22 a.m., a custodian called Deputy Neil Gardner, the assigned resource officer to Columbine, on the school radio, requesting assistance in the senior parking lot. The only paved route took him around the school to the east and south on Pierce Street, where at 11:23 a.m., he heard on his police radio that a female was down, and assumed she had been struck by a car. While exiting his patrol car in the senior lot at 11:24, he heard another call on the school radio, "Neil, there's a shooter in the school."[90]
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Alan Smithee posted:okay I just noticed the date but somehow that story got like no traction I heard it mentioned offhand when people were talking about that trainwreck of a movie. The problem is that there's not much of a point to it. Awareness only matters if the targets or the potential future audience are capable of feeling shame. Given all the other dumb edgy stuff they did for the movie they'd probably love the "cancel culture" attention anyway.
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On top of that, PornHub getting blacklisted by the credit card companies has also apparently been horrific for the independent models trying to hang on. Their pay-per-video site, ModelHub, was apparently way more popular than I would have guessed. Porn model twitter has all pretty much said that ModelHub basically being down cut their income in half. The loyal audience of people paying to watch a lady pop balloons or eat gummy bears can't pay for it through PornHub anymore and apparently just gave up rather than follow them anywhere else.
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I think when it came up the last time, it was that Peewee just legit loved porn and collecting it. Bizarrely, it lent credence to the story that he wasn't even jacking off at the theater. That he really was just interested in experiencing porn on a big screen, because he just loved porn that much. But supposedly vintage porn basically gets sold as giant stacks of photos and cutouts, and then you go through it and sort it. When you're not collecting old playboys the record keeping gets way sketchier and you're almost certainly going to wind up with underage material. But yeah, they supposedly asked and the vendors he bought from swore he never asked for it. I mostly remember it because of a standup comedian's joke from the time that came up. "They arrested Peewee at the theater. Now they've taken all his porn. Where IS he allowed to jack off?"
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AlternateAccount posted:At a certain strata of executive leadership, it’s exceptionally hard to just shitcan someone without jumping through a lot of hoops or outright criminal convictions. Don't have a source since I just saw it from posted screencaps, but somebody reported scuttlebutt that he managed to embarrass executives at Sony for not catching anything from the podcast. Apparently there were a few awkward meetings. So like always he ended up punished because he managed to kick poo poo uphill. The only interesting thing is whether he's really staying on as EP or if he'll quietly step down in a few months. For what it's worth Jennings did a James Gunn and has already done a few apologies for his old edgelord tweets and I don't think he's said anything that stood out in a while. Says that he left them up to keep him honest about his old mistakes .
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DeimosRising posted:Because if she’s going to go at him with both barrels why is he caving? He won the court case, what’s his motivation? I assume that she/her lawyer is still pushing because he kind of pulled this poo poo once before. There was a whole rush of headlines promising that he was stepping down, then a big backtrack. If they're smart they keep up the pressure until the ink's dry on any deal.
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It's all tied together since it was a reaction to the rush of everyone jumping in front of one another to proclaim how big of a fan they were of Norm and what a wonderful person he was. This is also an annoying thing that happens when someone dies. Suddenly everyone was their biggest fan or closest friend. I saw one of the women mentioned in this thread point out that they only voiced their experience because it was just too much to see days of people insisting that he was a wonderful person. And they co-signed that it was fine if people like his comedy and were going to miss him. He was pretty talented and funny. He just also did some bad poo poo and people excused him of it and that kind of sucks too.
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Aziz also mainly took flak because he made being a big feminist ally part of his identity. Then it turns out he's got chronic porn brain and is trying to fish hook women. As far as I remember from the last time it came up, I think one of the only ones that counts for genuine apology and return would be Dan Harmon. Everybody else either just barrels through it or disappears.
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The Smollet stuff feels like a lifetime ago and I don't have it in me to re-research it, but even if you drift away from ACAB it doesn't seem that out there to think that they just ran with their crazy theory and did whatever they could to make it work. The whole thing is sketchy as gently caress and sounds the same as every true crime story of the cops railroading somebody. Even if they're right, they didn't get there honestly. Off the top of my head, the idea that Smollet got beat up by his trainer in some personal dispute, reported it before he realized what was going on and got stuck makes just as much, if not more, sense and yet it barely got considered because the cops already had their idea that he was playing the race card/attention seeking. Parakeet vs. Phone fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Dec 1, 2021 |
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Skwirl posted:It gets loving cold in Chicago. Yep. hosed me up for a second once turning a corner and seeing a huge dude walking toward me in one, until I registered that I probably wasn't going to get mugged in the afternoon by a dude in an orange and blue star ski mask. I usually got by with a scarf wrap and a hoodie, which I guess isn't that different.
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History Comes Inside! posted:News isn’t the only form of media that exists.  Also, like, there's a first time for everything. For most of my life I only ever saw people occasionally wearing them for winter sports stuff. Then, bam, Great Lakes area winter and you see a few people just rocking them on the sidewalks.Since I feel bad for the derail, I'd note that for me this was a weird reminder about how we're kind of stuck relying on iffy institutions and the media to help fill blank spots and form narratives. Which at least feels relevant to the thread topic.
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Also just taking a wild swing from memory, but I don't think that many people cared about the movies and I don't think he featured much in the ads. I have vague memories of it just being the women with a girls' trip vibe. Whereas this time people won't shut up about the obviously planned Pelaton thing. Those headlines were everywhere with his picture.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:...is anyone meant to be surprised by this? Yeah, I can't say I've ever heard the rumor directly but I guess it must have been floating around for awhile. I know it's a little  , but Hitman: Blood Money had their Not Hugh Hefner doing it.
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It's also kind of annoying because "A judge says X, that means no one can believe otherwise" is kind of a terrible thing to push. I get the argument, but I also remember a lot of reporting at the time being surprised by the judgment . And at some point you're getting into Sorkin-style "OJ Simpson is 100% innocent because the system said so" stuff.
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Huh, that's a hell of an article. It does seem like he didn't take the advice of all the expensive help he sought out if he's making statements like thisquote:“Before the love scene began on March 25,” said the questioner, “our intimacy coordinator suggested where you both should put your hands. It has been brought to our attention that you said, ‘This is absurd!’” “Yes,” I said, “I did. And I still think so.” It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity. Toward the end of our conversation, she suggested that I not contact the young lady, the intimacy coordinator, or anyone else in the company. “We don’t want to risk retaliation,” she said. When I mentioned that it was certainly not my intention to… she cut me off politely and said: “Intention is not our concern. Netflix deals only with impact.”
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Mega Comrade posted:Ricky Gervais wishes he was as likable as David Brent. I don't want to dwell on it too much longer, but during Adult Swim's run of the British Office they had Gervais record little bonus intros that they played. It was a little striking as it went on that he didn't seem to get just how repulsive Brent was and it clearly bothered him how much people hated him. Basically he saw Brent like how the US Office wanted/would try to eventually portray Michael Scott, a decent dude who was just painfully clueless and didn't understand people rather than a complete tool. Gervaise explained how he went to great lengths to try and generate sympathy for Brent at the end because he was upset that people were excited about him getting comeuppance. That always felt like a weird window into his view of himself. Probably reading too much into it, but it stuck with me.
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pentyne posted:I honestly wonder beyond all the lovely clickbait and anti-Heard stuff if there were any real mistakes made by her legal team. Early on the whole "Heard's lawyer objected to his own question ROFL!" got a lot of attention but apparently that's a very common mistake when a witness decides to take their own interpretation of a question. I'm just going off of the coverage in the thread, but the story about them introducing the Kate Moss story seemed like an actual case of them really loving up. Either by not being aware of it or by not coaching Heard hard to not bring it up at all.
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weekly font posted:She specified a time frame following a high profile divorce. The jury seemed to think it was pretty obvious who she was referring to. Probably didn’t help she outright says during her cross examination “that’s why I wrote it about him.” I kind of wonder if that ended up hurting her case too. Not naming him might have made it seem to the jury like Hollywood sniping and rear end covering, as opposed to a heartfelt statement.
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