Like the wage gap.

So they went full woke mode, hoping that it will bring ppl back, and they failed

"UGH this customer. Trying to tell me the wage gap isn't real"

Like when EA were like "If you don't like it don't buy the game"

Name one business who have told their customers not to buy their product

It's about operating within the market

Forcing change on the market DOESN'T WORK

"this customer. Trying to tell me the wage gap isn't real when i clearly pay my female employees less"

"and they say i'm the shitty person here? *scoff*"

Just a bunch of sneaky lying atheists, huh Grenade? 😛

lol

Nah but seriously like

How a business functions is on supply and demand, fundamentally. They make profit by meeting the demand. So *ignoring demand* is the most idiotic thing ever

They are leaving vast market vacuums

The problem is it's all the way up the ladder

There's a gap in the market for stereotypically masculine or right-leaning television shows but that gap isn't being filled because TV execs are denying those shows airtime, you feel me? Plus generally people on the right don't chase creative careers as often, but I don't think that's as related

Its not even ignoring demand, its forcing ppl to change their demand.
"Oh, so you want to buy apple? No man, im gonna sell you banana, and you will like it"

They're artificially creating an imbalance

Yeah

"If you don't eat banana you're discriminating against tropical fruit growers"

Meanwhile anyone who grows apples is getting fucked

The problem is demand for apples will grow so high that people *bypass the grocers*

The people trying to sell you fruit will get ignored because they don't wanna give you what you demand

If they cannot supply to meet the demand they lose out on a market and therefore profit

There's always been a bias in media, but the game's changed

It's gone from addressing and rejecting things respectfully, to an inquisition against wrongthink

Like, to give a historical example

Around one of Queen Elizabeth's jubilees, people were releasing songs to do with the Queen

God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols comes out

It's basically calling the Queen a fascist and disagreeing with her a ton, because they saw her detrimental to the UK

i think its already happening, indy game scene is getting good, and you are starting to see decent looking alternatives to big original IPs like battlefield

Did the radio still play them? Fuck yes they did. They were #2 on the charts. SOME people banned the song, because it was offensive. But it was played

In fact some people believe the government and some businesses purposefully skewed results and records, and it was #1

It was censorship and disagreement. But the people still heard

Those were simpler times, when being offended by a product didnt mean product will be banned all together, and everyone getting that product are a nazis

Such nice times

The indie scene will save art and the freedom of information

If Articles 11 and 13 go through the indie scene is gonna explode because word-of-mouth, chatrooms and local communities are gonna be how you hear about stuff

when will people realize, that if you give attention to things you hate, you bring attention to it, and then people who dislike you will support it just out of spite for you, and then other people will see it

its best to ignore it in the hopes no one else likes it and it fades from view

i remember when catcher in the rye was considered banned