Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
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Given the amount they're paying per hour, I'd expect the quality to be roughly equivalent to a sunday church sermon dressed up in South Park graphics without any of the humor or wit.
There are a lot of places I won't shop simply because it enables repressive, religious conservative ideology.
Pluck them...
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C'mon. I'm sure most of the programming won't be explicitly religious, but let's not pretend that it's not going to be targeted at parents who are "worried their kids will encounter" programming that suggests radical ideas like "some people are gay and that is okay" and "America has historically had a tiny problem with racism" and "transgender people exist".
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Let's be real. As far as fast food goes, their product and customer service are class-leading in quality.
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Maybe they bought the assets of Chicken Soup for the Soul (aka Redbox)?
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Nah, super easy, barely an inconvenience -- end each episode with a cliffhanger whose resolution is in included in one of their meal deals.
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I was offered a tech job by the chicken man before accepting another offer in a totally different industry. Would have been developing some in-house security suite. Got the impression that they were blowing huge amounts of cash on unusual tech projects.
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Weird. I didn’t know they had the capital to make original programming. These services are money losers.
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I don't think their content will include LGBTQ+ characters or themes, but I don't expect their shows to be bigoted either. They literally employ a VP of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yes, talk is cheap, but so is basic decency, and they've broken their cardinal rule to help the LGBTQ+ community before.
I expect their content to be like the many media projects they've already put out: extremely inoffensive, unless you're offended by trash talking burger joints.
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Chex made a Chex based Doom mod...
Burger King made three XBox games.
McDonald's had a few games for NES and Genesis.
But... NONE of those were ongoing subscription services! What the hell is this? The only thing crazier would be if KFC actually DID produce their chicken fried console.
Burger King made three XBox games.
McDonald's had a few games for NES and Genesis.
But... NONE of those were ongoing subscription services! What the hell is this? The only thing crazier would be if KFC actually DID produce their chicken fried console.
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It's just chicken. How many ways can you make it different to be 'better'?
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OMG that was harsh. I love it. Can't wait until their stream gets hijacked, ala this movie I saw as a kid, 'Used Cars'. Be sure to put plenty of bouncing tits in there.
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They tend to make quite a bit of money, actually. The company almost certainly have the capital to fund it, and I would not be surprised if they're treating this as an advertisement for their stores and don't care if they lose some money. (They might not even charge for the content, who knows?)
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Correct. Look at the shows Gibson is already producing. One of them "Studio C" is literally SNL but from Brigham Young University (an ultra Christian University). The troupe name is "Divine Comedy". It airs on the already established "family" cable network BYUtv. Which is owned and operated by Brigham Young University.
It will be a lot of ignoring people and problems they don't like. While conveniently stopping to "pray" it out before every ad break. At least at first. If it actually catches on they'll become more overt in the things they hate.
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Thank You, that's exactly what I'm saying. If extremely inoffensive offends you then you won't like the channel. It will be hated for what's not there.
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I think the real question isn't how are they any better than their competitors at something so simple, it's "how are their competitors so bad at it?"
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You say that, and that all sounds good, but...with this company, is religion ever aside? That might be the problem for a lot of people. And CFAs brand of religion isn't the "this is just a collection of stories about how to not be an asshole" brand of religion. It's quite a bit more extreme than that.
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I guess it's fine if they want to make milquetoast content to let kids slurp up or something. And the company's efforts to help people in need even when it goes against their grain is commendable. But there's a lot to be said for representation, as there's a subtle psychological harm to anyone who rarely or never sees themselves represented in the media they're exposed to.
Ultimately, what I expressed earlier in this thread is the result of cynicism, of mistrust. Because I used to be a part of a church. I used to be okay with Chik-fil-a. But I gradually saw more and more of what they do to people who don't fit their rigid standards, especially marginalized people. And then I discovered that I am one of those marginalized people, and almost as soon as I made that realization public, the church actively pushed me out. And they continue to root for (and even financially support) the kind of people who don't just dislike us - they want us imprisoned and dead.
So I hope you can understand if I bitterly assume that they will not just make content that "innocently" leaves us out of the picture, but that actively condemns us. Even if it's not done openly, I would bet there might be snide remarks that subtly steer the target audience.
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The funny thing is, Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales, is hated by "anti-woke" conservatives. He speaks against Christian Nationalism, Trump/MAGA, "anti-woke", etc.
He made a couple of explainer videos about racial injustice in America.
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Ah, the Truth Social of streaming services. And all of that unscripted content? Nazis and nutballs ranting?
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While they have some decent food and service I kind of hope they include a Russian vocal track. Putin grants conservatives sanctuary.
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I remember when someone I knew brought back some chicken-flavored candy from East Asia. My gawd it was awful.
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If you look into the care they take in making iced tea (including filtered water, custom tea blend, dedicated tea buyers and testers), you would realize they spend a lot of money on getting details right. It wouldn't surprise me if they do the same for their main product.
Sweating the details costs more, but makes all the difference in quality. Competitors don't sweat the details.
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I guess they didn't want to buy GAF?
And is Chris Hardwick really family friendly?
And is Chris Hardwick really family friendly?
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But how many block chain NFTs will synergize the fungibly disintermediate intuitive growth strategies?
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To understand not woke, one would first have to define woke. Which inconveniently, you failed to do. As near as I can understand from usage of those who claim to be not woke, woke means insufficiently racist. (or more generally, insufficiently bigoted). So not woke would indeed mean racist.
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Yep, it's fair to call out their intolerance and decide not to give them any money because of it but they do make a great chicken sandwich.
If you dislike the company you're more likely to be taken seriously for criticizing what they get wrong, which does not include said sandwich.
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