Chick-fil-A cooking up new “family-friendly” video streaming service
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I remember when Touched by an Angel, an unmistakably "christian" inspired program, was on the air -- which despite being somewhat well written and produced, and starring Roma Downey, I just couldn't bear to watch (which was a shame, because I could almost have watched the show just for Roma Downey).
They say "family friendly", but when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, this really comes down to purveying not very well disguised "doctrine friendly" religious messaging -- and then they complain about ordinary mainstream media pushing perspectives and messages that are "too woke".
They say "family friendly", but when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, this really comes down to purveying not very well disguised "doctrine friendly" religious messaging -- and then they complain about ordinary mainstream media pushing perspectives and messages that are "too woke".
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It sounds like it should be an April fools joke, but somehow is not. Aren't most of the streaming services claiming to be losing money? What will they do on Sunday?
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Hey! VeggieTales was pretty mainstream, damn funny at times, and not low quality.
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Failing to love your neighbor or to treat others how you would like to be treated.
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This is code for "Families with queer members aren't real families and won't be included."
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If their programming contains only cis-het relationships and all-white casts but for a token minority who doesn't actually have any ethnic characteristics other than their skin color, yeah, I guess it'll be hated for what's not there. But that's not extremely inoffensive. Pretending that people who make you uncomfortable don't exist is offensive to those people as well as plenty of the rest of us.
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Avian themed? I think you mean bovine themed.
At least that's what I've seen in their billboard ads.
At least that's what I've seen in their billboard ads.
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Streaming video isn't hard. Nebula, Crunchyroll, Discovery+ have all succeeded in their niches and are profitable.
It's only hard if you want to be the next Netflix and choose to get there with either $10M+ per episode premium dramas or high tier sports.
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I like Wendys chicken sandwiches. And for fried chicken, there's KFC, the old go-to.
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In the food industry, that would be In-n-Out. Great wages above and beyond minimum wage, benefits, college help, management training.
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I get a Classic Chicken and medium fries several times a month and it's a good sandwich, but Chik-Fil-A's is better.
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Not a bucket chicken person but I do like the Wendy chicken sandwiches. Those are pretty good.
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Of course they are because they are used to the bundle and changing to streaming upends their whole business model.
"It’s a great business model when a whole bunch of people pay for something they don’t really care if they have or not” - Rob Manfred, on the cable bundle.
Look at Disney with Disney+ they went all in with incredibly expensive MCU and Star Wars shows with $10-25M per episode budgets leaving little left for anything else.
In comparison Netflix funds loads of cheap scripted and unscripted on top of their premium shows which are also cheaper. Take Bridgerton for example for the price of a single Acolyte episode Netflix gets 3 Bridgerton episodes and change!
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I call bullshit on the PR packaging of this as a “streaming service” in order to get it more press than just the production of schlocky low budget content for distribution, like you’d get shipped out to the Hallmark Channel in the past, which buys dirt-cheap garbage like that. Slapping a “streaming service” wrapper around crappy content makes it only slightly better than an ad-supported YouTube channel.
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Best chicken sandwich is your opinion, not fact. I find their food to be bland and overpriced. The texture of the chicken has become rubbery in recent years.
Your opinion of their customer service is also an opinion, not fact. It's no better or worse than any other fast food joint.
Hallmark is vanilla. There's always a market for shallow wholesome content. It's not representative of massive growth potential in a crowded market of similar content.
The rest of your mini-screed is also just opinion that you state with the confidence of fact.
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People do not and should not have a right to media that doesn't contain black people or gay people because they find those people's mere existence offensive.
That kind of garbage perpetuates racism, sexism, and homophobia. People are more comfortable with people different from themselves when they actually get to know them. Hence why people in big, multicultural cities tend to be a lot less racist than people who never leave the 95% white rural towns they grew up in.
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That, and virtually every online enterprise designed to replicate a mainstream social media or web service, but from the perspective of the Christian fundamentalist bigot has failed. It's the entire reason why the GQP is so desperate to compel mainstream companies to broadcast their hate speech.
The only one I can think of that has achieved something that could be considered "success" is conservapedia. Except that it ends up looking instead like an amazing parody of both Wikipedia and Christian fundamentalists. Which probably was not the intent.
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Ah so by that logic, a business refusing service to BIPOC or LGBTQ+ people because of their race/sex/gender is woke?
An employer passing women over for jobs, promotions and paying them less than their male coworkers. doesn't seem very woke. But what do I know?
segregation, redlining, Jim Crow laws... woke?
disproportionate violence committed against women, LGBTQ+ people and minorities? believe it or not... woke!
oh right "merit" in this context only applies to cishet white men!
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this sounds an awful lot like you just want an echo chamber in which you are never exposed to any person or thing with which you are unfamiliar. yeah growth and change is hard but humans are more than our base instincts. embrace change, for it is inevitable.
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I don't know, but I do know that's what Scout Master Kevin used to say.
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Nope, that doesn't work. I see people who claim to be not woke choosing all the time for reasons other than merit. Just a few examples:
President Trump hired his daughter and son-in-law as White House advisers, even though they had no relevant experience or skills, or anything resembling merit. He hired them because they were related to him and presumably loyal, and because he considers Ivanka to be highly fuckable. President Trump hired plenty of other people who were without merit too, as he loudly proclaimed after he had fired them.
Candidate Trump chose JD Vance for his running mate, even though it is obvious that he has no merit as a political candidate. It seems like every day Vance is offending some demographic or another. Vance has no merit as a politician. Trump probably chose him because he is a sycophant.
Landlord Donald Trump, in a previous century, chose tenants not for their ability to pay steady rent and keep up their property, but for the color of their skin. There is a legal trail on this. This legal trail is evidence that "not woke Trump" is racist, not objective.
By your definition, Donald Trump is woke AF, and we all know he claims not to be.
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