So he concedes that he's selectively picking movies based on his personal arbitrary interpretation of a term that he doesn't even necessarily believe in; rather than setting an objective framework such as pointing to movies which have generated a substantial social media pushback surrounding their release with the
#woke hashtag attached to the trending topic, or a large number of videos uploaded by the "grifters" he criticizes complaining about a certain movie. Either could be quantified.
Gotcha. So basically his video is meaningless, and you lack the constitution to pretend it is. You won't even defend his points, or address my own.
Waiting for what? A 40-year domestic box office revenue low? Because that happened. Still hasn't recovered. Let's skip ahead to where you scapegoat COVID as an out for your ridiculous argument that could only have been made because you were too lazy, ignorant, and oblivious to box office proceeds to realize it walked itself off a cliff. Kind of a stupid argument to make since you're just gonna backpedal now, and whine about COVID, eh?
Then let's visit how even that isn't an out:
- For two decades straight from 1985 to 2004 the domestic box office grew every single year.
- In fact, from 1977 to 2013, when the term woke first gained traction in online searches, it grew by an average of 21.2% every year.
- From 2013 to 2019, on the other hand, half of those six years it shrank rather than grew. Across those years, the average change was just +0.75% per year. That's unadjusted for inflation. If adjusted, Hollywood's revenues were diminishing.
And that last period is with the MCU carrying the industry. Generally speaking, this is not an IP associated with wokeism. That's why we tend to focus on the individual performances of movies characterized by "woke" programming. They don't do well. Generally, they're doing poorly, and they're alienating moviegoers.