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One thing I do kinda wish would stop happening is saying something was cancelled when it just wasn’t renewed. I’ve worked on shows that have been cancelled and THAT sucks so much bc a job ends prematurely. Not getting renewed also sucks, but mostly for my sense of job security

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They should care but they won’t, so we need to separate from our frustration around how things should be and fight against how we know things are. We need to stand behind our knowledge that these corps cannot function w/out us and not let them convince us we are worth less

We need to remember not to talk to the ppl representing the corps as ppl. They’re just the human face negotiating on behalf of the company. A company isn’t concerned with humanity, they don’t eat food or need shelter so it can’t and won’t empathize with or care about you

So, when we as the peon employees of these companies are trying to negotiate fair wages: we cannot go into those negotiations in good faith. Because the corps certainly are not. We can’t convince them to meet our needs, bc they don’t care, so we must demand that they do.

And in entertainment: every product we make takes a lot of time and money on the front end, so not every fiscal year can look good on the stock market. It’s just not actually feasible. So instead of adapting the way they measure success, we see massive lay offs and cancellations

This is also why we see significant layoffs at the end of virtually every year: the company wants to look like they made and saved money at the end of every fiscal year. So they fabricate that by laying off essential employees and claim it’s reducing ‘redundancy’

Netflix is also victim to this though for different reasons. They shifted from a company that provided a service where it is possible and feasible to plan around a fiscal year into an entertainment production company but didn’t adapt the way they measured the companies success

But tech companies have been buying and merging with entertainment companies (think ATT buying out WB/Turner) constantly lately. So the entertainment industry as a whole has suffered by this progressive shift into an incompatible corporate strategy

This is also why you see a lot of front end cost cutting despite those front end cuts leading to a more expensive back end. They’re concerned with looking good at the end of a fiscal year, and higher front end costs ‘looks’ bad. That way of working doesn’t work for entertainment.

The ‘riskier’ more serious animation shows you might be hyped for: they get cancelled/get slashed b4 they ever air the most. Studios these days function like tech companies, and that is antithetical to animation bc it on paper it needs to be made at a loss before it can be a gain

Did a little freelance boards on this! And my twin sister directed on this. It’s a good show that had a great team.

How we choose talk about things really really matters. It affects how we interface with the world and each other on a subconscious level. Talking dogmatically about your opinions can lead to rigid thinking and an increased inability to allow change and adaptability

So that is to say please feel welcome to your own feelings about something and your right to express those feelings. But please be mindful of how you express them to a wider audience. If you don’t know something for a fact just try not to frame your opinion as though it is fact

Also if you hate a show, and it’s not objectively actively harmful: you need to talk about it from a personal opinion standpoint. Your opinion is subjectively true, but misattributing your personal feelings about anything as objective fact is actually what is actively harmful

Being happy when a bad show gets cancelled bc you think that means more room for good ones: that’s not how it works. That’s a scarcity mindset that places blame in the wrong place and only serves the corporation. When a show is cancelled I guarantee it happened b4 it even aired.

If you’ve seen a super cool ad for any upcoming animated show recently: it’s 99% of the time already been cancelled before season 1 was ever released. Thank streaming, infinite growth models, and stupid short sighted corporations for that✌️

But legal =\= right. The law isn’t fair, and if anything it’s often a rigged game we’re forced to play against the people who rigged it.

I didn’t press the issue bc a) I was naive and new to the industry and b) I’m sure somewhere in my contract there was probably language that could have been interpreted in a way that made that perfectly legal for them to do.

I remember designing a graphic that the company I worked for took and put on a t shirt and sold it for money and I didn’t even get a free t shirt out of it. Anyway, that was on my first animation job and so began my no more free ‘fanart’ from me for shows I work on policy