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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 21, 2017 0:23:12 GMT
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Post by omega on Oct 21, 2017 0:44:32 GMT
Depends on how much creative input Andy had. Honest Trailers and Movie Fights will definitely be hit, but guest judges on the latter have proven popular. There's a quite a bit of other contents other people have been contributing to as well. Hal Rudnick tends to handle the general coverage videos (the listicles and such).
A shame about going dark really, as I was really looking forward to the Riverdale Recaps, and the TV Fights are often a lot of fun. I do predict a period of playing it safe with the panel features, damage control kind of thing. The important thing is how the studio culture restabilises and how that will play out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 9:49:27 GMT
Screen Junkies are going to suffer big, not just because of what he did but because of something insidious that's never been too much of a factor in these sort of things before - they willingly did nothing about the accusations until they became public. They KNEW about the accusations and brushed them aside. There's a real sense of movement now for these sort of crimes to punish not just offenders but also enablers and deniers. It seems Dan Murrell - according to one woman who's come forward - told her she was just misreading things, or exaggerating. That's not as bad as what Andy did, of course, but it's going to make SJ pariahs regardless. One of the women was JTE's girlfriend too which makes things even more awkward as to establishing who knew what, when as he's quite senior in SJ but evidently had no clue - and she didn't tell him for fear of his position - so will he, and others, want to work for them any more?
From a selfish POV ignoring the allegations themselves and just imagining YT without the channel.....they'd be no loss if they go under. Their trailers are funny but a lot of their other shows are some of the worst kind of 2017 media that think pop-culture and movies were invented by Star Wars and consists mostly of Marvel and DC movies. I don't know if anyone's seen RedLetterMedia's superlative Nerd Crew parodies but that pretty much nails Screen Junkies output for me these days, facile sycophancy shilling for the studios to get their interviews with the stars.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 21, 2017 12:19:16 GMT
Itll be intriguing to see what happens next. But it is all part of a wider problem, so there may be a lot of change
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Post by sherlock on Oct 21, 2017 13:22:53 GMT
It's right they've cut output in light of this. It's beyond clear that something needs to change drastically behind the scenes, and if that means the channel ends so be it. It's just a YouTube channel at the end of the day.
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Post by omega on Oct 27, 2017 21:25:36 GMT
Screen Junkies has uploaded a video explaining where things are at this point in time and the future of Screen Junkies. They have been talking about the problem, getting a third party in help tackle the issue and everyone has had to go through training about sexual harassment. It's good to see they aren't covering it up or denying anything. The first step to dealing with something is to acknowledge it. Andy wasn't vilified, it was all very diplomatic.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2017 21:41:22 GMT
The big problem for SJ is that it seems the allegations were either covered up or dismissed out of hand. If that's true and proven Andy Signore won't be the only casualty. They didn't address that aspect in their video at all, and until they do say "We could and should have done more", it's not going to be easy for them to act like everything's fun again and go back to having a laugh about Marvel v DC or whatever relatively trivial aspect of popculture they're on that week.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Oct 27, 2017 23:39:07 GMT
The big problem for SJ is that it seems the allegations were either covered up or dismissed out of hand. If that's true and proven Andy Signore won't be the only casualty. They didn't address that aspect in their video at all, and until they do say "We could and should have done more", it's not going to be easy for them to act like everything's fun again and go back to having a laugh about Marvel v DC or whatever relatively trivial aspect of popculture they're on that week. I'm surprised they didn't just straight up ditched the name and done a rebrand with name tweaks to the show. I can't imagine stock value is high at the moment. |
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