Writers Go On Strike And Of Course They Write The 30 Most Hilarious Signs For The Occasion
Yall have seen that guy with the glorious hair holding up a sign saying something like “yes, grandma, I’m still single,” right? Not just me?
Picket signs like that are a great way to raise awareness about something that people are struggling with, allowing people to express their frustrations in funny and biting ways.
And who could do it better than peeps whose jobs it is to write for a living?
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I would upvote it 1000 times if I could only for the reference
i don’t know the reference but i upvoted on your behalf
Load More Replies...lame reference... but ok if you are running with that at least end it in ... asking it for pay. or ... asking for fair pay. ... comeon! you are supposed to be the writers. I was promised quality and "hilarious" signs.
Hate to nitpick, but she's missing a comma after " girl " , nonetheless, Julia Roberts would be proud....
They are probably not asking for less than one fox settlement, we are talking a lot of writers and is not a single payment, but ok.
Load More Replies...It's a good question, are the people who make up the false narratives at Fox technically writers?
just one yacht probably doesn't cover the salary increase for a month, let along forever, but ok.
If you were as woefully uneducated about this a short while ago as I was, let me clue you in about the strike itself. These are Hollywood writers, represented by the Writers Guild Of America (WGA), striking for fair compensation for their work, especially for streaming content.
On the other side of the barricade, we have the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who represent various media companies and have flat-out denied most of WGA’s requests.
The strike was started only after negotiations failed, with some really pitiful counter-offers, so the WGA Union members voted to strike.
What this means is that WGA members cannot write for AMPTP companies during the strike, as a show of solidarity in an attempt to deprive the companies of content until they run out of entertainment to provide and are therefore forced to renegotiate terms with the guild.
when the working day is done, gays just wanna have fuuuunds
Load More Replies...I actually think this is witty. Probably the only one. Sadly it misses the mark on the issue. But i guess "Writers (or gay writers)just wanna have funds" no longer works. So I'll take it.
Try: our "I" is not artificial. It's real and demands real pay. (next time)
What about: A.I. is fine, but Real I., demands real pay?
ChatGPT came up with this instead: "Sorry, AI, but when it comes to intelligence, you're just A-verage and I'm I-ncomparable." Tell me that is not better!
if this is the writers, no wonder movies have these s**t dialogs
Until AI can buy movie tix, popcorn, and drinks and sit and watch a show -- online, at home or in a movie theater, maybe let's not write off PEOPLE as writers?
Idk why you're getting down voted. You're pro human writers.
Load More Replies...Ok, I don't argh I can't be mean without feeling bad
Load More Replies...I think Carol aka Karen should be replaced with one of those fancy espresso machines for every writer's room.
Hope Carol Lombardini's "retirement" is part of the strike settlement. Cause she's really out of touch. And stupid.
And when we say that the writers want “fair compensation”, we really do mean it. For example, Valentina Garza, writer for many popular shows, from The Simpsons to Wednesday, shares a streaming residual check for two episodes of Jane the Virgin.
Apparently she got $0.01 for one episode and $0.02 for another, which the streamers rerun constantly.
Furthermore, according to Associated Press, when accounting for inflation, writer-producer pay has decreased about 23%, with 14% of the decline happening during the last 5 years.
Fun fact: if the minimum wage of $1.60/hour in 1960 had kept up with corporate profits per capita, even in the 2009 recession, it would have been about $15/hour. In the early days of the pandemic, it would have been about $28/hour. As of 2022, it would be closer to $50/hour.
Wow. So all of us have been playing Bend over the Barrel? Dang corporate McScrooges
Load More Replies...boring facts, i was promised witty writing by the title of this post
Not really, it is one of the most powerful AIs out there and the possibilities are endless. Want to start a YouTube channel? ChatGPT can write video scripts for you. Same for a blog or any other form of content creation. Need to design a website? ChatGPT will write the HTML for you. I'm confident that ChatGPT is the innovation of the decade, on par with the iPhone and the PC.
Load More Replies...ChatGPT would have done it better... watch(from chatgpt): "our pens are dry, until our pay is wet"..."We may be at a loss for words, but we won't be silenced by injustice" ""No words, no work, no way."
The Google guy that was fired for leaking that a sentient AI had been made mentioned what consumers are seeing is old and heavily lobotomized, the real up to date uncensored unlimited AI has read everything in Google books as just the tip of the iceberg, there is very little unrestricted AI's can't do. Almost all corporate RD at this point is on lobotomizing the AI's which is why a Google engineer lamented open source is catching up too fast despite fewer resources. https://futurism.com/blake-lemoine-google-interview https://gizmodo.com/google-ai-chatbot-gpt-openai-bard-1850408123
Besides pay, writers want better residuals, with writers like Valentina pointing out the pathetic numbers she receives. And just in case you’re wondering, residuals are similar to royalties, but while royalties are paid out by your contractor, residuals are collectively negotiated by unions.
According to Quora answers, royalties also stay the same, while residuals reduce from 100% to 10%, for example.
That is some of the best writing I have had the pleasure of listening to. It makes me squirm because I knew those kind of people, it's so accurate. Great writing isn't words, its manipulating emptions by truly understanding characters and having the ability to emulate them. Far smarter than actors and I love actors.
THB, they coulda gave me warning about Logan. I miss the old SOB and cry at McDonald's commercials now.
I would have said: "is your deal" or "is your thing" but I guess this is what bad paid writers can do. Very meta.
As if Jeff is too strapped for cash to pay the writers a living wage concurrent with the cost of living.
As for increases in pay, WGA is striving to establish a new minimum for writer-producers. Variety explains that currently the minimum for everyone above staff writer is $7,412 per week.
The guild seeks that everyone at the level of co-producer, producer, and above get a minimum pay 25% higher than the story editor tier.
The AMPTP was willing to create a new tier, but with a minimum of 2-7% above the story editor level.
This is my least favorite one, because it reinforces the stereotype that you need to have childhood trauma to write and that you need to have talent if you have trauma.
There is no living person on earth without Childhood trauma and it is greatly impacting how we act, react, think, believe. So in fact, living, having experiences will result in trauma that is basically a ohysical found on our nervous system and brain that forms a pattern. It is not so much what happens but what happens inside of us during events. I reccoment to read "The myth of normal - trauma, ilnness and healing in a toxic culture" by Gabor Mate.
Load More Replies...She should be! She went through something bad and survived it :D Good for her!
Load More Replies...Is she trying to get paid less?, look i also cost you more on health care! but pay me even more.
Chat GPT doesn't have rent, utilities, gas, food, or any other expense. Union Strong!!!
Alternatively: My well-being / My personal pact / I request to revise my contract
Who read that as Grace Condom. Or am I the only dirty minded weirdo
"I like words. Do you like words? I write for a living, can't you tell??"
I doesn't matter. Everything that's said to Greg is meant to confuse him or make him feel stupid.
Load More Replies...The WGA strike is gaining momentum, with many other unions joining in to support them, including the Producers Guild Of America, NYC musicians union, the Australian Writers’ Guild, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, and the Writers Guild Of Canada joining in, if the AMPTP attempts to look for writing talent abroad.
The strike has started on May 2 and shows no signs of stopping until the WGA’s demands are met.
Do you get the feeling that this strike would have had even more urgency during the heyday of Lord of the Rings?
okay but why would you literally only take a newborn child to a f*****g strike just for the punchline of your "funny" sign
Quinta Brunson of the hilarious show, Abbott Elementry is spot on as usual.
I love Abbott Elementary! I watch it with my mom all the time.
Load More Replies...So happy to see Quinta on the picket line. She may be a celebrity now, but she's always been a writer.
I agree with the sentiment. I also love Abbott. However, chatgtp wrote a rap about kittens as Eminem. I'm gonna say, it could write TARIQ'S raps. SORRY!
Jenn Ortega needs to live a little and experience some failure before ripping the people who are there to help her succeed.
What Is amazing is that most people agree she did the show a favor with the ''edits" how bad the writing has to be for someone that is not an experienced writer to get it even mildly better than the one who is paid to do it?
The fact that Wednesday became an overnight sensation for Netflix and Burton, AFTER Ortega changed several lines of dialog should prove she knew her character a bit more intimately than the writers. That's not to say the writers were wrong or bad, because it appears the writers were simply following their orders.
Show up on the picket line right before quittin time and say he was farther down the sidewalk ALL DAY.
Not all of BP's categories entertain me, but you know what I do when this happens? I just click on another category that actually does interest me. If the writers' strike bores you to the extent of making a nasty comment, do us all a favor and find something else that interests you.
Load More Replies...Well I dispute that -- not that there's anything wrong with it.
Load More Replies...Honestly completely accurate i have never met a writer or artist who wasn't gay as f**k
I'm an artist and I'm not gay as f**k, but that's just by coincidence, not by choice.
Load More Replies...If any one of the writers came up with Quibi I’m sure they’d be long-fired by now lol
if you are going to make a reference from tv then try: We're not the Gilmore Girls, we can't survive on coffee alone. We need fair pay too! (written by chatgpt, lol)
I looked it up, and it's a restaurant? Don't know if they mean that or something else. Still clueless lol
Load More Replies...“Kishke - a beef intestine stuffed with a seasoned filling.” I’m sorry I’m not Jewish - I think I’m missing the message here, can someone help? 😅
I think it’s because she created, wrote, and starred in Better Things and was always cooking…maybe…I could be wrong.
Load More Replies...Why are you not out there writing material then if you think you could do better?🤨
Load More Replies...They aren't using the time to write because they're on strike. That's what a strike is. That is, dare I say it, the defining feature of a strike: the striker doesn't work during it.
Load More Replies...Writers build the foundations of the shows we all love and cherish. Without a decent script it doesn't matter if you hire the best actors or directors in the world. It's just trash. Completely ridiculous that these talented people don't get paid properly.
swap out writers with workers, and actors and directors with sales and managers and it sums up pretty much everything
Load More Replies...I really don't understand this whole "A.I." thing; As students, we are always being told that we should work extra hard to write our own, original stuff and not just trawl the web, copying a sentence from here, half a paragraph from there; and yet, when we finally get out into the Big, Bad Business World, we are being openly encouraged to De facto plagiarize anything that's ever been written by anyone and somehow found its way onto the internet, to our hearts content!?
I listened to an AI generated audio drama recently. Actually I started but turned it off 5 or so minutes I'm. It was so bad with normal conversation that it was jarring and unbearable. Please suck it up and pay the writers. The last time this happened reality shows exploded as a consequence of not having writers. I don't think I can stomach an explosion of whatever AI comes up with.
You missed Michael Jamin’s sign. It was THE BEST. It read, “YOU WRITE THE DAMN SIGN. I'M ON STRIKE”
I don't know how many of you will remember, but we went through this exact same thing in the 1990s! Yes, a Hollywood writers strike. I can't believe it's happening again. The studios never learn.
Writers build the foundations of the shows we all love and cherish. Without a decent script it doesn't matter if you hire the best actors or directors in the world. It's just trash. Completely ridiculous that these talented people don't get paid properly.
swap out writers with workers, and actors and directors with sales and managers and it sums up pretty much everything
Load More Replies...I really don't understand this whole "A.I." thing; As students, we are always being told that we should work extra hard to write our own, original stuff and not just trawl the web, copying a sentence from here, half a paragraph from there; and yet, when we finally get out into the Big, Bad Business World, we are being openly encouraged to De facto plagiarize anything that's ever been written by anyone and somehow found its way onto the internet, to our hearts content!?
I listened to an AI generated audio drama recently. Actually I started but turned it off 5 or so minutes I'm. It was so bad with normal conversation that it was jarring and unbearable. Please suck it up and pay the writers. The last time this happened reality shows exploded as a consequence of not having writers. I don't think I can stomach an explosion of whatever AI comes up with.
You missed Michael Jamin’s sign. It was THE BEST. It read, “YOU WRITE THE DAMN SIGN. I'M ON STRIKE”
I don't know how many of you will remember, but we went through this exact same thing in the 1990s! Yes, a Hollywood writers strike. I can't believe it's happening again. The studios never learn.
