All signs have been pointed to Warner Bros. abandoning the leftist virus that has plagued the company and other studios since a long time. Thanks to some angry former HBO Max executives, we’ve got confirmation that the house of Bugs Bunny is pushing away the disease that has destroyed a laundry list of franchises.
(READ: Warner Bros. Seems to be abandoning leftism between the firing of Brian Stelter, and the cancellation of Batgirl)
According to Deadline, 14 percent of the staff was laid off on WB’s streaming service, HBO Max. There were many VPs who were also laid off.
Overall, 14% of staff — about 70 people — are being laid off Monday, the vast majority of them on the Max side. That includes in Max Non-Fiction Originals, International, Acquisitions, Casting and previously reported Live-Action Family Originals, which are all being either scaled back significantly or essentially eliminated, leading to the departure of the bulk of the the staffs, led by Jennifer O’Connell EVP, Non-Fiction & Live-Action Family Originals for HBO Max; Jennifer Kim, SVP, International Originals for HBO Max; Michael Quigley, EVP of Content Acquisitions at HBO Max; and Linda Lowy, EVP Casting for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, TNT, TBS and truTV.
Many of the people laid off had a strong loyalty to radical leftism, woke culture and, naturally, they are being fired with racist intentions.
The Daily Beast spoke to some former HBO Max executives and they were happy to tell us that the stream service’s staff is now whiter than ever.
The layoffs have “amplified the lack of diversity at HBO,” another former executive told The Daily Beast. “HBO is the most homogenous part of this umbrella. It is not about trying to find a way to incorporate some of the [Max]HBO executives just took a sweeping cut in three of their divisions, kids, family and global. A lot of Black and brown people lost their jobs.”
However, one former exec gave the game away when they snidely derided the new direction as being one that doesn’t want to divide people based on politics and, instead, embraces middle America:
One former exec describes Discovery+ as a “more general audience platform that doesn’t have the specificity that HBO Max was tailored to. I think Discovery is just a very ‘all’ audience, [they] don’t wanna make things that are political, topical, alienate Middle America—more Chip and Joanna,” they said, referring to the home renovation show Fixer Upper: Welcome Home hosted by Chip and Joanna Gaines.
“If David Zaslav had his wish, he would just program Chip and Joanna all day long,” the executive said. “There was just a massive, ‘We don’t need you. You’re not offering the things we’re focused on.’”
Oh no! Warner Bros. has decided to abandon divisive politics in favor of content that appeals to a broad audience, rather than pushing messages that are only relevant to a small number of people. Get the pitchforks and torchlights.
There’s a simple principle that has been proven true time and time again, and with few exceptions: Get woke, go broke.
Audiences have been abandoning various offerings from studios who’ve watched billions of dollars flushed down the toilet because the product was just a delivery system for a leftist political message. Overtly leftist content, which is not only offensive to some but insults all others, is causing major corporations to lose viewers and subscribers.
CNN is an excellent example. This news network had fallen to such a far left that ratings consistently favored it. Even CNN alums would denounce it, and Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav referred to it as an “advocacy network.”
If it’s touched by wokeness, it begins to bleed viewers. All of the major entertainment networks, including the NFL and the Olympics, have adopted leftism. This has resulted in millions of viewers and huge financial losses. Even shows and movies that focus on social justice continue to disappoint.
Warner Bros. was one of the first companies to recognize the harm leftism is doing and have taken drastic steps to rectify the situation. It’s cleaning house at HBO Max, it scrapped the already completed $70 million Batgirl movie, it’s purging CNN, and who knows what else will come down the line?
Warner Bros. figured out who their customer base was and who had the financial resources to make them succeed. It’s definitely not the woke activists who won’t be satisfied no matter how much they’re groveled to, nor will they be the ones spending money on their programming and merch.
Warner Bros. will be the first to make it right.
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