Kimmel and the New Era of Corporate Capitulation | The Backdrop
Darren is back this week with an extra and a very important episode of The Backdrop. Enjoy!
Kimmel and the New Era of Corporate Capitulation | The Backdrop (YouTube)
Comments (19)
Always a difficult watch with too many comments to make on an outstanding video. So for just two: always remember the speech at the end of The Dictator and remember, political apathy is the end of democracy more than anything else.
First episode of The Back Drop I've seen. Fucking astounding, thank you for putting this together. You put into words what so many of us are feeling, and I can't thank you enough for actually saying it.
Well put together and well spoken.
Thank you for this video Darren. I was let go from Xbox a few months ago, and I don't think it was a coincidence that my work was mainly focused on databases which powered Moderation software. Of course, I have no proof of this, but I did get the feeling that less importance was being given to my work, which was literally helping keep online communities more diverse by filtering out hate speech, toxicity, etc. And I did get the strong feeling as well that the way companies are bending over to please the current administration had something to do with it. BTW, I worked remotely from Canada. I'm not even in the USA!
As an American, this video was hard to watch and made me incredibly sad. Thanks for making it, Darren.
Awesome video, being willing to do stuff like this is a lot of why I'm so happy to support Second Wind
Watching the media bend over has been depressing but predictable. As a Canadian, the last year has kind of felt like being handcuffed to a guy transforming into a werewolf. And the werewolf won’t shut up about trans people.
What scares me are the Trump supporters who are crying about being "canceled" because they intentionally spread lies and hate while cheering when facts are censored.
Facts don’t care about your feelings. But my feelings, they care all about.
Darren well done that was a much needed commentary on the situation - I in part enjoy second wind because it lets me escape some of the day to day doom scrolling we all suffer with. But regardless of your political opinions the impact it is having on the industry needed to be discussed because it is significant. Thank you for the well structured and facts based video insightful as always
To be fair, was wary of this being a bit too heavy. So we’re putting it up on an “off” week. There was one last week and there’ll be one next week, both much lighter.
Great video, Darren. I'm always envious of how well you can explain your point of view on any topic.
Cheers, appreciated!
Great work here Darren!
Thank you. This means a lot to me.
For someone coming from a different linguistic background than English, the common modern use of the word "politics" keeps on being baffling to me. What does "this isn't politics, by the way" even mean?! In my eyes, wanting to make money no matter the cost *is* a political agenda. In how far enterprises (or people) should be allowed to do so *is* a political decision. I'm no expert in Ancient Greek but I believe that politics was once a word for "shaping what society is about", not just an equivalent for opinion, ideology or power play. That always seemed to me like the whole point of instituting a "political system", i.e. a government or constitution... But alas, in my own language, something like "politicized" is becoming a word of a similarly difficult meaning...
Fair, but I didn’t want to get into a particularly charged - and expansive - debate in an already quite long video. I don’t think this is a treatment of, say, the politics of the moment. There are better videos from smarter people about that. I do hope - modestly - that it just illustrates how the machinery is working and why it is moving the way that it is. I accept that is political, but I feel like to call the video “political”, I’d have to get into the ideologies of Trumpism and Reaganism through more than just quick asides.
There's a facet to this discussion that's not covered: Trump is an absolute expert at manipulating and using the media to a degree that no Republican president was able to do since Reagan. The difference between the two is that Reagan was much more passive (and passive aggressive) with the media, but never openly hostile, as he was a Hollywood product, while Trump is, befitting his New York upbringing, much more aggressive and hostile. Both understood the media, and everything they did was by design.
I think Trump also bristles at never being accepted by the establishment. The Kennedy Centre stuff is, to me, very revealing.