Extremely online pop-culture nerds like us tend to overestimate how much the general public resembles our bubble. “I don’t know anyone who’s excited about HotD,” we’d say, forgetting that there are millions of people out there we don’t know and that our social circles aren’t representative of the population at large.

There were more than a few people here that were very adamant that the GOT IP was dead, that the final seasons had poisoned the well, and the House of Dragons was going to be DOA.

Solid premiere, but realizing now how much the different accents & time zones in GoT helped me keep all the stories/lineages straight. A show where they all have the same hair & name is going to be more work.

Nick Offerman as Bill? My wildest gay bear dreams have come true.

Seriously, especially taking off completed original series. Infinity Train was pretty artistic and who knows what the streaming rights situation is with it being an Original. I’ve never heard of so many “original” series being taken off, especially bc I assume those have much harder contracts to hop between streaming…

Jesse Pinkman is Aaron Paul. So we always see him in every show and movie.

Is he trying to kill off HBO Max? Because it seems very much like he is trying to kill off HBO Max.

Is Zaslav going to turn HBO/WB into the Discovery Channel/TLC, churning out cheap reality shows by exploiting people who aren’t business savvy enough to sign good contracts and let themselves to be gawked at for a few thousand dollars per episode?

There’s no good reason to have pulled so many episodes. However, as someone who accesses HBOMAX on a TV, I have to admit that it does streaming scrolling through the seasons...because so many are missing. Not the solution I was looking for, though.

I wonder how many bridges they’re burning with the creatives. If shows and movies can get canceled without warning and even scrubbed, who’s going to be willing to work with WB?

I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. They already paid for this stuff years ago. Unless they’re renting the episodes (and all the other shows) out to another streamer as an exclusive, how does this benefit them financially?

David Zaslav, his stupid reality shows, and his shitty-looking veneers can go to Hell.

Just some information to put context behind this story; I was never actually SWATed, but I did go through a 7 year campaign of stalking and harassment over criticism of a Kickstarter scam game, Shroud of the Avatar, which included SWAT threats, 3 days before the fatal SWATing in Wichita, which lead to Reddit having to…

Sesame Street points out that monsters are fine and good.

David Zaslav is a monster and must be stopped at all costs.

These folks would permanently wipe all footage of the civil rights marches and speeches from the face of the Earth if it would boost this quarter’s profit numbers, so making Sesame Street inaccessible is no sweat to them.

Imagine how insecure you must be in your gender and sexuality to dox and harass trans folks. I’d feel bad for these bullies not knowing a day of peace, but, well, they’re scum.

I’m fortunate enough to have been ignorant of KiwiFarm’s existence before. It always sucks to realize that there’s companies out there willing to take their money and host this shit

fuck all the hateful fucks around the world. get a life, contribute to society instead of doxing innocent people.