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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.bsky.social |
The erasure of COVID by the entertainment industry has played a huge role in sanctioning government abandonment of public health. Creatives are complicit in the ongoing harm caused by COVID. What a difference it would make if they actively portrayed the pandemic in their work.
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Matt Ferrel 🍦
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lol, ok.
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Hunters kriminell - schwer enttäuscht, aber wohlauf
@hunteress.bsky.social
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Grace Monk
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No. “Creatives are complicit” is an absolutely ridiculous beginning to any sentence re the pandemic and cannot be followed by anything correct or accurate. Just no hell no.
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Chris
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I don’t know, I have a hard time with this one. The media that did do Covid was all such a gigantic bummer. Do you remember the Covid season on Grey’s Anatomy? It was awful and depressing and not fun to watch. Government abandoned public health because of capitalism, not entertainment.
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Tom Dennis
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They tend to deal with social issues allegorically, i.e. the whole mutant thing. The MCU didn't go into the pandemic because they already had the Snap, which literally cut the population in half (for a while) and disrupted the lives of the survivors.
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kylie, a they about town,,,
@kylie.hater.club
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As someone who vehemently disagrees with my union president who is an anti-vaxxer, know that actors have been speaking about this and we are extremely disappointed our leadership does not give two shits.
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Caridad Svich
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indeed. but i dont think its too late for the industry to face the music. too many ppl are getting sick. at some point, stories gotta give. just as with climate crisis.
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TrickyC (he/him)
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Lotta ppl are trying to dunk on this but 1) saying media contributed to an atmosphere of pandemic denial—seeing normalized images of unmasked people enjoying normal life while life was not normal—should be absolutely noncontroversial, & 2) something being complicit does not equal immoral or canceled
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@imightbealex.bsky.social
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I was ready to agree with everything you said until you called them “creatives.” Yeah, I know it’s mass-market comic books and movies, but they are still “writers” and “artists.” This is important.
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
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I don't know. What difference would it make?
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Tori the Determined (they/she)
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It depends on the type of media. It would have been erasure to not be on The Good Fight or New Amsterdam. Hell, even Superstore handled it quite well, and the main picture on Hulu is still of the cast in masks!
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Monkey Minion @ SDCC Booth 2007
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“Creatives are complicit” Fuck you. A lot of creatives spent most of 2020-21 worried about making a living when our revenue streams took a nose dive. Sorry that we all didn’t have the bandwidth to make art YOU WERENT OFFERING TO PAY FOR, about the pandemic we were all just trying to get through.
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Lew Morton
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Every TV show should have showed someone washing their hands for twenty full seconds
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Aida
@mutualaida.bsky.social
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Blaiming creatives in this way is absurd. Diseases historically destroy creativity and inspiration. Art relies on connectivity and governments around the world failed to foster this while businesses actively profited from our suffering.
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Flavio Sette
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The last time Marvel and DC put out a comic addressing a major real world issue as it happened it became a meme. People to this day gripe about the 9/11 special or post that panel of Doctor Doom crying. I don't think we can trust the Big Two to handle this subject, and I don't think they want to.
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Gloria!
@smilodonichthys.bsky.social
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It's fiction???
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Semi-Interesting Photography, etc.
@remid0d0s0.bsky.social
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It took a couple decades for the Vietnam war to show up big in entertainment and I'm perfectly okay with it taking even longer for the far deadlier and more controversial 2020-2022 to show up. The necessary circumspection isn't available yet.
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Ken Lowery
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I think you have "Creatives" confused with people who have legislative power.
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Despoina 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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It wasn't really creatives that did that... it was more executives. I know for a fact that most creatives if anything were doing art about the pandemic since day one. Specially when a lot of us are disabled.
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EmbraceTheBald
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“Movies don’t even show 9/11 anymore. They are why we have terrorism” - No one in 2005
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Minuit
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I mean there was marvel zombies.
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AJ
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I'm fine with it not being in the comics. I mean, Marvel has had plagues in story before. And it would put too much attention on why characters aren't doing more with addressing illnesses. Besides, I don't need to see Dr. Doom emphasizing social distancing...
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Spookini
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iirc one of the only pieces of media I saw that doesn't ignore covid was Glass Onion, very good movie
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Electrichead
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Jesus Christ no, Marvel absolutely doesn't need to make it's comics even worse with more ham fisted bullshit about the real world. Their complete inability to pull that off is a big part of why they already suck so much.
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Ness
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Placing blame on “creatives” for the decisions made by the same handful of higher-ups that are actively trying to eradicate our careers so they can replace us with machine labor is highly unappreciated and needlessly divisive.
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@dirtydancing2hn.bsky.social
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it would be difficult given the medium and its relationship to real world time. When the lockdowns hit, Marvel stopped printing for nearly 2 months. When it started again, roll out was slow. It was December 2020 by the time they had printed all the issues that scheduled for March.
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Rich Johnston
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Did you not read Savage Dragon?
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cinematic genius
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It’s hard for actors to convey emotion when they have to cover up half their face. On the other hand, in documentaries it makes dialogue editing much easier
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Lauren
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I respect your work on COVID a lot and, as an immunocompromised writer/creative who used to work on film/tv, I think blaming “creatives” as a wide swath neglects the reality that most mainstream tv/books are getting funneled through execs at the top first.
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MDK
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that would make the comics really interesting, heaven forbid
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Jack Cameron
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The difference would be people wouldn't buy it. No one is desperate for COVID stories. No one. Not even you. And COVID barely makes sense in the Marvel Universe where folks like Reed Richards can super science it or Dr. Strange can magic it or Krakoan medicines can fix it. Sorry. I just disagree.
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Sy Nakamura
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Oh fuck off
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Dead Weirdo Studios
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99% of the time the actual creatives aren’t the ones making editorial decisions, in fact that’s less the case every day. It’s corporate media enforcing complicity. Creatives actually want you alive and buying their art. Shareholders are the ones who are fine selling stolen scrap to corpses.
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BensDecoy
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Is this the kind of complicity where you would expect “creatives” to be required to make amends for this crime against society?
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TRML - (he/him) Elder Millennial Rock 🌟
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I would like to know how Dr. Doom handled COVID in Latveria... Seriously tho, it is odd it has just been largely glossed over. It'll occasionally pop up, but usually as a brief mention with no further thought.
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Mr Dr Bae
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I understand where you're coming from, but a) no one wants it, b) entertainment as escapism is ok, even healthy, and c) artists and writers are and must be free to create as they see fit.
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Biscuit
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This post is so off. It's not Disney's job to be the chief critic of poor government policies. Do you really want Disney to be the one with that job? "What a difference it would make if Disney portrayed what I wanted them to" is such wishful thinking. You can't rely on them for that. It's silly.
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EL is in the Details
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“Art is a mirror” does not mean all art is required to mirror one specific thing. And as others have given industry-specific examples of, art isn’t something you can simply program in with a bunch of desired themes on a set/tight schedule. —Especially if it involves ongoing real-world tragedy.
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EL is in the Details
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I don’t think you’re familiar with the world of Marvel comics. It shares *some* of our geography, national borders, and technology, but is so wildly different in terms of world events and much of recent history that inserting the Covid crisis wouldn’t feel real or authentic.
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krisis
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As someone who is incredibly COVID vigilant and who still masks in public, but who also reads thousands of comic books year: this is a terrible take
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Buick Spacewagon
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I would kindly point out that superhero comics are a fantasy, with routine fantastic solutions to problems. No one would be served by COVID being instantly cured by one of dozens of people who can bend reality and transcend space/time.
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Benene
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I mean, I'll be honest I didn't want to see covid in any of the media I was consuming, and still can't watch most things from 2020-2021
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Wondercarrot
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“I won’t be happy until everything is a misery”
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ROO0R | twitch
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We don’t need to saturate our entertainment with every real world issue, including COVID. The entertainment industry handled it horrendously and ignoring it was the best thing it could do for public health.
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Alisha Grauso
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I guess video games cause violence, too. 🙄
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Lizardguy64
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I doubt it would lead to many interesting stories. The Marvel universe has thousands of scientists who could cure it instantly, and it's really hard to fight criminals 6 feet away. Spider-man would be one of the few who could work because he can web most down while masking up properly.
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