Anti-equality.
The World Surf League had an undeniably wonderful year, save asterisks hung on both its male shortboarding and longboarding champions. Wild growth, crazy uptick in partnership vectors, eight million people, and counting, still tuning in to catch September’s Finals Day, but the most colorful feather in that cap is the many social strides made on various social fronts.
Equality, inclusion, recognition, ally-ship, love wins.
Only the hardest of hearts could not stand and applaud but apparently this sort of approach is poison for the bottom line for just this morning Fox News has published an exhaustive list of “liberal books, movies, TV that bombed in 2022.”
Amongst the alleged casualties, Disney’s Strange World, featuring the first openly LGBTQ+ which had a $180 million budget and only made $24 million, the gay rom-com Bros which made maybe nothing, political firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s climate change documentary which, according to Fox, made $80, amongst many others.
Per Fox and, I guess, Christian Toto:
Christian Toto, editor of HollywoodinToto.com, said entertainment projects with “woke” themes tend to turn away audiences.
“The American public is increasingly aware of ‘woke’ Hollywood projects and often steers clear of them. The examples from 2022 include ‘Strange World,’ ‘Lightyear,’ ‘Bros’ and ‘Amsterdam,’” he said.
Netflix and Hulu also canceled “woke shows” and defended comedians that have been attacked by progressives.
“Hulu canceled its original series, literally named ‘Woke,’ after just two seasons. Netflix nixed an animated series based on Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Anti-Racist Baby’ book. The streaming giant similarly stood up for unwoke comedians like Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais, understanding their robust ratings dwarf the attacks on them,” he pointed out.
Well yikes.
Will this string of un-fortune dampen World Surf League financier Dirk Ziff’s passion for doing the right thing?
Professional surfing turning back to the butts n boobs heyday of yore?
Candles lit for not.
…an extended version of this would make a great listicle long form read …. save me from having to pass the time searching for Dane’s old posts
So woke I can’t sleep
In the Tracks Nick Carroll type world Nat was god , to many others a prick , less written about his involvement in surfing the better , and more about the likes of Judy even better.
autocorrect is only topped by turning on the boob-tube and getting no signal…no matter how you push the remote buttons…and re-booting doesn’t work either…what’s left?
having to re-read past BG blogs and probs edit some shit I posted weeks ago…or yank out Welcome To Paradise for a re-read…might as well go to the beach and hang under the lifeguard tower…drinking and saving cig-butts so I don’t get arrested!
i don’t hate…symetrical B to C cups boobs!
How do you feel about air spinnies and reverse air spinnies on closeout sections?
Going backside vs frontside?
about the same as watching The Bones Brigade documentary…no hate, just dis-Like very much…skateboards were our earliest means of transport, one bad fall and there’s no destination met!
True true… Maybe Elon should take over for Elo after defeating the woke-mind-virus(TM) and ushering a new era of free speech absolutism in/on/at/within Twitter.
Pro surfing should remain non-political. Men and women should be scored by their waves. Not their skin color, gender or lack of knowing their gender.
To the woke Stephany Gilmore. You want more money? Bring more fans, sell more products or compete againt the men where the purse is higher because that’s what they do.
There is no free lunch…
Fox is constantly talking about woke culture, so woke content is making them money. BG continually posts articles on woke happenings, organizations, and people. Seems like BG disagrees with the Go Woke Go Broke premise too. This exact article on woke-ism is a fine example of how click worthy articles on everything woke actually are. Love it or hate it, Woke content gets clicks and comments. Look at all the seemingly free press the WSL gets from BG over their “woke stance”.
Yeah but the woke shit is getting tired and the click’s are slowing down. Even politically they know its not a huge sell anymore.
If it is slowing down, it simply might be less divisive these days. Fox can harp on how terrible wokeness is but it’s not pissing their own viewership off like it use too. People are getting use to Media being more diverse and their worlds aren’t falling apart because of it. Sure people are tired of being preached to from both sides, but things are getting more diverse with less virtue signaling/preaching. Look at the success of White Lotus, diversity opens up entertaining story lines, without leaving a preachy after taste. We can also say Fox News viewership is being well represented in social media coverage with all clips of Karen’s fully expressing their passion for the past. They even get some coverage here on BG alongside all the VAL representation. Diverse.
In a world where wokeness and the loony left have risen , the affect also has another interesting affect. The rise of the Rabid Right or young white males searching for their place…Andrew Tate?
So wokeness has increased the fragmentation of our civilization all in the name of” progressives” or will time show that they were truly regressive?
Far right and far left ideology existed long before wokeness.
slight edit: ‘[dumb people with personal agendas of all idealogies] existed long before wokeness.’ …also, impact of religion huge part of it all…the sooner we can all just chill out about whether some unseen ghost presence gets to set the rules for the world, the better.
Funny my initial thought was to say something about how easily idiotic ideologies spread on the internet and how there is no shortage of idiots to follow them. But ya, the personal agendas of the people pushing those ideologies can’t be left out. Thanks for the edit!
try QAnon……..????
Not looking for a vague conspiracy to make the chaotic world feel more ordered, or to give me a false sense of being in on secret info that elevates a malignant narcissist to the position of savior. In short, religion just doesn’t appeal to me. But to each their own, I’m not judging. I’ll leave that to god.
There’s left and right ideology, but then there’s looking to your right, then left before voting. That’s what drove a lot of the bleak ideals my parent’s generation foisted on the world, but the same now seems to be informing the woke at the opposite end of the ideals spectrum.
yes but to the level we see now…..???
the World is now more connected than ever , but more divisive than ever. The woke left now have a much stronger voice as do the Rabid righters……so the affect is increasing fragmentation in our society/civilization……more is better?
our commenters are much funnier than Fox’s…Gateway Pundit’s on the other hand deliver. but the only time i posted there, a flood of chick bots invaded me on BG…kinda like MR’s shingles…
Chas and Derek, brazilian media reporting that the wave ranch is shutting down and will eventually swap tech to wavegarden cove.
Is this worth a “surf journalism” or too surf adjacent?
Links?
https://www.msn.com/pt-pt/n…
I think you’re making it up.
I’d never lie to you, Negs!
Apologies, it was an successful attempt to use physiological manipulation to gain the information. Surf Journalism just wasn’t going to happen . Thanks!
Try this
https://www.google.com/sear…
or re-zoned for sustainable aquaculture…
Manly is on pussy fire this arvo.
Yeet!!
https://youtu.be/9lbNLzRRNGw
Zip should of just let Kelly bone his wife for a modest few million and he could of saved all those millions wasted on paying for the tour all these years.
I’m struggling with this post as I don’t know if Ziff’s wife is worthy of the KS bone. But this article has me slightly more troubled as there is not a single mention of Sasha Jane’s exploits and Fox News needs to learn about her/his/it’s incredible efforts in ’22 as those efforts would have the Fox crowd cheering for more!
Sash isnt Fox material
My guess is most Fox viewers have secret fetishes…
Those fetishes probably pale in comparison to the ones people in this comment section enjoy.
THIS!!!!