Hollywood Went Woke, And Now They're Broke

When you consider the debt they are in, they are looking up at broke. More on that in a bit. ROB SCHNEIDER: Go woke, go broke isn't a slogan — it's becoming Hollywood’s reality

Hollywood used to be about what brought us together. Now, it’s about what divides us. They’ve traded the Dream Factory for an Indoctrination Lab

Rob Schneider. That is a name I have not heard in a long time, but then I never really cared for the movies he was in. Not that they were bad, just not for me.

The article starts with a discussion of the coming-out scene in the penultimate episode of Stranger Things.

This is perhaps the most anticlimactic moment in television since Pam woke up to reveal that the entire tenth season of "Dallas" had been a dream.

And they go on to discuss why this is totally out of place in a show ostensibly set in the '80s. Apparently the people making the creative decisions in Hollywood don't remember the '80s. (Either they are too young, or they did too many drugs.)

So, while executives pat themselves on the back for their "virtue," their studios are plunged into debt. According to public filings, as of late 2025, Disney’s debt is roughly $35.3 billion and Warner Bros. Discovery’s debt stands at approximately $33.5 billion. Cinema attendance continues to decline, with annual box office receipts in North America struggling to reach $9 billion. In a world where production and marketing costs have skyrocketed, these numbers represent a dying industry.

It would be interesting to see how much Hollywood spent to generate that $9 billion. Given that theaters get about half of the box office, it would be interesting to see how much Hollywood spent to generate their $4.5 million (or so) cut of the box office.

Disney is interesting, because I'm reasonably sure that spent more making movies last year than they made back in box office receipts. This is at a time when they are tearing up Walt Disney World to erase anything that has even a whiff of Americana, and their conversion of Splash Mountain to the Bayou, or whatever, is not going too well, because the current crop of Imagineers decided to use electromechanical actuators for animatronics instead of hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders. (Electricity and water - or even a very humid environment don't go together, unless you take extra precautions.)

Contrary to what the self-identifying, morally superior, adjacent elites want you to believe, the woke ideology has never been popular with the public. It represents the luxury beliefs of the privileged few, those who spend most of their time pontificating about "social justice" and "environmental responsibility" while flying in their private jets and ingesting enough cocaine to keep the cartels of Mexico living like kings.

There is more. Some comments are parents not wanting their kids indoctrinated, the rise of YouTube and other alternative forms of entertainment, etc.

If we want to save the arts, we must return to the universal. We have to remember that we’re meant to be entertainers, not high priests of a new religion that nobody asked for.

Click thru. I may have to give the current Rob Schneider another look.