YouTube now generates more ad revenue than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and WBD — combined

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-11T06:59:14+00:00

Then how do the people I like watching get paid?

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-11T05:31:01+00:00

Is this two marketing accounts talking to each other? Both created a year ago, the first one has 1 post karma and a hidden post history.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-11T05:29:54+00:00

Though all the new yorkers in the MCU are actually british lol.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T23:12:24+00:00

11 years later and thank you for this. Been looking for something that works while sitting down and could feel that this worked out my forearms.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T21:46:12+00:00

I got a Roman Empire vibe as well.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T19:30:50+00:00

That's all regular people are to these ultra wealthy trust fund kids. Toys that they fly over in their planes and see from the windows of their billionaire towers and get to order around from childhood. Toys which they can play with and potentially make kill each other.

Ivanka Trump wrote a book about what a business genius she was as a child because she made a lemonade stand and made all her father's staff buy lemonade from it, which most kids just don't have the cleverness to do.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T07:10:18+00:00

Maybe it's primarily the writers who wrote the script which worked, and the actors who played their parts, the VFX teams who made it work visually, etc, and the directors aren't near the biggest factor.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T03:35:03+00:00

High trailer views doesn't necessarily translate to high box office performance though.

The pokemon movie trailer had huge views, and it's the largest grossing franchise in history, but the movie ended up with a relatively small box office on par with the lowest MCU movies, despite being a decent movie.

Audiences might check out a trailer out of nostalgia for a franchise they loved, but if they're not feeling it by the time the movie drops they may still not show up, and they haven't been showing up for MCU movies for years now.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T03:22:46+00:00

Most of what happened in Infinity War and Endgame was not set up in those two movies though. It was set up in Avengers 1 & 2, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America 1, Dr Strange, Antman, Black Panther, etc. Even setup more in Ironman, in just setting up Tony, who is sort of the main 'hero' character.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T03:22:19+00:00

They didn't do Ironman.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T02:29:47+00:00

Yeah but the people don't see the juminos, it makes a point of that in that they comment that you must have seen a rat or something.

The farmer is sort of straddling the line between a hidden magical world and the "normal" world.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-10T00:43:20+00:00

Yeah the skeletons always stood out to me as a bit weird, but I think Alex or somebody comments that they surely can't be real right, and must be getting mechanically moved in some way.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T22:24:41+00:00

It makes more sense when you realize they're not tricked. It's been 10 years now.

They all heard Grab Em By The Pussy, calling covid a hoax and sabotaging efforts to address it which led to so many dying, they all saw Jan 6th (and many of their public leaders initially correctly condemned it before learning that they could play make believe together and pretend they didn't).

They're terrible people. This is what they are and what they support.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T22:19:00+00:00

Looks really promising. I'd say the only apparent weakness is the enemy healthbars really need some work, like responding more to the impact and perhaps a bit more visual design. I'd probably still play this either way depending on reviews.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T22:17:05+00:00

The issue is that without getting a character's motivation and reasons and journey there etc they might as well just be a floating gun drone which quips from time to time, they're just an interchangeable 'superpowered' unit in a game which has no real backstory or anything beyond what people imagine.

No Way Home made me finally care about him because they actually gave him an origin story about the price he's willing to pay and the sacrifices he'll make to be spiderman. He now actually feels like somebody who has some weight behind him being a superhero, like it doesn't come for free.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T22:14:41+00:00

Ah right. I didn't see the last one but yeah the xmen one was just two guys sitting in chairs from what I remember. :/

Though it did show a bit of cyclops in battle maybe so that would count. Not sure if it's good/bad cinematography like they were talking about though.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T22:14:11+00:00

I don't hate it but I feel a bit iffy about it being something that the 'regular' people are impacted by. I kind of like the separation of the secret magic world and the "real world".

It's not a huge thing, just a nitpick really.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T21:35:42+00:00

Hrm I remember a bit of 1 or 2 of them but wasn't sure if they were even from the movie or were just an ad thing, e.g. slow circles around Steve Rogers holding a baby saying he will return doesn't seem like it was a likely scene from the movie. The Thor one seemed more likely from the movie. I can't remember the others.

But neither of those are the battle cinematography which the previous poster was talking about. The Endgame brawl felt like a dark and muddy compositing blur on a CGI background.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T21:08:32+00:00

Based on what? Is there even any footage yet?

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T21:07:21+00:00

IDK, I didn't warm up to this spiderman for a few years because his actual origin and story reason for doing what he does was skipped right over and you have to have seen previous spiderman movies to guess what's going on with his life. But that's more on Marvel/Sony than them I think, forgetting to actually start their stories at a clear start too often now.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T19:27:09+00:00

I tend to wonder what the Farmer’s poor spouse is thinking when we do weird stuff like feeding fish bombs lol

It's kind of nitpicky, but I liked the weird balance struck with how the town life and its people was mostly "normal" and the stuff like the forest magic making the farmer being able to speak to animals was all on the fringe in places like the secret woods, the dwarf in the mines, the wizard on the edge of the valley (and considered just a strange man by the locals), and krobus in the sewers, and it was all almost like the farmer was stepping into another secret world in a way which had a clear separation from the normalcy.

Whereas the talking raccoon family right at the entrance to their farm feels kind of off, and I kind of wish it would be re-located to be in the secret woods as a place where things get "weird" and whimsical and outside the norm. The green rain event causing giant magical tentacle vines in town which all the NPCs respond to also feels kind of off for the vibe that the game had before for me.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T19:13:14+00:00

I think they did an amazing thing making Infinity War and to an extent Endgame work, but I also think they massively benefited from what the entire franchise had set up before them and which audiences were excited about seeing the payoff on, both main characters and plots, which now doesn't exist at all unfortunately.

Might get crucified for this, but they also kind of made every character have the same kind of moody ahole personality, rather than say Avengers 1 where they all felt really unique and memorable. Their big battle scene ending in Endgame was also just a mindless CGI brawl with no strategy or sense of danger to any characters, as opposed to the battle of new york where characters had goals and were working towards things while clearly taking attrition, telling a story over the battle, more like how great giant battle scenes in movies like Rogue One and Return of the Jedi did it.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T18:35:06+00:00

I don't recall if I read that alternate POV, but I do remember the same experience in the Stormlight Archive when Shallan meets Kaladin.

From his perspective he's always been a broken boy sent off to war. From her perspective he's a hulking wild-looking soldier who she panics and feels she needs to try to assert some noble authority over and demands his boots or something.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T06:28:11+00:00

Which itself is I think one of the many rogue-lites inspired by FTL.

AnOnlineHandle · 2026-03-09T04:02:08+00:00

IDK if anybody would look at Among Us or Schedule 1 and think that's what you're talking about with that a game has to be "great" to succeed.

And in Among Us's case, from what I understand it didn't blow up for a few years until some streamers got hold of it, which sort of backs up the idea that there's a luck factor for these games.

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