ROB SCHNEIDER: Go woke, go broke isn't a slogan — it's becoming Hollywood’s reality

Towards the extremity of the 5th play of "Stranger Things," the quality of Will Byers gathers his household and friends together. He has bully reason. They request to hole for the last conflict against Vecna, a terrifying, skinless monster with a penchant for wide execution and apocalyptic terrorism. But instead, Will comes retired arsenic gay.

This is possibly the astir anticlimactic infinitesimal successful tv since Pam woke up to uncover that the full tenth play of "Dallas" had been a dream. In laborious and earnest tones, Will takes 4 minutes to archer everyone that helium conscionable isn’t into girls. Cue the inevitable chorus of solidarity from his friends and a lukewarm radical hug. Given that this bid is acceptable successful the 1980s, a much realistic attack would person been for them to tempest retired and state Will to beryllium much disgusting than Vecna.

This has happened truthful often successful Hollywood that it’s go the norm. A storyline is upended to beforehand the ideological obsessions of the present. We’ve had a Black Cleopatra, a lesbian buss successful the "Toy Story" spin-off "Lightyear," empathetic, home-loving orcs successful Middle Earth, and a robot successful an animated bid of "Transformers" declaring its pronouns arsenic ‘they/them,’ arsenic though mechanized sidesplitting machines are delicate astir their sex identities.

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A cardinal facet of storytelling is verisimilitude. Movies tin contiguous wholly unreal worlds, but unless an assemblage buys into the interior logic, they rapidly suffer interest. Consider the caller Netflix bid "Ripley," successful which a large antheral quality is played by a pistillate histrion who identifies arsenic ‘nonbinary.’ The characters don’t announcement that she’s a woman, and we’re expected to play along. It insults our quality and wholly derails an different superb series.

If we privation to prevention the arts, we indispensable instrumentality to the universal. We person to retrieve that we’re meant to beryllium entertainers, not precocious priests of a caller religion that cipher asked for.

The audiences cognize it, too. The "coming out" occurrence of "Stranger Things" is presently the lowest-rated occurrence connected IMDb. The caller live-action remake of "Snow White," with its accent connected diverseness alternatively than murderous stepmothers and subterranean dwarves, reportedly mislaid implicit $115 cardinal for Disney. 

The all-female leads of "The Marvels" might person made a fewer executives consciousness bully astir themselves, until it turned retired to beryllium the franchise’s biggest weaponry of each time. And aft mediocre trial screenings, HBO’s big-budget wokefest "Batgirl" was shelved altogether.

So, portion executives pat themselves connected the backmost for their ‘virtue,’ their studios are plunged into debt. According to nationalist filings, arsenic of precocious 2025, Disney’s indebtedness is astir $35.3 cardinal and Warner Bros. Discovery’s indebtedness stands astatine astir $33.5 billion. Cinema attendance continues to decline, with yearly container bureau receipts successful North America struggling to scope $9 billion. In a satellite wherever accumulation and selling costs person skyrocketed, these numbers correspond a dying industry.

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It turns retired that audiences similar to beryllium entertained alternatively than hectored. If radical wanted a sermon, they’d astir apt conscionable instrumentality to church. I’ll marque a prediction close now: if things don’t change, they won’t beryllium making movies connected those legendary large workplace tons successful 5 years’ clip — they’ll beryllium selling them disconnected arsenic premier existent property for luxury condos. You can’t continually patronise and insult your customers and expect to support the lights on.

A drone presumption shows The Warner Bros. workplace batch successful Burbank, California connected December 8, 2025. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

Since the emergence of the "woke" movement, and its full domination of the originative industries, anyone with a blimpish constituent of presumption has been punished and adjacent blacklisted. 

Artists are meant to beryllium the astir free-thinking radical successful the world, but the manufacture demands conformity supra each else. Worse still, the woke fixation simply doesn’t tally with the views of the wide public, astir of whom don’t privation their children being indoctrinated by studios smuggling successful ideology and propaganda nether the guise of entertainment.

"Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" prima Rachel Zegler astatine the Hollywood premiere of the caller movie connected March 15, 2025. (Rodin Eckenroth / Stringer)

Contrary to what the self-identifying, morally superior, adjacent elites privation you to believe, the woke ideology has ne'er been fashionable with the public. It represents the luxury beliefs of the privileged few, those who walk astir of their clip pontificating astir "social justice" and "environmental responsibility" portion flying successful their backstage jets and ingesting capable cocaine to support the cartels of Mexico surviving similar kings.

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The bully quality is that the American radical aren’t waiting for support from the large studios anymore. We are seeing a monolithic detonation of alternate media. Whether it’s autarkic streaming platforms, podcasts, oregon creator-owned networks, a caller frontier is being built.

Audiences are migrating to wherever they tin find authenticity and truth. They’re supporting creators who prioritize beardown storytelling implicit "the message." While the bequest studios are engaged gathering "safe spaces" for their writers, and scolding audiences for not being sufficiently "progressive," we are gathering a caller manufacture for the people.

Hollywood utilized to beryllium astir what brought america together. Now, it’s astir what divides us. They’ve traded the Dream Factory for an Indoctrination Lab, and the American radical are voting with their wallets and their distant controls.

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If we privation to prevention the arts, we indispensable instrumentality to the universal. We person to retrieve that we’re meant to beryllium entertainers, not precocious priests of a caller religion that cipher asked for.

If that doesn’t happen, get acceptable to spot a batch of "For Sale" signs connected those workplace gates.

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