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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 09:00:09 am ---Creators losing control of their content is not a new phenomenon[1]. It is written into the contract between creators and distributors. Maybe that is/was a "Faustian bargain", but both parties did enter into it willingly.
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Yes. I've said it was a bad business decision on Adam's part. Classic example in fact.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 09:00:09 am ---My point, which Zero999 has not contested, is that people do still have the choice. A different choice, but a choice nonetheless.

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It would be like me losing my website, my Youtube channels, all my alternative video channels, and every revenue stream I had. And my only remaining option would be to put new content behind a Patreon or Locals paywall.
Yes my content would still be technically available, and people would still have a choice, but it has totally changed the game for everyone.
He and practically all his readers got nuked. And in his case we are talking millions of people beign left with nothing unless they pony up $7/month on a platform they almost certainly don't use for anything else.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 15, 2023, 10:02:57 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 09:17:07 am ---A principal difference between adults and children is that adults are expected to take responsibility for their actions and accept the consequences. I presume Adams is doing that gracefully.
But are other people being "proactively offended" on his behalf?
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The opposite. White SJW's are being proactively offended on behalf of black people. Nothing new there, that's how the modern world operates.
But yes, Adams is taking is gracefully. This not an off-handed remark on his part, he deliberately put his career on the line to steer the race issue in a different direction. That's not me guessing, he's admitted this.

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I don't think that's an opposite. It is a different and unrelated issue, in a related area.

Anyone choosing to challenge the status quo in a contentious area such as race (or religion, or...) has to do it with extreme grace, subtlety and pace. Without that, it is impossible to lead the middle ground. Very few have the personality to be successful in that way.

Examples of how to do it: in the 60s people like Martin Luther King Jr, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte (and more passively Nichelle Nichols). President Obama was the 00s poster child.

Examples of how not to do it: SJWs and (apparently) Adams. There are too many others, in too many fields.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 15, 2023, 10:18:54 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 09:00:09 am ---My point, which Zero999 has not contested, is that people do still have the choice. A different choice, but a choice nonetheless.

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It would be like me losing my website, my Youtube channels, all my alternative video channels, and every revenue stream I had. And my only remaining option would be to put new content behind a Patreon or Locals paywall.
Yes my content would still be technically available, and people would still have a choice, but it has totally changed the game for everyone.
He and practically all his readers got nuked. And in his case we are talking millions of people beign left with nothing unless they pony up $7/month on a platform they almost certainly don't use for anything else.

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Agreed; painful for all. But his readers do have a option: to stop being freeloaders. How many choose take that option will be some form of indication of how much they value his current and future work.

My own view... Adams' content was slowly becoming stale and repetitive and therefore less compelling. After 30 years, that's an unsurprising fate that has befallen many others, e.g. Peanuts, Andy Capp, Bristow, The Gambols, Fred Bassett, etc. Adams chose to counteract staleness by making his content more, um, contentious. We'll see how that turns out.

One "workplace strip comic" that is at least as good as Dilbert is the 35yo Alex cartoon. It has avoided becoming stale because it is inspired by current events, is sharply and viciously skewers its "subjects" - and they almost revel in it. (I've just noticed there is a "30 years ago" section, giving people a chance to relive their schadenfreude; excellent)
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 15, 2023, 12:09:52 pm ---Agreed; painful for all. But his readers do have a option: to stop being freeloaders. How many choose take that option will be some form of indication of how much they value his current and future work.

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I didn't consider myself a freeloader having gotten the "free" daily newsletter with the strip. The email was plastered with ads. Same for the newspaper, you bought the newspaper and at least some small fraction of that went to Adams.
Plus I have bought several Dilbert books over the years.
Same way my videos are "free", I made a fractional token amount per view, and it maybe leads to other sales of my stuff.
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