HollyGeddon: Data Reporting

Okay so major update regarding HollyGeddon (which is what I'm calling the simultaneous strikes of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA that's causing no movies or series to get made or promoted), I didn't have this when I made my first HollyGeddon post but I now have the SAG-AFTRA list of proposals and where they were at when they called the strike. The WGA also posted theirs like right when they went on strike which is how I knew exactly what was working and what wasn't working (next to nothing was working). If you're interested in the strikes, these are essential reads.

SAG-AFTRA is definitely further along than WGA is, for one there's actually a lot of small stuff that they agreed on (one of the most interesting agreements is that "actors [will not] be required to translate their own scripts without payment", implying that has been going on for a while). Still a bunch of fucked up comments, the one about Performance Capture is shockingly distasteful.

The big thing I got from reading it, big enough to make this update, is that SAG-AFTRA gave up on forcing streamers to have YouTube style view counts. Under Data Reporting it says that "SAG-AFTRA has withdrawn the proposal that the AMPTP provide the union with information necessary to determine where its members are earning their compensation." Now, that doesn't explicitly mean the viewership count is off the table, nor does it imply that's what SAG-AFTRA meant by Data Reporting. For what it's worth, the WGA are the ones that are specifically asking for this YouTube style view counts thing. But SAG-AFTRA giving up on this single proposal tells me we're not getting public Netflix view counts.

With that being said, both guilds are still adamantly fighting for streaming residuals. They're not going to get the behind the scenes numbers, but as long as they get their checks and the checks seem fair then I don't think they're going to care about public viewership numbers.

It's only Day 5 of HollyGeddon.