Chick-fil-A may be getting into the streaming wars.
  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1163·
    23 days ago

    So can they stream live footage of tortured children from the anti-gay conversion camps they help fund? Maybe make people think twice about buying food there?

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      251·
      23 days ago

      Probably… not? You get so much more money when you lie. So they’ll say how much then are “helping them”, “saving their souls” (cough Spanish Inquisition cough), and the like. Lying is just kinda like, their whole thing, ya’know, bless their whittle hearts!

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    56·
    23 days ago

    Likely some C-suite person who feels like they are actually an innovator instead of yet another MBA with too much power. To prove it, they’re going to start a service that no one will use at a company no one respects so that they can brag about their “greatness” to equally clueless investors.

  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
    5714·
    23 days ago

    So it sounds like nobody in this thread looked at the actual article.

    This isn’t chic-fil-a. It’s the homophobic bigoted billionaire asshole who has turned a town south of atlanta georgia to a 2.7 billion dollar movie making industry by building a movie making compound. He’s trying to usurp hollywood. His studios have been the filming location for many major blockbuster movies in the past several years.

    The article even mentions that the guy has sold 200 homes to the tune of 110 million dollars right by the studios so obviously he’s diversifying beyond chicken.

    If there’s a market for christian shit i’m sure he’ll capture it, but i’m sure they will focus on what sells. Maybe they will try to be the epic games of streaming services where they undercut the competition by hiring cheaper labor and taking a smaller cut from the people who pay to use the studios the guy owns.

    Unlike steam, nobody loves netflix, disney, hbo or any of the awful streaming services there are now. Even crunchyroll which is a bargain has a fucking awful app and streaming quality issues. Since you don’t “own” the movies on the platform you rent access to there’s no lock-in or cult following like there is with steam. Because of all this… people will go to whoever provides the best service.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      39·
      23 days ago

      Seems you read an entirely different article…

      Chick-fil-A is reportedly launching a

      but that is apparently what Chick-fil-A (yes, the fast food chain) is planning to do.

      Deadline reports that Chick-fil-A is

      Chick-fil-A has yet to announce or publicly comment

      All the article OP posted mentions, beyond saying Chick-fil-A is doing this, is:

      But it feels important to bear in mind that Chick-fil-A is owned by the Cathy family, whose independently managed trust was instrumental in the foundation of Trilith Studios – the Atlanta studio most well known for its frequent work for Marvel.

      I’m not disputing what you’ve said about who’s actually behind this; but to talk down to everyone here like that info was already given to them is rather shitty.

    • we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      23 days ago

      If there’s a market for christian shit i’m sure he’ll capture it

      There is and he absolutely will. The market for “Christian” specific everything is huge. People that buy that sorta shit also generally don’t know what a good product actually is so costs can be cut and noone’s the wiser.

    • haunte@leminal.spaceEnglish
      11·
      23 days ago

      If there’s a market for christian shit i’m sure he’ll capture it, but i’m sure they will focus on what sells.

      If the target audience is the evangelicals everything will be rated PG at most and it will conform to right wing echo chamber politics and scruples. This sounds like a “Disney is too woke so let’s do it ourselves” proposal. It might succeed with that audience but they can’t go beyond it or those people throw a fit. And the market is too crowded to try to do what the other streamers do. It will be filled with Hallmark level Christmas movies and tame/lame rip offs of other studios content.

  • JakenVeina@lemm.eeEnglish
    252·
    22 days ago

    Makes about as much as Netflix’s current attempts to muscle in on the gaming market, Epic-style.

    Why I continue to be surprised by corporate decision-making is beyond me.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      22 days ago

      Why I continue to be surprised by corporate decision-making is beyond me.

      "THEY MAKE LINE GO UP WITH STUFF.

      ME WANT MAKE STUFF MAKE LINE GO UP TOO.

      ME MAKE SAME STUFF THEY DO. SPEND BILLIONS TO MAKE LINE GO UP 2%

      WHY WE LOSE MONEY?!"

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      22 days ago

      At least that halfway makes sense. Netflix on a laptop means games too.

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
      48·
      22 days ago

      Oh yeah totally, a media streaming company trying to stream different kinds of media is exactly the same as a fucking fast food restaurant getting into media streaming. Did you even read your own comment before hitting submit?

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    22 days ago

    So, they are trying to speed run the failure of McDonald’s experiment with Redbox. Instead of creating a massively successful brand that eventually gets bought up and run into the ground by Christian nutjobs, the Christian nutjobs are starting a video business to crater on their own.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      Redbox wasn’t a failure. It was actually quite profitable in its day. It just got outclassed by streaming, as did every physical media rental service. I don’t know if Netflix even sends discs out anymore, if they do I’d bet money that it’s severely less than what it once was.

      • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Sept 29, 2023, the last DVD to go out was True Grit.

        I looked it up cause I remember reading about it ending fairly recently.

  • QubaXR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    23 days ago

    They already run what seems to be every other post on Reddit, so why not streaming, too.

      • BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        151·
        23 days ago

        So, you know how Reddit has posts? Well something like 53% of those Reddit posts are posted by chick-fil-a agents for various reasons.

        Ever since they won the chicken sandwich wars of the early 20s they’ve been focused on invading media spaces, often quite aggressively.

        Reddit is essentially a chicken sandwich propaganda wing of the massive chicken chain at this point, still quite a bit of porn though luckily. Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

        • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          23 days ago

          They may have won the chicken sandwich wars, but Taco Bell will be the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars.

          • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            23 days ago

            And with no more competition, they’ll go all fancy. Makes one wonder where you’d be able to get a decent burger anymore.

            • XTL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              22 days ago

              The sewer people. They’ve got an underground barbecue going.

        • hopesdead@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          23 days ago

          Chicken sandwich porn? When Popeyes came out with their sandwich, there was a trending video on Pornhub soon after titled “PAWG let me Fuck her for a Popeyes Chicken Sandwich”. The Internet beat you to that.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          2·
          23 days ago

          Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

          Pepperidge farm remembers (shudder).

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        Advertisers and AI bots have taken over reddit ever since Google made them the new SEO technique.

      • QubaXR@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        If you go to Reddit, you will inevitably very quickly come by posts that seem to be from regular users, but are actually fill-a ads.

        Funny thing happened and I just happened to be eating their food when I filmed it. We did a thing and it failed at other joints but succeeded at their place. My dog can do a cool thing with their box, etc etc.

        It feels like they have an army of as people dedicated to creating this content.

        It started soon after they got a lot of bad press for finding anti-LGBTQ organizations. Instead of changing their ways, they decided to change their image through social media posts and largely succeeded. Most people associate their brand with good times now, even though they don’t know why.

        Much like whenever US police murders someone, Web gets flooded with memes and videos of cops doing fun things and being generally great fun.

    • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      They should hire you instead of whoever came up with the bonehead idea of starting a streaming service.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    23 days ago

    Is it wrong that my dream for this is that it solely pays for development of incredibly gay coded TV shows, that the owners are too homophobic to recognize?

    I don’t wish that on any fabulous creatives, but I do wish that for all the money Chik-Fil-A is gonna waste on this.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      I guarantee you they are doing this to specifically generate more cis/hetero content and will keep a close eye on that.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    23 days ago

    Family friendly unscripted programs.

    Are we talking '90s Nickelodeon, or real housewives of the rust belt?

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      We should be so lucky to get 90s Nickelodeon! No, I think the article said it’s going to be mostly original programming so it’s a safe bet whatever it is will be like Hallmark on steroids

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        8·
        23 days ago

        Hallmark is an abomination to everything decent in the world. The movie channel, not the cards I mean:-).

        Also, I’m literally struggling imagining how it could possibly get more saccharine than it already is?! Hasn’t it reached peak levels of evilness already, at which point where would they even go from there?

        Probably just videos where you watch gay people get beat up (nonbinary and such would be too confusing to them to even watch). So “Christian” S&M.