rant · moment 2 of 17
The Writers' Strike and Fat Activism's Marketing Problem
from Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342 · #342
3 min
Tim jokes about not caring about the WGA strike, mocks the writers' lack of marketing savvy, and pivots into a riff on how fat activism came too late for acceptance compared to gay rights, which led with hot people first.
- Tim on the writers' strike: his fans have no interest in 'theater kid stuff' or 'gay Hollywood imaginations.'
- Digital content changed everything—studios realized there were no rules, so they stopped paying writers entirely.
- Tim claims nobody loves Hollywood sitcom writers more than he does and they've said lovely things about him on Twitter.
- WGA's marketing problem: sad-sack hipster picketers failed to make people care; they needed levity and a whoopee cushion.
- Tim has a writer friend who'll strike, which means Tim gets screwed, because 'everyone's obese' on Long Island.
- Any minority group can't be fat at the beginning—gay people succeeded by leading with hot men, not getting fat and joining fat activism.
- Once straight people find an attractive minority member attractive, they stop wanting to kill them.
- Fat involvement immediately switches it into a war on two fronts and ruins the entire movement.
Writers Guild of AmericaJoe Roganwriters guild strikeAndrew SchulzTheo Von