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I don't like how ProZD is pandering to these companies by making CEO so articulate and intelligent
That was hilarious 😂
Omg best comment I’ve read in forever
It's not pandering, he's clearly just been misguided by propaganda
Then you're gonna hate Brendan from College Humor.
@@N_IRL what propaganda is there that satarizes CEOs as insatiable money monsters? How is he misguided?
Smarter than the average CEO. He articulated what he wanted and didn't resort to corporate jargon to cover up his incompetence.
Didn’t even use the word synergy once. What a legend.
@@GdoubleWB or family
or words like scalability....
I’d work for him
As a business student I hate how much these terms are shoved down our throats like nothing. Memorizing them is essential to pass exams, so it's no wonder how much they persist in modern practice without much actual thought and meaning behind them.
Merging companies: "Don't worry, we're not going to make any major changes. Just a few behind-the-scenes administrative tweaks. Everything else is business as normal"
Also merging companies: **Cancels your projects and lays you off because you're no longer a useful employee**
**Also proceeds to f#**#k** up X thing you were really looking forward to**
Or *triples your work because don't want to hire or manage new people to cover the larger amount of work happening (or they're firing people and passing their work off to others) due to this, but offers no one any sort of raise. oh, and you work in a different location starting Monday. No, we won't help cover your costs for that - good luck!*
Someone once explained to me that this happens not because they have any qualms or think X product won’t make them any money, but instead to demonstrate their power.
Basically they come in and seriously hamper or mess up a project in development or even completed to show people that they are in charge, sometimes they’ll just lay off people for that same purpose as well.
You know like tyranny.
Like Square Enix and Hironobu Sakaguchi
at this point i want them to lay me off
He may be the most honest, straightforward CEO, unwilling to bother with corporate/politician speak and instead proudly announces his wants from the company and general public.
That’s a good CEO right there, better than a lot of what we see.
Direct, transparent and mostly articulate.
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Made me laugh
Yes and not directly abusing those under him, that's another plus.
And he's quite honest with where his priorities lie
how did nobody realize the link i posted was a rickroll
Absolute mad lad recorded inside the Warner Bros office. Respect
He’s had a hidden camera there ever since Titans.
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@@TheTruepanther ngl I got a headache after seeing so many bots and trying to report them
These bots should go screw themselves
Hearing ProZD yell "MONEY!" like the cookie monster made my day.
After the recent news of HBO Max getting rid of shows and pretending like they never existed, it makes this skit all the more accurate.
It was always accurate and always will be accurate because this is how corporate mergers work.
The last “you don’t eat money” really struck a chord within me, some people are stupid
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Yeah, he was so stupid... Not eating money? Thats absurd!
look, sometimes you just get desperate ya know
*Me, chewing on a nickel*
Wait... you don't?
I don’t think the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery actually eats money
ProZD is entering into his skit phase again, and I'm all for it
His creative juices are flowing
I am ready.
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Illegal to be this early
It's to pay for his mortgage, so yay capitalism!
The CEO is at least honest and straightforward, his only redeeming qualities.
The sincerity and defeat in his voice with "You don't eat money." Gets me every time.
a CEO of that caliber is gonna watch this and go “that’s not how it works at all” while simultaneously eating their fifth $30 ice cream bar with gold shavings
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At least CEOs are too stupid to realize how good molten gold tastes.
(This is reverse psychology, I'm trying to make a rich person drink gold and die)
believe it or not, ceos of that kind of companies are extremly picky spenders and rarely spend anything. they rather cut costs 5 times before spending once
I’m the ice cream bar, I can confirm
A baby human’s first words is usually “mommy”.
His first words were “MONEY”.
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Am I a bot too? Idk
Mr.crab be like: relatable
ALL WE NEED IS MORE MUNNEH
Pretty much babies that are born into rich families first word
SIGMA GRINDSET
Just about 2 weeks after and we got the worst news; as of right now, Cartoon Network ceased it's existence, with all cartoons being deleted from Discovery's platforms, including planned ones in the future, with the intention of saving tens of millions of dollars, but instead losing over 2 billions in market cap.
Corporate Mergers are absolutely suicidal monsters.
Its also really sad and dangerous the state that animation is in. With the HBO Max purge a lot of animated series are just gone with some not being accessible except due to piracy (which the creators have publicly said on social media). A lot of them were even HBO Max originals and really recent. The creators were also not told anything which has led to a lot of conversations how the instability of being an animator now with this treatment being fairly common.
What sucks even more is how much this is happening. Ubisoft shutting down servers for over a dozen games and Nintendo is deleting their eshops and losing tons of classic and legacy games. Its not even for anything and doesn’t save that much.
@@vullord666 Id disagree with the Nintendo part, because closing a service that has been very inactive for so many years isnt farfetched, even if I didnt liked it closing, at least they announced beforehand
On the other hand, I heard that cancelling shows and deleting stuff allows them to not really pay their staff and creators, and sometimes those are tax writes off. So, the situations is even worse than we would have imagined
Don't forget that there's money to be made on the downslope, too. Whole-ass investment strategies wherein you drive a company you've been hired to salvage into bankruptcy while picking the bones clean.
After today's animation purge, this seems less like a joke and more like a spy cam inside Zaslav's office
As someone currently working in a place specialized in competition policy, this seems to accurately represent what happens with mergers and acquisitions in digital markets.
"Competition policy" ... if your product is worst than a competitor's. Why would anyone buy your product. Competition is the key from keeping our society from stagnating.
Don't you mean murders and executions?
@@beinteractive3207 but Bernie Sanders told me free money is the trick to stopping stagnation
@@beinteractive3207 competition only helps the consumer as long as it's the consumer's opinion they're competing for. Nowadays it's more profitable to compete to get the most eyes on your product and shut your rivals out of the space. Product quality can take a hit as long as the savings outweigh the cost of advertising and market manipulation. Those aren't things that benefit consumers.
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 😄 Bernie has been riding off a goverment pension since he learned the world millionaire. Now that he is a millionaire. He wants to go after the billionairs until he becomes one himself. Its so funny how Bernie made his money bashing the very economic system that rose him to the top. I bet that couldn't happen in any other type of economic system other than free market capitalism.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how close this is to Cookie Monster, but not so close so as to avoid infringing on international copyright laws?
"Run it's the cookie monster !"
Cookie monster is joyful and jolly. This man is clearly some sort of tortured Gollum-type figure.
Cookie Cash, the man on crack
Biscuit Creature is an entirely original character wtf
@@andreproudian7032 It looks like the Cookie Monster, but due to International Copyright Laws™, it's not.
Well, I'll give credit to this CEO because he's at least honest and direct.
Unlike the other CEOs who put NFTs in their games and are all like, "No, no, this is for the gamer's benefit. It's the future of gaming. We're helping struggling artists - no, it's not stolen!"
I remember watching Markiplier’s livestream of Poppy Playtime’s second chapter and was disappointed that Mark wasn’t all that satisfied. Makes it seem like they were focusing more on developing their NFTs than the actual game…
Thank God the NFT bubble burst
@@joshnolen2675 Yeah, but I kinda miss when they were a thing. It was so easy, they just release new project and we laughed at stupid people losing a lot of money. Now we gotta deal with all the shit that comes from AI as a topic and Im tired of it since like the first week it was a topic
I remember back when Microsoft acquired Bethesda, and they released a _trailer_ for it.
Just, think about that for a second, an announcement trailer for a corporate merger.
Holy shit, I can't believe you got an interview with one of the leading CEOs. You're really getting places man!
These damn bot replies, wish youtube would do something about them
@@question7208 Well, that would cost money...
MON-AAY!!
@@question7208 just keep reporting them
Activision-blizzard already has the money guy as their company ceo.
So does EA and Disney
This happens for every company ever honestly
literally every CEO is the money guy
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@@neilxdavis5359 suggestion: stop self promoting
He didn't sexually assault the person talking to him. Objectively the best American CEO
Oh my god, you’ve cracked the case. Wealthy CEOs don’t want money because of greed. They already have plenty of money to spend on whatever they want. They don’t want it to buy things. They want it because it tastes good.
As a recent victim of a corporate merger... this happens regardless of sector. There's a lot of shady 'build up a company and then sell it before it collapses' acquisitions going on in the american municipal-solutions world, folks.
Had a required course on startups (which was partly an ad for the master "Do you want to start your own business in ? Make one here!") and according to the teacher the ideal entrepreneur just tries out different ideas, cancels them fast if they are not successfull, then when one is decent blows it up quick and gets a very big company that feels threatened by this possible competitor to take it over (& run it into the ground so no competition happens) for say a couple dozen million, which can be used to make new companies and repeat the process.
Absolutely crazy system.
We built a system that rewards flipping shit, whether it's NFTs, or literal corporations. It's unsustainable.
I went through Superion -> CentralSquare myself...
Capitalism is theoretically great if it encouraged small businesses and competition but the existence of a capital-based system just means that corporations simply buy out every competitor or adjacent sector until you have an oligarchy of wealthy CEOs. My dad got laid off three times over his life because of M&A and just laughed when I got laid off from an internship before I had even entered the job market due to yet another acquisition.
It is a lot of why the medical industry is becoming so abusive to work for. Private equity groups buy up hospitals in piece meal fashion - one might own the ER, another buys up L&D, ect. - then sets increasingly tight restrictions on their budget, starts demanding they only buy a select list of products they they themselves get kick back from sales of, so forth and so on. Eventually, the hospital is stuck in a situation where it is bleeding qualified staff, is extremely profitable but unsustainable, but on paper looks fantastic to potential investors. The group that own that wing goes on to sell their rights to it, the buyers confident they are buying a growing package, and then they set their own restrictions and change things even more when the realize that that is how they actually get to make a profit off of healthcare.
The concepts of hospitals being non-profits is pretty much dead in America, and that plus insurance companies acting as highly parasitic middle men (themselves pretty much all being owned by only a small number of umbrellas as well), is why the cost of healthcare in the states is so dire. And again, it is all because the legislation that is supposed to protect from this sort of nonsense is constantly being killed off in favor of 'profit'.
Having two services, gutting the one that's far more successful by reducing doing the things that make it successful & duct taping it to the lesser service (while probably planning to raise the price) sure makes sense if you don't think about it.
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I hardly even read most of the words you wrote here and it definitely makes perfect sense to me! Genius plan!!
I used to work at a store that a merger occurred.
Our store had prices that were usually double that of our competition but people were willing to shop with us because we always took care of our product, the store was constantly cleaned (spotless floors), and our customer service was top tier.
Then after the merger occurred, new guys in place took away all benefits, told newer employees "your starting wage is shiet, and you're retirement/401k is shiet" etc. The main cause for concern though was that while they didn't touch the 401k plan (immediately) of existing employees, they did cut employee benefits, the main reason why even half the staff even bothered to work there in the first place, but hey! We all got a $1 raise! WOW!
Almost all the old staff who had stuck around because they liked to work and had no issues with the company that gave them excellent care, about 80% quit on the spot, and the new staff were shafted hard. I quit recently, but it's just not the same. People still go there to buy things, but the decline has been slowly passing through. Our top-tier store suddenly wasn't top tier, our god-tier customer service backed by people who had worked there for 40-50 years and knew the system in and out? Gone.
Store is still doing "fine", but it certainly isn't raking in absolute bucket-loads of cash like it used to. Sometimes corporate just needs to shove a shoe in their mouth and realize there's more to a business than just cutting costs and making things more "efficient".
If your "budget cuts" to help save money: ruin the workplace for employees, who then ruin the experience for the customer, you're kind of screwed.
Word on the grapevine is that they want HBO cable to be the sole entity of the HBO brand. There were 2 divisions of HBO. The streaming group and the cable group. Apparently, the new CEO thought it was stupid to have 2 groups of HBO, so instead of combining the 2 into one single entity, he decided to gut one (to save money) and keep the far inferior one since it is and I quote "Been tried and tested"..... Since its Discovery's CEO in charge of the ship, of course he is going to have preference for cable but still..... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Whole thing is a complete joke....
Discovery has more subscribers
this ages more and more like wine the longer it goes on for
"What's my character?"
"Cookie Monster meets Mr. Krabs"
"Got it."
"you don't eat money"
Oh poor people. They don't know the true reason for money existing.
I sure do love deep fried stacks of money
"What are these curous circles?"
"Do poor people eat these? "
Jeeves throw it to the poor!
Have you ever eaten a $100 bill? It tastes revolting. But if you can afford to do it then that means you're rich and that's where the real flavour is!
I ate a dollar bill when I was little and I never saw it come out.
what i find most hilarious about bat-girls cancelation is that they chose to toss that but keep the flash, a movie helmed by an accused kidnapper and now cult leader who is currently in the middle of a federal investigation. warner keeps making choices like this and soon they to will be owned by Disney
? What exactly does that have to do with the stuff making money or not? They slash what they think will not make them money and they keep what they think will make them money. They have been hemorhaging money for a while trying to sell woke shit that nobody wants to buy, so they probably decided to stop doing what will actually bring them to ruin.
I need the source on that. It is so insane it might be true. But I want the link. Then there will only be like 3 entertainment companies
@@seanhartnett79 source for what? The Ezra Miller stuff? That takes a 2 second google search my dude and I would post some links to start you down that insane rabbit hole but youtube really doesn't like links for some reason. Now if you mean the Disney stuff that's just me making an Educated guess based on Disney's recent track record when it comes to buying companies, they specifically target companies that have IPs they want and that just so happen to be dealing with financial issues like what happens with fox or lucasfilm before that, or marvel before that, or Pixar before that. you get the picture.
Why do you find it funny. Everything I have ready is that the Batgirl movie sucks and not worth fixing. It would damage the DCEU more. So he’s taking the tax write off. I haven’t heard anything bad about the Flash movie. If the movie is good why should he waste money on cancel culture. Ezra won’t be back though
@@PeterParker-tb7ce I mean he is a kidnapper,
This became relevant again. HBO Max decided to get rid of a lot of shows the other day, some of which were very popular.
The more bizarre thing is that they now try to make some of these shows sort of lost media,
For example deleting infinity trains pilot from CN's youtube channel
@@O.D25 yea its all for tax write offs apparently. i hope that everything was archived before it was taken down
when has it ever not been relevant
I agree with the others saying that ProZD is giving CEOs a little too much credit by making them too intelligent, lol.
well i cannot exactly tell but this may be the highest budget skit yet what with the plushies and what looks to be over $100 in cash. good to see the budget increasing!
Plushies were probably just there for a tax write off lmao
Do organs prices on black market count?
Not to mention how much it must have cost to get that CEO to appear in the skit.
We’re a long way from the coins in the how rich people act skit.
this is what all the Borderland money went to
“Let’s merge out streaming services.”
“Okay, we’re going to merge the smaller discovery with the larger HBO Max, right?”
“….”
“Right!?”
"When we merge the services should we capitalize on some of the greatest television ever made like The Sopranos and The Wire?"
"Nah let's remind everyone of the all time greats like Dirty Jobs and Gold Rush!"
LOL imagined if they lost millions of subscribers out of 70 something millions.
well discovery owns the house soooooo......also could be their coding, Interface and infrastructure is better, though i don't use either so no clue.
@@mOnStErSonfilm discoverys streaming service is so abysmally coded I really doubt this is the case.
@@mOnStErSonfilm more likely their ROI is much better on the reality shows Discovery lives off relative to the costs of producing a quality scripted show. Like, just keep throwing reality shows at a wall and see what sticks
Fun fact
The reason why CEOs only care about money is because their share holders can sue them if they have reason to believe the CEO's goal isn't primarily about making money and they can replace the CEO with a different person.
You can basically get fired from being a CEO if NO MONEY.
Yeah, it's really shitty. That's also the reason why triple A game developers are reluctant to try anything new, while indie developers get creative all the time.
This is the best summary of capitalism I've ever seen
Really happy to see Strong Mad found success in the corporate world.
hey strong mad can say "DOUGLAS" and "PARAKEET", this is *rude*
Don't insult Strong Mad like that.
smh, he had such promise as an up-and-coming claymation director. Guess nobody’s immune to thousandaire brainrot.
you lust opened the nostalgia floodgates
Strong BAD you mean?
This CEO far more charismatic and charming than the average CEO.
As an employee greatly affected by a company merger, I see CEOs as cunning and heartless. They are more like machines than brutes.
Sociopaths. They are dangerous sociopaths that need therapy. There is a well-documented consistent correlation between sociopathic traits and success as a CEO / CFO, because they are only considered successful if they do everything in their power, no matter how ruthless, to INCREASE profits -- instead of simply managing well, positively, and slowly gaining wealth over time as a bonus. Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was one of these rare types.
@@chocolate_maned_wolf They don't need therapy. They need to be massively taxed and/or prosecuted.
@@chocolate_maned_wolf dont worry, most therapists nowadays dont care much more for the work they do than the ceos themselves
@@Narutass43 Not massively. To me, it would be fair if they just didnt get to reduce their taxes. Why only the richest people can do it?
On the other hand, unfortunately the investigation of their crimes has to be initiated by their victims, so thats unlikely to change
Aged like fine wine
This is how I found out about this merger
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ah fuck this is a real merger?
ProZD, most reliable news source
@@ball5942 yep! They cancelled Batgirl and Scoob: the holiday haunt, and also didn't even the tell the people working on it who had to find out via at the same time as everyone else. And we also know that animation probably isn't safe
@@ball5942 yes and pretty much everything said in the skit is true. BatGirl got cancelled and HBO Max and Discovery+ will merge next summer
I’m so happy that I have to privilege to be on the internet during a proZD skit era as someone who wasn’t on vine
"You don't eat money" - see and that's why you will never be CEO
And now that they've done this *AGAIN* to the Wile E Coyote movie that was apparently entirely completed, I'm pretty sure the WB CEO is actually like this.
"You don't eat money"
Meanwhile rich people are putting actual gold leaf into their steak
Gold leaf is actually ridiculously cheap to buy for what it is.
That being said, restaurants hike the price up a *ridiculously high* amount which (obviously) negates its cheapness. So it's more like.... they think they're eating money, but they're actually eating inflated prices.
And the steak is awful even besides the gold leaf.
Seriously, rich people usually don’t even pay for quality, they pay for scams that make them feel high-status.
@@Necroskull388 Full stop, I feel like there is this range of "expensive but good quality" where the price is worth the quality and then once you get higher than that range the quality either starts to dip or so much crap is added that the taste suffers.
@@DemonicNightmare I mean you can definitely go higher quality and more expensive, but people would rather buy stupid shit because they like how shiny it is. Its about what people want and those people don't want food, they don't want good, they want shiny stuff that makes them feel better.
@@Necroskull388 They pay for brand and status, they want to feel like they got something the common people can't get.
This thing actually having any use or even quality is secundary.
This is exactly the same mindset that made NFT so pricy.
"Shitty image"
"Meh"
"But with a proof that you and only you own it"
"Ok i'm sold"
I think James Stephanie Sterling said it best: “they don’t just want to make money, they want to make ALL of the money”
Like I fucking get they’re in serious debt right now but how the hell do they think setting the house on fire on purpose to collect the insurance money could possibly be a good look?!
You won't find "how does this look" on a Profit & Loss statement.
Neither will you find "what effects will this have after the current financial quarter?"
Maybe they think the movie's garbage? Actual garbage.
Capitalisms a helluva drug. The skys the limit when it comes to greed, and the ONLY people who are in executive positions are the greediest and most sociopathic of humanity who have no qualms over stepping on the backs of others for them to feel superior or get ahead
That’s a good quote, but this situation really deflates it. It’s pure incompetence. This is tanking both public perception and their stock value. The money spent on dozens of suddenly cancelled projects was essentially thrown into a fire and the new CEO says with a straight face “content is king”
@@AusSP didn’t stop them from releasing Suicide Squad and also didn’t stop that piece of shit dookie garmbage from becoming one of the highest grossing movies of its day
So, everybody heard the news, huh? 😭
well this is more relevant than ever...
"Goods and services? I wanted money."
"Goods and services can earn you much money."
"Explain."
"Money can be exchanged for watching scripted movies."
“Can I exchange some of these little pink babies for more cash?”
The Yoshi Doll is a metaphor for Tax Evasion.
The Slime Doll is a metaphor for how if 8 Slimes combine, they become a King Slime.
"Here's your pile of money just for existing because capitalism's a joke." Hit the nail on the head there!
ProZD taking regular breaks with his sketches and only uploading them when he feels like he's got a real good idea is really keeping all of his content fresh. Love it
If capitalism is a joke, why am I not laughing all the time?
Too busy working or crying or both
It's just not a very funny one
We're the punchline.
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If life ain't just a joke then why am I laughing
Some of this is far more accurate than it has any right to be...
get botted
I just saw this today.
How is this more accurate, 3 weeks after it originally came out?
That's not how parodies are supposed to work!
Most competent CEO
"You don't eat money" Tell that to Kazuma Kiryu. Eating money is how he became the fighter he is today.
Can confirm. swallowed a bunch of coins, learned how to beat up a tiger.
@@mattardis Two, actually. Right after getting stabbed and fighting an entire castle filled with samurai and ninjas
I forgot 0 didn't have XP points
Every time a company merges together with another, I mentally brace myself for the trainwreck and aftermath that’ll eventually follow.
Also, ProZD doing more skits? Yes, absolutely brilliant, I am into it, and all for it. I missed those so much.
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How can't a literal billion dollar company fix this fucking bot problem.
There's always a shit storm right after. But who wouldn't want Amazon to own a medical provider? Privacy is overrated! Lol
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The difference is:
This time, the trainwreck *_didn't_* hit the masses.
Am I the only one that saw the ant on the collar of his shirt in the first few seconds of the video?
Very interesting to watch this during the HBO discovery disaster and the animation purge.
Seriously though, I’m bummed out that good cartoons are getting removed and forced to not be acknowledged since I’m a giant fan of animation. There’s a possible chance of many good shows not being able to finish their stories cause of this tragedy.
*cough* Final Space *cough cough*
"We have 20 titles of original programming read-"
"No"
Relatable.
CEO: "Hello, I like money."
Literally everyone: "What inspired you to cancel the fully-produced Bargirl film?"
CEO: *"MONEY."* :-]
It's actually true, they get more money from the tax break than releasing it in cinemas (it was that bad in test screenings) or HBO Max. So it was the logical decision to handle the fuckup of the previous regime.
Considering how it went for birds of prey , future costs (marketing and potential reshoots to mention a few) and possibly appearent poor quality, it may well have been a wise decision and an avoidance of a sunk cost fallacy.
@@TheGruspastej "May have," he says
"This movie didn't meet the rigorous quality standards for DC Studios productions" might not be THE worst cover story of all time, but it's probably in the top ten.
@@bsmith6784 Likely is, I would say.
I hate how accurate this feels at the ground level of a company I used worked for that got bought out. Clients and managers are leaving due to new management, property maintenance and security gets removed to save money, our products quality was dropped for some reason while prices stayed the same or were increased, and our power to do anything behind the scenes like discounts or answer most of the customers questions was removed or lock behind contacting cooperate who seem to monitor every request you make to them. This sounds like a perfect time to raise the prices on all our services across the board to make up the lost revenue since 20% of our clients left. If anyone of our clients who got grandfather in to our new company doesn’t like it, they can leave! The more that I think about it, I’m impressed I stayed with the new company for three months after the merger happened before leaving. Fuck that company!
Now I understand what's behind the scenes of Wizards of the Coast
I can’t really believe the new CEO is a human being
I fucking hate CZcams now. Every fucking comment has these stupid replies
Good news, none of them are
Why are you all so mad? Is it just because Batgirl or am I missing something?
I mean, he's also a nazi, so...
IIRC a lot of this strange behavior is due to two things. First, new CEOs will often cancel projects made by their predecessors so because if that succeeds, the credit goes to the old guy (which you don't want, because you are a petty bastard who wants the fame for yourself). Second, canceling projects may deprive you of the future profits of that project, but you can pocket even MORE money from the tax breaks associated with failed projects. Just a nasty set of perverse incentives.
All the test screenings for Batgirl basically said the movie was trash. So sometimes it's best to let trash burn than let it stick around and foul up your place.
lol. The movie got cancelled because they alredy lost a stupid amount of money with birds of prey and they'd rather not incur the marketing costs, which are actually a massive share of a movie's budget. It's as simple as it scored terribly in screening, so they're done with movies like that.
Anybody else returning to this after Zaslav canceled another WB project?
yep
I like when you do board game reviews and food reviews, but your skits are solid gold. Thank you for going down this avenue again.
I feel like he's satirically doing a bunch of skits to shut up the people that keep telling him to do more skits
maybe he felt like doing a few
every time I look in the comments of one of his new skits, it's full of people saying "fInALly aNOtHeR sKiT!!" and I die a little more inside
@@tmd_95 well you'll be glad to know it's not actually a prozd fan who's doing that, it's just a spam account.
@@tmd_95 Yeah. It's like he made a huge deal about it or something.
"I don't care if this guts our existing services and alienates our customers...
They're still gonna fucking pay for it!"
-Every CEO ever
True
You know that stealing footage from security cameras is illegal right?
As an actual CEO, this is what I never want to be but I know that most CEOs (particularly those of larger corporations) are, except they usually drool a lot more and have a smaller vocabulary
Don’t worry, there have been wonderful CEOs, but they don’t get the media attention that the sociopathic ones do. Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart was one of these types. He has a great biography about his strategies for success that you should read. You’ll notice that he puts customer and worker satisfaction above short term gain no matter what.
@@chocolate_maned_wolf You're not fooling anyone Sam!
@@chocolate_maned_wolf Being an asshole works
If you are a good person who cares about people under you and not just about your own goals/well being, you can make it to Millions but you'll never make it to Billions.
We are in a world dominated by selfish assholes who do their best to make sure that you need to be as backstabbing, shitty and power hungry as them to have a chance at joining them.
Because the day someone with actual values joins their circle, they might have to actually take morals into account, and they would hate that.
@@Narutass43 you got me. i am sam walton. known for such quotes as "every walton has its sam".
When WB/Discovery says they want to emulate the MCU, they're talking about the money, not the decades of investment into their properties.
at this point I can't wait for the merger of a big asteroid and my house
You have a house?! Lucky dog.
Inshallah, brother.
Oh my god his crying is so believable I kinda felt like it was a sad amalgamate of a monster being tortured that it can’t speak clearly or remember clearly bruh 💔
Back here after the amazing (/s) HBOMax announcements
I hate how accurate this is for corporate America. I’m sure it’s worse in entertainment, but I swear to god these idiots do not understand basic economic fixes like “if you pay people more then we’ll fix our labor shortage and won’t have so many people leave.” They just hear “spend more money. Noooooo no spend money. Only make money no spend money.”
Or how about better paid workers will do their jobs better.
Or actually allowing your employees to unionize will make them happier and less likely to leave
I wasn’t even looking forward to any of the stuff they dropped and I am still upset to hear that so many people’s hard work has been thrown away for no good reason.
The reason is that marketing costs far more than production. Now, I’m not sure it’s financially responsible or smart reason, but the people at Warner Brother’s must have decided that releasing these projects presented a very large risk to lose significantly more money. Idk, they’ve been kind of a mess for the past few years anyway.
It seemed that there was some good reason. They want a DC cinematic universe with an actual ten-year plan like Marvel. From the sound of it, Batgirl/supergirl didn’t fit in with the universe or set up anything and were just one-offs.
@@Eorzat the way it worked out is: The Flash movie that isnt out yet is the big starter for the dc universe, and Batgirl was built off that plot almost entirely, and includes references to it.
Then it came out that Erza Miller, the Flash's actor, is a monster and now The Flash either needs to be remade without erza miller (good luck), or they can cut losses and try again in another few years.
@@WaluTime but they’re still releasing The Flash
@@WaluTime They've said several times they're committed to releasing the movie still. They'll probably just end up replacing Ezra in any future movies.
"The Batgirl movie is going to make us money"
Best joke of the skit
Waiiiiiit wait, you're wrong... it will make money! Just... only at 10% of it's final budget. 🤣
@@jonnymmac Still, better than making NONE of it back by cancelling when it’s already pretty much done. You can have your opinions and predictions for whether it would’ve been a hit or a flop, but at the end of the day, you don’t get a cent back for throwing it all in the trash. Honestly the worst financial decision anyone could make.
@@dexterwilliams2520 Well the real decision to scrap it was for the bigger picture. They need to stop weakening the whole brand with each movie comming out more woke and unwanted, than the last. Seems like someone high up there finally honestly paid attention to what people want. And not just shill a message.
@@jonnymmac Oh no you used woke as a pejorative unironically, that's so hilariously pathetic. Also, please don't confuse what the "people" want with what you want.
@@jonnymmac If the movie was only half done or something, scrapping the movie for "the bigger picture" would make a bit more sense as they feel they would lose more money than they already have. But when the movie is so close to completion that you’ve already spent every last dime you’re going to spend on its production, even getting "10% of the final budget" back is better than getting 0%. Not only do you lose EVERYTHING, but it paints a horrible picture in the eyes of outsiders looking in. Should I bother getting hyped for Black Adam when I know DC movies can and will be cancelled a week before its release date? If movies aren’t safe, are video games? Should I expect to see Multiversus get cancelled while it’s in beta? It has Steven Universe characters and that’s one of the most "woke" cartoons of all time. Let’s say of the employees that worked on the movie just watched the whole thing get scrapped just before it was released. Obviously the new boss doesn’t give a rat's ass about the work his new employees have done for so long. If the boss doesn’t care about their hard work, obviously he must not care about them as employees, either. Should they expect to be fired? Should they just quit now since they know they aren’t going to be employed anyways? And let’s say someone owned stock in the companies that are proving to have such terrible stability issues. Why should those stockholders opt to hold their shares on this sinking ship? Instead, why not sell while they haven’t lost all their money and buy into a more secure rival who’s obviously going to benefit from their fall? I’m not gonna pretend I liked a lot of DC movies, but if Batgirl released, whether or not it flopped, very few would even be calling their stability into question.
This video just continues to age like fine wine which is both funny and sad. 😂
Literally a few videos ago this man was like "Eh I'm kinda tired of skits" and here we are back to skits. Love it.
He did say in that video he'd do them when he wants to. Guess he wants to right now.
Aye, moods can change surprisingly quick sometimes. And honestly the best way to get some pwople do to something you want is just let them go at their own pace.
i remember him saying he does them as he pleases. i guess this struck a cord with him
@@David-eq8wf In other words, he's doing it to troll us for leaving his channel because he said he's not making skits anymore, so in a way he really is doing it because we want him to. We won. And now that most of us are coming back, he'll probably do a swerve and start making no-effort cat videos instead.
@@kimifw58 bru you over thinking this like light from death note🤣
I didn't realize we are doing documentaries now on this channel
I just love the defeated tone when he says "You don't eat money."
I love how the stuffed animals still have the tags on them
Cool to see ProZD doing documentaries.
Time is money after all. And chanting "Money" is a rather time-consuming task
So I eat time?
@@FutureDeep this cloud is 4 parallel universes ahead of us. as expected of a cloud from the future.
@@FutureDeep legion moment
can we talk about how his CEO voice sounde exactly like a grumpy Cookie Monster?
When the last river poisoned, with the last fish caught, and the last tree cut, only then will men realize you can not eat money.
FunFact One-quarter of all your bones are located in your feet.
I did not know that! Thank you random citizen for your bone knowledge!
oh my god
WHERE'S THE PROOF?
FunFact one quarter of all your bones "were" located in your feet.
Wassup y'all. I'm a rising entertainer who produces comedy skits. Inform me what can be done to improve them. Much love f
Everything you do is amazing. Love this channel so much!
I can already hear the catchy theme song...
"M is for money. It's not enough for me... M is for Money it's not enough for me...
Money. Money. Money... Give to MEEEE!"
Loving all these new skits! The best!!!
Wow when did ProZD start making documentaries? As someone who works corporate I can confirm that CEOs are some kind of cosmic horror fuelled by money and the crushed souls of their employees.
To be fair, in the volume they earn it eating it becomes practical if lacking in nutrition.
Plus them choking on a coin or getting poisoned from the ink used to print money would be poetic justice.
"So, Batgirl and the Scoob sequel are practically finished, we have many different programs on our streaming services that people love-"
"Cancel them all."
"O-okay. So we'll cancel The Flash movie, too, because of all the problems with-"
"No."
"No?"
"No, keep that one and get rid of the rest."
"But with all the things with-"
"Who's the CEO here?"
“Okay so what do you have planned for the DCEU? Any big names like Batman or Superman?”
“Batgirl”
“What?”
“We spent 90 million dollars on a Batgirl movie sir”
“Will anyone even know who that is? That’s like making an Ant-Man movie before Captain America!”
“Well why don’t we cancel The Flash then?”
“Because The Flash is a bigger name to people who weren’t born in the late 90s”
You don't eat money, but you can definitely piss it away...
“You don’t eat money”
Yakuza0 “No, but you punch people to make money”
i like this CEO because he's honest and tells it like it is. you know exactly what you're gonna get from this guy. frankly i think this no-nonsense attitude would make him a great candidate to head a department of government. make him the next secretary of education
So this is what happens when you replace the Cookie Monster's love of cookies with money
Thank you for this explainer video! These corporate decisions are always so hard to unpack for the layperson