thats ironic, she gets paid money, and talks about people being greedy. if she was really about greed, she would give up part of her money to give to them.
im appalled at all these people slamming sandra oh just for being there and supporting the cause. Tell me, whens the last time YOU have helped someone lately? Please, take your smug self righteous attitudes elsewhere.. at least she's doing something, while you're just whining on youtube.
sandra is amazing sucha great asian american example of a role model, as a working actor i know exactly what shes talking about...im glad its over now..that was a crazy time people were protesting everywhere liek crazy.
okay just out of curiousity (since i'm in the uk and had no idea there even was a writer's strike in america until it was over) but what was it about? in simple terms that my simple mind can understand =D
basically, people weren't being seeing royalties for their work on shows that were being downloaded online, on phones, and other venues outside of TV. so the writers went on strike and they got a ton of support from the actors.
I'm really torn on this issue. The entire media industry needs a new set of rules. There are really no easy answers because it is such a complicated issue. On the one hand you have writers, musicians, artists, actors, etc. and on another you have major media corporations claiming rights to things they should have NO rights to. Then you've got the public that seriously just wants media to be freely accessible to everyone. It's a complete mess!
oh geeze, i'm an asian girl and i could care less about money and i know how to keep my clothes, stupid ass. not gonna waste my time with a pathetic fuck like you.
You know.. it really is rediculous.. Actors really are that blind to not realize that they make the most money then probably anyone in the world besides those big coporative executive like Donald Trump... and Bill gates... they are not happy cause they think they should be up there with them instead of just living a life where they can afford to support way more than just themselves... my question is why? I wonder if these "writers" are even underpaid.
Anyone who knows anything about this industry would tell you that less 10% of this union makes above $100,000 a year. Most actors are mid-level and the majority are background. There are others this Union- aside from actors. The other 90% are struggling and we will be the ones to suffer the hardest, to take the first punch on this strike. They need to throw in deals for the majority of their Union - which is NOT people like Oh - she's just lending her name. We WISH we made as much as her.
I do not have much respect for "Writers" in Hollywood anyway. All they have done in the last 20 years is rehash the same old crap over and over. They rape TV shows and movies and desecrate the good memories we had of good shows that were well written years ago.
Did we really need another Flintstones, Bewitched, Wild Wild West, or Dukes of Hazzard? Do you honestly think they need to be paid extra for that? REALLY?
I mean really??? RAMBO...again? Terminator 25? Rocky 47?
You dumbasses keep rehashing the same crap over and over. Then you make cartoons over and over. How many Shrek's are we supposed to endure? I get the whole Harry Potter deal, at least it is based on a series of books.
If you think it's so easy to produce writing that you call it "work" in quotes, it should be EASY for you to produce a timely script and get it made. Go right ahead. I'd love to watch.
I have a script ready to go. It is not that hard. I have a new story that has never been told. Everyopne I have explained it to think it is awesome and refreshing. I just do not know how to sell it.
That livelihood will also dissappear if the writers can't - or won't - continue to produce material because they aren't being paid for their work. Lighting tech=replaceable minimum-wage drone. Writer not. Case closed.
Wow...it seems you little regard for other human beings. It does not surprise me though. How could anyone who cares about others put innocent people out of work?
If one link in the chain is broken, you can not pull a vehicle with that chain. If one valued worker stops working, all the others can't get the job done.
You think you are better than someone else and the only person you value is yourself.
I can only hope that your selfishness comes back to haunt you.
It is very easy for someone like Sandra Oh to claim others are greedy. She shows up and makes thousands of dollars per hour for her "Work". This is the problem with "Hollywood". People have no sense of right and wrong, because they live in a fantasy world.
These writers are putting people out of work, who depend ong them for a living, to get a pay raise. No matter how you slice it, that is just plain wrong.
Any job you take, you accept the pay they give you, or you don't. You negotiate before you take the job, accept the job as is, or do not accept and work elsewhere.
You do not accept a job, say you are unhappy and hold other people's livelyhood hostage to get what you failed to negotiate before you accepted the position.
That is just plain wrong, no matter how you try to justify it.
So if you get hired, then conditions change - say, they start selling your work in a new venue - you are just going to take it? You're not going to ask for a pay raise after earning the same money for your labor after twenty years without any adjustment for inflation?
ting:"You're not going to ask for a pay raise after earning the same money for your labor after twenty years"
I WOULD ask for a raise. However, I would not put other people out of work, who were depending on me for a living, to get it. If I was so unhappy at my job, I would seek other employment.
I call BS. Our economy is so interdependent that any labor action is going to critically affect other sectors. People have the right to remove their labor from the process, and seek better compensation. Any other answer is slavery. If you think writers are so easily dispensed with, feel free to act as a scab. Should be no problem for you to whip up a dozen episodes of your favorite show, right? Feel free.
Good to see both together. The guilds have to support one another. Internet is booimg. It's a temporary hard time financially right now, we all feel it in the Hollywood area, but it's the short term. Stay strong writers.
I'm all for the writers... and they want public support.
But where were these (relatively) well-paid writers when the auto workers union was being decimated? Where were they when Reagan left the airline workers out in the cold? Where were the writers when the US Corporations fired hundreds of thousands and fled to foreign lands so they can hire children to slave over American products for 80hrs/wk?
Duh... it's called solidarity. All for one and one for all. It's the same argument as "looking the other way when Hitler comes for one group and there's no one left to protest when he comes after you."
Please please please whatever happens, let our shows get back on air. The fans don't like it, the directors don't like it, the actors don't like it, and I'm pretty sure the writers don't like waiting either, so please, now that it's the new year and shows are supposed to be coming back from their hiatus, please reach an agreement so we can all watch television in peace.
The writers want compensation for online media. Right now the companies get all the money for online media and the writers get nothing. The writer's are not asking for a lot, they just want compensation for online media. Everything is online now a days and writers just want a little compensation for it, but the companies don't care.
verbalwho. Currently the writers receive NOTHING for anything downloaded of the internet. Producers make millions off of advertising and broadcasting their shows online (with advertisements). If this were broadcast on TV, the writers, the actors, and anyone else who relies on residuals would receive them. They get nothing now. That's part of what they're fighting for.
Okay, so...why are just the writers striking? And who's hosting these downloads? And contracts! What's it say in their contracts? And is anything they write THEIR intellectual property?
...No one can answer any of this, can they? Yeah, best to stay out of shit you don't understand.
Who are the people who affect this? Downloaders or the online stream episodes? Do the actors get paid when we watch the episodes on TV? I dont understand this whole business!
First off, I don't even watch any of these shows, therefore it doesn't really affect me. And if these SAG actors cared enough, then why don't they take a cut from their ridiculously huge paychecks so studios can fork it over to the writers. Without writers, actors can't work, can they? And have the studios pay the writers with bigger royalties for internet viewing while their at it.
The Writers Guild Foundation has established an Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against the AMPTP, which began on November 5, 2007. This Fund is designed to provide emergency assistance for food, housing, transport, medical and other expenses, info at btlnews,org under strike blog or email me i will help direct you to forms ...spread the helpful information to those in need please
oky.......they have there point.....but what about all the people from other countries that dont have the possibility to see it on tv.......because the televisions dont have money to buy the series............what are they supposed to do if they love the series and wanna see them........i understand both sides!!!!!!!!!!
wait does SHE want compensation for the net/everything else ?! she gets paid enough. its the writers ! i personally think they shouldnt put episodes on abc . com...etc, if you miss it you can watch the re-play on a different day and if you miss it then tough. its tv.. not "free to view when you please"
I'd like to see the tax returns of the "poor" writer/producers of hit shows released to the public. The outrage would be immediate that these greedy writers want more money.
clearly i was referring to the actors supporting the strike. hence the mention of their sag cards. additionally, i think its hilarious that you asked me to name twenty recognizable writers. maybe if i was a writer i'd have the time to waste on such a meaningless task! however if i was to start i'd begin with practically the entire cast of the office.
either way you're just making assumptions. tv personalities already have a high profile. it wouldn't make any sense to draw that kind of unnecessary attention to themselves, even if they weren't sympathetic to the supermarket strike.
Id rather see People like Sandra Oh getting payed $60,000 a year and give the remaining money to the writers. Honestly, actors are incredibly overpayed for their contribution to the world.
it wouldn't be an honest wage with the studios pocketing all that money that their likeness (the likeness of the actors) generated. that would be completely dishonest. they are paid that much because if the cast of grey's anatomy was replaced, the show would fail instantly. the actors are the most crucial part of the whole franchise.
I agree, but The actors were nothing without greys anatomy, and most likely will be nothing after greys anatomy (did anyone say friends?) Many of them were never had heard ofs.. and its the Studio/writers who made them famous. Writers go on and continue to write, actors go on and jump on infomercials.
The actors aren't on strike though, they are supporting the writers, the average writer doesn't make a ton of money, and even if they did they are still entitled to the money corporations make off of them on the internet. I saw some where that the writers for the office never got paid anything for some webisodes they wrote last year for which they won emmy's.
A SAG strike is predicted to happen this summer. The actors are showing their support for writers for many reasons, one of which is that they hope the writers will support them.
I think its good their having a strike, if they dont like someting then they fix it, they dont wait for someone else to fix it, i think thats good. but i hope they give the writers what they want soon so i can watch my grey's again
okay yes the ACTOR comment on laundry is dumb.....I also know actors on shows that do not treat these very people that do their laundry well,I believe we all have the right to be respected and appreciated......suffering is what my parenst went through in the war.
The best place I ever supervised people had a union. That meant that higher ups couldn't come in and work people 30 days straight without 1) asking people or 2) paying over time. Managing exhausted, angry people to accomplish some task is nearly impossible in these organization devoid of any type of understanding or the ethics involved in dealing with human beings! Go WGA! This strike is good for all of us!
I think the writers guild has a just cause and I understand the importance of the union and all, but it is kind of funny (and probably not entirely helpful) to hear Sandra Oh make a comment about how the people who do their laundry are going to suffer.
Well okay...yes these are people regularly employed..i.e crew people on shows, us Actors have to auditon over and over again and we know what it is like to unemployed even after you have done alot of shows,I say the writers are just for sure!
I know that the writers, in this case, do spend quite a lot of time unemployed between projects (which sucks).
All I'm saying is that the WGA is trying to clear up the misconception that all Hollywood writers are millionaires--it just seems counter productive (to me) when famous actors make comments like ""the people who do our laundry are going to suffer!"
But I realize people are out of work because of this and that's terrible. Hopefully the strike will be resolved soon.
There is no reason to get ugly..Sandra Oh is a talented Canadian actor and like the rest of us we just want to get paid for the work and creativity we provide.
what a ridiculous thing to say?!How is theater more valuable?or takes more energy? I have worked for 25 years in all capacities in tv/film/theater..I have clocked 72 hrs a week on shows, i.e films & seriess, so don't comment on things you have no clue about. AN ACTOR!
Just wondering might you be someone we have seen on t.v.? How famous are you? I am totally crazy about this show. I'm just glad they got back to work. I"m probably one of the biggest fans Grey's has.
THEY won't share the net? Ohhhh, they mean sharing online sales percentages. With WRITERS. We share the net just fine.
This is a fight between rich parties, and the broke writers who describe their diets and apartment conditions to counter this claim are not going to receive significantly bigger paychecks from online royalties, whether the WGA wins or not. I make my money from hard labour and TV is as free as gasoline. Now I'm writing more than these sods too, and for free!
And writing is hard too, you try to write 40 minutes worth of dialogue and actions every week for idk... 24 weeks or something? It's harder then you think, and then- they want them to do it for free so they can keep their five homes!
And what more are they asking? four more CENTS on a dvd! Do you know how much the writers for the Pirates 3 movie got out of 5 million? 6700!
But if the producers are making 1,000 times that then they should get more. Just because theyre making a lot of money doesn't mean its the right ratio compared to producers and what not
If they can make 1.000 times that then they should. After all a show can make or break it for a producer he has more to lose and the writer still gets paid. I find it interesting that a lot of producers started out as writers. Perhaps these writers should just become producers if they want more money.
But producing and writing are different. Why switch what you love to do just for the money? Some producers will even say the writers make the show. Im suprised at how many people are against the strike.
Well I feel like people who are against the strike just want their tv back. But if the studios gave a percentage to the writers when their shows aired online there wouldnt be a problem. What happens if online media increases over the next few years and television decreases- then the writers do lose money. Theyre just trying to prevent losing alot of money in the future compared to the amount they lose out on now.Plus most writers are not making an absurd amount of money now.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Youtubers could care less about tv. TV is twenty minutes of advertising and ten min. of entertainment, if you call it that. I'm on youtube cuz I hate tv except for sports. Hey as far as I'm concerned I hope the strike last for twenty years.
it's so sad that in this country is still not educated on the Union system. This WGA strike is bringing knowledge to people all over the country that without unions, giant corporations will always abuse the working class.
But i think everyone has to realize that soon in a few years the majority of audiences will be watching tv shows off the internet and if writers don't protest for their fair now then who knows what will be revoked
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o give me a break... the actors and writers are the greedy ones.. and they think someone controls the net! that's hilarious... these things happen and writers/actors need to shut their mouths. they get enough money. WHINERS
call me a retard but i dont quite get what shes talking about here... are they pissed about stuff circulating the internet and not getting paid more for it?
I could see a percent of the profits as a fair deal, but that would also mean that if the studio got no profits from streaming videos, then 1% (or even 10%) of zero is still zero. Maybe the studios don't make money off the internet because they spend all their profits from it on copyright litigation. (Anyone for whack-a-mole?)
besides, these writers get a lot of money already...so do the actors. This is amoral, insensitive, and selfish...we need to support our shareholders --YOU, before we jeaperdize the balance and be to hastey on a deal....which makes a weird balance that causes asymetry eventually causing poor quality in shows and movies....you don't want this. Therefore, you should support the studio...writers come and go...the balance set at the beginning is more important.
in other words: you enter the territory...see how it works...then you settle the figures for the writers...the studios must be the first to entire the virgin territory in order to amass money enough and pay the writers....not pay them before we even know how the internet market works.
'how greedy can you get..they won't even share the net'!!!!
what do you MEAN????? 'won't even share'...??? THE net is ENORMOUS...it must be experimented with first before the payment figures are settled...its still virgin territory..we are still entering...we want to be sure the profits are divided fairly before we commit to something and then have these insensitive writers sue and take away money.
this is ridiculous. how can these writers be so insensitive..I mean we gave them the right to naturally withdraw everything from the table--i simply don't understand, how can they be so selfish.
People, if you aren't on the writer's side then you don't understand this issue. Writers deserve to be paid whether you turn on or boot up the screen you watch their show on.
So I'm being lectured about writing and the art thereof by a person who was featured in such gems as Mulan II, Hard Candy, Bean, and Land Before Time XIII?
If someone wants to tell me about their woes with the movie industry, I'd prefer it to be someone who HAS HAD NOTHING TO DO with singing dinosaurs.
Seriously... You're striking about not getting an extra couple thousand a year when you're already making hundreds of thousands, and calling people on the internet greedy? WOW... lmfao...
haha...the phat kats are unhappy because they're not getting that extra $5,000 a year...and by the by, these writers suck...there hasnt been one great show on the air, in decades!
Firefly. The West Wing. Twin Peaks. Arrested Development. Studio 60. Seinfeld. Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Daily Show. The Office. Scrubs. South Park. Sports Night (the Aaron Sorkin one, not the ESPN one)
in the beloved words of Woody Allen........."This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!"
Well, extra credit for quoting Woody Allen (a writer himself, by the way), but it doesn't really apply here. I don't enjoy those shows because I'm told to, I enjoy them because I actually enjoy them. No meta-theoretical media influence need apply. I made sure to include The "Sorkin Trilogy" (West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60) because these shows were marked by exceptional scripting and dialog. My only point is that writers are all-too-often taken for granted.
Also, by the way, on the topic of that "extra five grand," they aren't concerned about a lack of overall money, they're concerned about feeding their children when an often-fickle industry turns on them.
Most intelligent people would care less if they stayed on strike forever. Read a good book, work with your hands or try creative writing. There are thousands of young talented writers out there. I imagine that given a chance most of the current writers guild could be replaced in short order and the viewing would be better. And no I'm not a jilted writer, I'm a 30 year career firefighter just happy to have a job I love.
RIGHT ON!!! Another real person risking your own life. Not for a paycheck for respect of yourself and others. You are someone for the young generation to look up to.
Yeah. Let's get a completely new generation of writers to sell out and take the places of the current ones. That'll show the fatcats in charge...
Seriously, though. It's about the networks not sharing the profits of the writers' works. If you do some research, you'll see that the writers have a strong case.
Of course all of this means is that the price of everything goes up. If they have to give the writers more money then the advertisers will have to pay more to advertise and therefore the price of the product being advertised cost more. What goes around comes around,lol. So basically the writers lose cuz it will cost more for them to purchase things, and the rest of America.
You have to love these neoclassical books of the apocalypse that are always dragged out every time there's a strike or a raise in the minimum wage. Of course, they're completely ahistorical. During the 1950s and 1960s, when union strength was at it's highest in American history, inflation was quite low. These kinds of responses are simply cloaking attacks on working people's living standards in (shoddy) scientific theory.
Well, to give someone something don't you have to give up something? And if you don't you have to find another means by which to get it back. I was talking to a fireman who represents a union. He asked for more money for the union. The city gave them a raise,but they turned around and increased their healthcare cost. What do you think the city did?
Or maybe you have to find balance. Right now studios take home all of the money from residuals. These aren't mom and pop stores struggling to make ends meat. They are huge conglomerates who are essentially seeking to do to writers what they did last time with VHS sale -- undercut the very foundation of this medium.
I love this woman!
TheMrFunGuy 1 month ago
Whatever happened to the term "actress"?
rosario508 9 months ago
that is a sexist term to liberals
hint0122 2 months ago
thats ironic, she gets paid money, and talks about people being greedy. if she was really about greed, she would give up part of her money to give to them.
hint0122 1 year ago
@hint0122 Cause that makes a lot of sense! Totally.
harmonyskies19 8 months ago
she's an actress not an actor(;
codylinleyishawtt 1 year ago
Oh for awesome
sunflowery 1 year ago
I love SO! The fact that she supports the writers shows she has a caring heart
ElatedScherzo 2 years ago
im appalled at all these people slamming sandra oh just for being there and supporting the cause. Tell me, whens the last time YOU have helped someone lately? Please, take your smug self righteous attitudes elsewhere.. at least she's doing something, while you're just whining on youtube.
wakingwallaby 2 years ago 11
sandra is amazing sucha great asian american example of a role model, as a working actor i know exactly what shes talking about...im glad its over now..that was a crazy time people were protesting everywhere liek crazy.
CTWcauseiMissyou 2 years ago 4
Asian-Canadian, yo.
rubberdynomite 2 years ago
but she's Canadian...
canadianjosh 1 year ago 2
: )
CTWcauseiMissyou 1 year ago
okay just out of curiousity (since i'm in the uk and had no idea there even was a writer's strike in america until it was over) but what was it about? in simple terms that my simple mind can understand =D
Divido17 2 years ago
look it up... : )
CTWcauseiMissyou 2 years ago
basically, people weren't being seeing royalties for their work on shows that were being downloaded online, on phones, and other venues outside of TV. so the writers went on strike and they got a ton of support from the actors.
RosieGrl26 2 years ago
she is amazing, i adore her <3
LopsidedCircle 2 years ago 3
I love Sandra Oh, not just for her looks, but her morality & personality to a certain extent
Deader87 3 years ago 7
if i watch it free on a television site and PAY for internet does that count?
coz i love greys anatomy
leanna20 3 years ago
I'm really torn on this issue. The entire media industry needs a new set of rules. There are really no easy answers because it is such a complicated issue. On the one hand you have writers, musicians, artists, actors, etc. and on another you have major media corporations claiming rights to things they should have NO rights to. Then you've got the public that seriously just wants media to be freely accessible to everyone. It's a complete mess!
pixygiggles 3 years ago 5
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Obnoxious AND butt-fugly... please tell me she's single!
jeesonus 3 years ago
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If Asian picks a fight its of course about money... useless sluts.
technogearhead 3 years ago
fuck you, you racist bitch.
SuperBaeDong 3 years ago
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Asian girls are gold diggers and sluts... prove that I am wrong.
technogearhead 3 years ago
oh geeze, i'm an asian girl and i could care less about money and i know how to keep my clothes, stupid ass. not gonna waste my time with a pathetic fuck like you.
SuperBaeDong 3 years ago
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I was at a Ivy league college, yet to see a Asian girl "really" help in any causes unless it involved her popularity or money.
I call em like I see em.
Tell me I am wrong... point to some videos, all I see on youtube with asian girl are slut videos.
technogearhead 3 years ago
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wakingwallaby 2 years ago
@technogearhead you're generalizing, idiot.
Gleekedgal 1 year ago
You know.. it really is rediculous.. Actors really are that blind to not realize that they make the most money then probably anyone in the world besides those big coporative executive like Donald Trump... and Bill gates... they are not happy cause they think they should be up there with them instead of just living a life where they can afford to support way more than just themselves... my question is why? I wonder if these "writers" are even underpaid.
Ultimatenshi 3 years ago
Anyone who knows anything about this industry would tell you that less 10% of this union makes above $100,000 a year. Most actors are mid-level and the majority are background. There are others this Union- aside from actors. The other 90% are struggling and we will be the ones to suffer the hardest, to take the first punch on this strike. They need to throw in deals for the majority of their Union - which is NOT people like Oh - she's just lending her name. We WISH we made as much as her.
shortbusbunnies 3 years ago
Is that Marg Helgenberger (sp?) from CSI with the megaphone??
witc 3 years ago
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We wouldn't know who the hell she is if it wasn't for corporate media conglomerates.
Imagaine that, another "celeb" with a soapbox attached to their shoes. Listen up people, actors have all the answers.
ccrosbie33 3 years ago
sandra oh is awsome. shes hilarious
12fj45 3 years ago 35
sandra oh is great
chaosinthehouse 3 years ago 23
smart actor sandra.
ivpump 3 years ago 8
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pls you play a doctor but yet you make more than adoctor does who saves your life!!!
FAWK OFF!!!
1977shawn 3 years ago
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pfffft..
oh no! now i only get 5 million instead of 7..
who's greedy?
xander0713 3 years ago
sandra oh rocks!
yandelspecial 3 years ago 2
i love sandra oh and i think its great that all the greys anatomy cast is so suppostive of the writers strike!
the writers and everyone else who does the little thins like sandra said , like make the food etc, all that deserves to be noticed!
xostolenheartxo 3 years ago 5
i like how people take their most deeply felt beliefs...and make them rhyme. way to be taken seriously!!!
grendelvs 3 years ago
I do not have much respect for "Writers" in Hollywood anyway. All they have done in the last 20 years is rehash the same old crap over and over. They rape TV shows and movies and desecrate the good memories we had of good shows that were well written years ago.
Did we really need another Flintstones, Bewitched, Wild Wild West, or Dukes of Hazzard? Do you honestly think they need to be paid extra for that? REALLY?
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
I think we should strike against bad movies.
I mean really??? RAMBO...again? Terminator 25? Rocky 47?
You dumbasses keep rehashing the same crap over and over. Then you make cartoons over and over. How many Shrek's are we supposed to endure? I get the whole Harry Potter deal, at least it is based on a series of books.
And you think you deserve more money?
Honestly? You should be embarassed.
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
If you think it's so easy to produce writing that you call it "work" in quotes, it should be EASY for you to produce a timely script and get it made. Go right ahead. I'd love to watch.
TensersFloatingDisk 4 years ago 3
I have a script ready to go. It is not that hard. I have a new story that has never been told. Everyopne I have explained it to think it is awesome and refreshing. I just do not know how to sell it.
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
However, hard or not, what justification do you have for putting people who depend on you out of work?
How can you claim to care about another human being if you are willing to take their livelyhood away?
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
That livelihood will also dissappear if the writers can't - or won't - continue to produce material because they aren't being paid for their work. Lighting tech=replaceable minimum-wage drone. Writer not. Case closed.
TensersFloatingDisk 4 years ago 4
ting:"Lighting tech=replaceable minimum-wage drone. Writer not."
Wow...it seems you little regard for other human beings. It does not surprise me though. How could anyone who cares about others put innocent people out of work?
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
I have lots of regard for other human beings. That doesn't mean all work is equally valuable. Tough.
TensersFloatingDisk 3 years ago
If one link in the chain is broken, you can not pull a vehicle with that chain. If one valued worker stops working, all the others can't get the job done.
You think you are better than someone else and the only person you value is yourself.
I can only hope that your selfishness comes back to haunt you.
WeedaPeople 3 years ago
It is very easy for someone like Sandra Oh to claim others are greedy. She shows up and makes thousands of dollars per hour for her "Work". This is the problem with "Hollywood". People have no sense of right and wrong, because they live in a fantasy world.
These writers are putting people out of work, who depend ong them for a living, to get a pay raise. No matter how you slice it, that is just plain wrong.
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
Any job you take, you accept the pay they give you, or you don't. You negotiate before you take the job, accept the job as is, or do not accept and work elsewhere.
You do not accept a job, say you are unhappy and hold other people's livelyhood hostage to get what you failed to negotiate before you accepted the position.
That is just plain wrong, no matter how you try to justify it.
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
So if you get hired, then conditions change - say, they start selling your work in a new venue - you are just going to take it? You're not going to ask for a pay raise after earning the same money for your labor after twenty years without any adjustment for inflation?
Yeah, I didn't think so, you fatuous hypocrite.
TensersFloatingDisk 4 years ago 2
ting:"You're not going to ask for a pay raise after earning the same money for your labor after twenty years"
I WOULD ask for a raise. However, I would not put other people out of work, who were depending on me for a living, to get it. If I was so unhappy at my job, I would seek other employment.
Do not think you know me or anything about me.
WeedaPeople 4 years ago
I call BS. Our economy is so interdependent that any labor action is going to critically affect other sectors. People have the right to remove their labor from the process, and seek better compensation. Any other answer is slavery. If you think writers are so easily dispensed with, feel free to act as a scab. Should be no problem for you to whip up a dozen episodes of your favorite show, right? Feel free.
TensersFloatingDisk 4 years ago 5
Good to see both together. The guilds have to support one another. Internet is booimg. It's a temporary hard time financially right now, we all feel it in the Hollywood area, but it's the short term. Stay strong writers.
ladysongbird32 4 years ago
I'm all for the writers... and they want public support.
But where were these (relatively) well-paid writers when the auto workers union was being decimated? Where were they when Reagan left the airline workers out in the cold? Where were the writers when the US Corporations fired hundreds of thousands and fled to foreign lands so they can hire children to slave over American products for 80hrs/wk?
dostoyevskyfan 4 years ago
Er...what the hell is your point? Are you suggesting that if, say, agriculture jobs get ousourced, then, say, doctors should go on strike?
TensersFloatingDisk 4 years ago
Duh... it's called solidarity. All for one and one for all. It's the same argument as "looking the other way when Hitler comes for one group and there's no one left to protest when he comes after you."
dostoyevskyfan 4 years ago
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Sucky sucky five dolla!
papipablo 4 years ago
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yeah sandra oh sucks! worst actress in Hollywood at the moment!! and ugliest!
cordonsport3m 4 years ago
I want to come picket! <3 WGA
Cybrokat 4 years ago
I really hope they will find an agreement!! I hate strikes!:(
but im on the writers side though!
" How greedy can they get, they wont even share the net!!! " keep it up!
SGTina 4 years ago
I hope 24 will come!!!! Will it?
CSIgirl24 4 years ago
Please please please whatever happens, let our shows get back on air. The fans don't like it, the directors don't like it, the actors don't like it, and I'm pretty sure the writers don't like waiting either, so please, now that it's the new year and shows are supposed to be coming back from their hiatus, please reach an agreement so we can all watch television in peace.
azupokedigioh 4 years ago
Boycott news corp nws corp...we're going to crash them we're in it till RM loses all his money!!
chere7up 4 years ago
All the writers want is 2.5 percent increase for online media and dvd sales, but the companies are too cheap.
mishra88 4 years ago
The writers want compensation for online media. Right now the companies get all the money for online media and the writers get nothing. The writer's are not asking for a lot, they just want compensation for online media. Everything is online now a days and writers just want a little compensation for it, but the companies don't care.
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invisibleisland 4 years ago
Lol, everyone's a writer now.
nukethewhales1986 4 years ago
i dont get it... how is downloading the show instead of watching it on tv affect them negatively? dvd sales?
i jus cant stand commercials and sometimes i'm busy on thursdays...
verbalwho 4 years ago
verbalwho. Currently the writers receive NOTHING for anything downloaded of the internet. Producers make millions off of advertising and broadcasting their shows online (with advertisements). If this were broadcast on TV, the writers, the actors, and anyone else who relies on residuals would receive them. They get nothing now. That's part of what they're fighting for.
geekgirl45 4 years ago
Okay, so...why are just the writers striking? And who's hosting these downloads? And contracts! What's it say in their contracts? And is anything they write THEIR intellectual property?
...No one can answer any of this, can they? Yeah, best to stay out of shit you don't understand.
-Tabris, a writer
tabrismacbeth 4 years ago
their contracts say nothing about the internet because watching tv on the internet is a new phenonmenon
taylortots12 4 years ago
Who are the people who affect this? Downloaders or the online stream episodes? Do the actors get paid when we watch the episodes on TV? I dont understand this whole business!
Eduard392 4 years ago
Yeah, no one does, but it's a strike! A legal dispute of royalty checks is EXACTLY like ending child labor!
-Tabris
tabrismacbeth 4 years ago
ooooh tough little Sandra Oh...pfff as soon her job is threatenedm, she'll buckle.
ssssfwwf 4 years ago
First off, I don't even watch any of these shows, therefore it doesn't really affect me. And if these SAG actors cared enough, then why don't they take a cut from their ridiculously huge paychecks so studios can fork it over to the writers. Without writers, actors can't work, can they? And have the studios pay the writers with bigger royalties for internet viewing while their at it.
fallenanjel 4 years ago
Sandra Oh is an ACTOR. just as i suspected.
dylandark 4 years ago
The Writers Guild Foundation has established an Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against the AMPTP, which began on November 5, 2007. This Fund is designed to provide emergency assistance for food, housing, transport, medical and other expenses, info at btlnews,org under strike blog or email me i will help direct you to forms ...spread the helpful information to those in need please
Pervenche09 4 years ago
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these writers/actors are greedy fuckers to
codyclemmons92 4 years ago
oky.......they have there point.....but what about all the people from other countries that dont have the possibility to see it on tv.......because the televisions dont have money to buy the series............what are they supposed to do if they love the series and wanna see them........i understand both sides!!!!!!!!!!
laurik2007 4 years ago
If this strike has had any effect on your life you are a great big LOSER. Buy a book.
mahowel 4 years ago
wait does SHE want compensation for the net/everything else ?! she gets paid enough. its the writers ! i personally think they shouldnt put episodes on abc . com...etc, if you miss it you can watch the re-play on a different day and if you miss it then tough. its tv.. not "free to view when you please"
alexlaw45 4 years ago
Google united america. Basically, if the writers can get scammed this easily, the rest of the industry is next.
Kirbysfan0 4 years ago
i don't really understand why you refuse to acknowledge the greatest television comedy of all time, but you are depriving yourself!
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
He's asking you to name writers, not actors.
Kirbysfan0 4 years ago
but half of the cast ARE writers.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
cast of THE office. its on nbc. its a great show. you should watch it. you know, when you're not working at the eatery.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
I'd like to see the tax returns of the "poor" writer/producers of hit shows released to the public. The outrage would be immediate that these greedy writers want more money.
hdtvcamera1 4 years ago
clearly i was referring to the actors supporting the strike. hence the mention of their sag cards. additionally, i think its hilarious that you asked me to name twenty recognizable writers. maybe if i was a writer i'd have the time to waste on such a meaningless task! however if i was to start i'd begin with practically the entire cast of the office.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
If this was ever a case of the pot calling the kettle asian.
garytelecastor 4 years ago
either way you're just making assumptions. tv personalities already have a high profile. it wouldn't make any sense to draw that kind of unnecessary attention to themselves, even if they weren't sympathetic to the supermarket strike.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
i don't know why you assume they crossed the grocery store lines. sag would pull their cards if they were made aware of that.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
Id rather see People like Sandra Oh getting payed $60,000 a year and give the remaining money to the writers. Honestly, actors are incredibly overpayed for their contribution to the world.
Avalancheau 4 years ago
i heard each actor on Greys gets paid around a million dollars an episode. correct me if i'm wrong but i read that in a magazine some time back.
cardigensweater 4 years ago
yep.. to which i say i would rather see them on an honest wage, and split the actors wages into the writers.
Avalancheau 4 years ago
it wouldn't be an honest wage with the studios pocketing all that money that their likeness (the likeness of the actors) generated. that would be completely dishonest. they are paid that much because if the cast of grey's anatomy was replaced, the show would fail instantly. the actors are the most crucial part of the whole franchise.
ibearbadnews 4 years ago
I agree, but The actors were nothing without greys anatomy, and most likely will be nothing after greys anatomy (did anyone say friends?) Many of them were never had heard ofs.. and its the Studio/writers who made them famous. Writers go on and continue to write, actors go on and jump on infomercials.
Avalancheau 4 years ago
The actors aren't on strike though, they are supporting the writers, the average writer doesn't make a ton of money, and even if they did they are still entitled to the money corporations make off of them on the internet. I saw some where that the writers for the office never got paid anything for some webisodes they wrote last year for which they won emmy's.
averagegatsby 4 years ago
A SAG strike is predicted to happen this summer. The actors are showing their support for writers for many reasons, one of which is that they hope the writers will support them.
RLviddy 4 years ago
I think its good their having a strike, if they dont like someting then they fix it, they dont wait for someone else to fix it, i think thats good. but i hope they give the writers what they want soon so i can watch my grey's again
smile325 4 years ago
Yeah I agree.
Floydika 4 years ago
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mlmatv 4 years ago
okay yes the ACTOR comment on laundry is dumb.....I also know actors on shows that do not treat these very people that do their laundry well,I believe we all have the right to be respected and appreciated......suffering is what my parenst went through in the war.
mamamelody 4 years ago
The best place I ever supervised people had a union. That meant that higher ups couldn't come in and work people 30 days straight without 1) asking people or 2) paying over time. Managing exhausted, angry people to accomplish some task is nearly impossible in these organization devoid of any type of understanding or the ethics involved in dealing with human beings! Go WGA! This strike is good for all of us!
parkviewmo 4 years ago
I think the writers guild has a just cause and I understand the importance of the union and all, but it is kind of funny (and probably not entirely helpful) to hear Sandra Oh make a comment about how the people who do their laundry are going to suffer.
Just saying...
Godslonelyman11 4 years ago
Well okay...yes these are people regularly employed..i.e crew people on shows, us Actors have to auditon over and over again and we know what it is like to unemployed even after you have done alot of shows,I say the writers are just for sure!
mamamelody 4 years ago
I know that the writers, in this case, do spend quite a lot of time unemployed between projects (which sucks).
All I'm saying is that the WGA is trying to clear up the misconception that all Hollywood writers are millionaires--it just seems counter productive (to me) when famous actors make comments like ""the people who do our laundry are going to suffer!"
But I realize people are out of work because of this and that's terrible. Hopefully the strike will be resolved soon.
Godslonelyman11 4 years ago
when is youtube going to pay me for all the comments i put on
come on homies, give me some dough, bro
long live chad and steve true bros
gabecollett 4 years ago
Oh, its you sandra
When are you going to start acting
give me my money bac for
that wine flic you were in, it suxed
Long live writers, give them their dues, you greed studio heads
gabecollett 4 years ago
There is no reason to get ugly..Sandra Oh is a talented Canadian actor and like the rest of us we just want to get paid for the work and creativity we provide.
mamamelody 4 years ago
creativity
actors need to get real jobs
especially those who arent that talented
or do theater, requires more energy, talent
Oh, Sandra Oh
gabecollett 4 years ago
what a ridiculous thing to say?!How is theater more valuable?or takes more energy? I have worked for 25 years in all capacities in tv/film/theater..I have clocked 72 hrs a week on shows, i.e films & seriess, so don't comment on things you have no clue about. AN ACTOR!
mamamelody 4 years ago
what about Political Actors
sorry for the offense
now for the defense
long live great actors, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis, Mamamelody, Al Pacino, Evin Spacey
gabecollett 4 years ago
Hahaha! okay that is funny! Political Actors like Bush....he is terrible! haha
Thanks for having a sense of humour and for the vote of confidence!Cheers!
mamamelody 4 years ago
Just wondering might you be someone we have seen on t.v.? How famous are you? I am totally crazy about this show. I'm just glad they got back to work. I"m probably one of the biggest fans Grey's has.
TheDimps61 2 years ago
THEY won't share the net? Ohhhh, they mean sharing online sales percentages. With WRITERS. We share the net just fine.
This is a fight between rich parties, and the broke writers who describe their diets and apartment conditions to counter this claim are not going to receive significantly bigger paychecks from online royalties, whether the WGA wins or not. I make my money from hard labour and TV is as free as gasoline. Now I'm writing more than these sods too, and for free!
rfillingh 4 years ago
Your time wasted. Sorry, you can't have it back.
And writing is hard too, you try to write 40 minutes worth of dialogue and actions every week for idk... 24 weeks or something? It's harder then you think, and then- they want them to do it for free so they can keep their five homes!
And what more are they asking? four more CENTS on a dvd! Do you know how much the writers for the Pirates 3 movie got out of 5 million? 6700!
Get back to me when you think that is too much.
swe1girl 4 years ago
when will they start paying NURSES a fair wage? Try striking about something that matters.
sunmaidliz 4 years ago 3
And getting paid isn't something that matters? Alot of people want higher wages, atleast THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING about it.
They don't want you to work for free, do they?
OT: How creative will the writers be if they have to worry about getting money? Not so much.
swe1girl 4 years ago
Found it interesting that some of Jay Leno's writers make over five hundred thousand a year. How much money do they need? lol
pongman 4 years ago
But if the producers are making 1,000 times that then they should get more. Just because theyre making a lot of money doesn't mean its the right ratio compared to producers and what not
xslygrrlx 4 years ago
If they can make 1.000 times that then they should. After all a show can make or break it for a producer he has more to lose and the writer still gets paid. I find it interesting that a lot of producers started out as writers. Perhaps these writers should just become producers if they want more money.
pongman 4 years ago
But producing and writing are different. Why switch what you love to do just for the money? Some producers will even say the writers make the show. Im suprised at how many people are against the strike.
xslygrrlx 4 years ago
lol, well why strike because of the money?
pongman 4 years ago
Well I feel like people who are against the strike just want their tv back. But if the studios gave a percentage to the writers when their shows aired online there wouldnt be a problem. What happens if online media increases over the next few years and television decreases- then the writers do lose money. Theyre just trying to prevent losing alot of money in the future compared to the amount they lose out on now.Plus most writers are not making an absurd amount of money now.
xslygrrlx 4 years ago
I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Youtubers could care less about tv. TV is twenty minutes of advertising and ten min. of entertainment, if you call it that. I'm on youtube cuz I hate tv except for sports. Hey as far as I'm concerned I hope the strike last for twenty years.
pongman 4 years ago 3
YOUTuBE is the best
The promise of Democracy has matured
now if we can get rid of Bush and put in Gore
we would truly live in the most Democratic Era
gabecollett 4 years ago
Actually I prefer Sen. George Mitchell.
pongman 4 years ago
I prefer Russ Feingold
gabecollett 4 years ago
you are the problem.....
mamamelody 4 years ago
you are fired
No more acting for you
long live the producers
gabecollett 4 years ago
Long live producers????
mamamelody 4 years ago
Maybe Gabe meant the Broadway show?
guapapote 4 years ago
you got me pongman
who are you voting for president
what about Obama 08ama
he will solve the entertainment crisis
I agree, sports is best thing on tube, best thing on youtube
is sacha baron cohen
gabecollett 4 years ago
I don't know. None of the above would suit me just fine.
pongman 4 years ago
it's so sad that in this country is still not educated on the Union system. This WGA strike is bringing knowledge to people all over the country that without unions, giant corporations will always abuse the working class.
thenewmco 4 years ago 3
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Most union supporters seem to be funny looking and ignorant. Interesting.
surrealpro2 4 years ago
But i think everyone has to realize that soon in a few years the majority of audiences will be watching tv shows off the internet and if writers don't protest for their fair now then who knows what will be revoked
liquidsnake2099 4 years ago
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o give me a break... the actors and writers are the greedy ones.. and they think someone controls the net! that's hilarious... these things happen and writers/actors need to shut their mouths. they get enough money. WHINERS
cujokid89 4 years ago
call me a retard but i dont quite get what shes talking about here... are they pissed about stuff circulating the internet and not getting paid more for it?
Ca2roline 4 years ago
they get no money for steaming video
LiteProductions 4 years ago 2
I could see a percent of the profits as a fair deal, but that would also mean that if the studio got no profits from streaming videos, then 1% (or even 10%) of zero is still zero. Maybe the studios don't make money off the internet because they spend all their profits from it on copyright litigation. (Anyone for whack-a-mole?)
userafw 4 years ago
lol...i am not a studio exec or a writer...but...it was funny.
tiberianfallout 4 years ago
besides, these writers get a lot of money already...so do the actors. This is amoral, insensitive, and selfish...we need to support our shareholders --YOU, before we jeaperdize the balance and be to hastey on a deal....which makes a weird balance that causes asymetry eventually causing poor quality in shows and movies....you don't want this. Therefore, you should support the studio...writers come and go...the balance set at the beginning is more important.
tiberianfallout 4 years ago
in other words: you enter the territory...see how it works...then you settle the figures for the writers...the studios must be the first to entire the virgin territory in order to amass money enough and pay the writers....not pay them before we even know how the internet market works.
Makes no sense. This is moronic.
tiberianfallout 4 years ago
'how greedy can you get..they won't even share the net'!!!!
what do you MEAN????? 'won't even share'...??? THE net is ENORMOUS...it must be experimented with first before the payment figures are settled...its still virgin territory..we are still entering...we want to be sure the profits are divided fairly before we commit to something and then have these insensitive writers sue and take away money.
so insensitive.
tiberianfallout 4 years ago
this is ridiculous. how can these writers be so insensitive..I mean we gave them the right to naturally withdraw everything from the table--i simply don't understand, how can they be so selfish.
tiberianfallout 4 years ago
People, if you aren't on the writer's side then you don't understand this issue. Writers deserve to be paid whether you turn on or boot up the screen you watch their show on.
royalgk 4 years ago 3
So I'm being lectured about writing and the art thereof by a person who was featured in such gems as Mulan II, Hard Candy, Bean, and Land Before Time XIII?
If someone wants to tell me about their woes with the movie industry, I'd prefer it to be someone who HAS HAD NOTHING TO DO with singing dinosaurs.
Tearon42 4 years ago 2
This is a funny comment!!
Atuhanan 4 years ago
I used to LOVE Grey's anatomy, but it has lost its zing this season. Just not the same.
DOLPHINCHRIS1165 4 years ago
Seriously... You're striking about not getting an extra couple thousand a year when you're already making hundreds of thousands, and calling people on the internet greedy? WOW... lmfao...
hdwblade 4 years ago
haha...the phat kats are unhappy because they're not getting that extra $5,000 a year...and by the by, these writers suck...there hasnt been one great show on the air, in decades!
lukexavierderivan 4 years ago
as if they don't make hundreds of thousands already... if anything THEY'RE greedy!! and WASTEFUL!
nimashukri 4 years ago
Tearon42 4 years ago
in the beloved words of Woody Allen........."This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!"
lukexavierderivan 4 years ago
Well, extra credit for quoting Woody Allen (a writer himself, by the way), but it doesn't really apply here. I don't enjoy those shows because I'm told to, I enjoy them because I actually enjoy them. No meta-theoretical media influence need apply. I made sure to include The "Sorkin Trilogy" (West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60) because these shows were marked by exceptional scripting and dialog. My only point is that writers are all-too-often taken for granted.
Tearon42 4 years ago
Also, by the way, on the topic of that "extra five grand," they aren't concerned about a lack of overall money, they're concerned about feeding their children when an often-fickle industry turns on them.
Tearon42 4 years ago
i see your point...hope you had a good Thanksgiving by the way. =]
lukexavierderivan 4 years ago
I certainly did. Hope you did as well. Actually, ironically enough, I wound up digging up Manhattan for the first time in a while. :D
Tearon42 4 years ago
BSG
Family Guy
...
A lot of the ones you mentioned.......
MysidianMoments 4 years ago
I do my own laundry, sweetie. Stop being cry babies and enjoy your 200K a yr... greedy bastards.
thomaskenny2007 4 years ago 3
Most intelligent people would care less if they stayed on strike forever. Read a good book, work with your hands or try creative writing. There are thousands of young talented writers out there. I imagine that given a chance most of the current writers guild could be replaced in short order and the viewing would be better. And no I'm not a jilted writer, I'm a 30 year career firefighter just happy to have a job I love.
InteriorCommando 4 years ago
RIGHT ON!!! Another real person risking your own life. Not for a paycheck for respect of yourself and others. You are someone for the young generation to look up to.
I think I have a tear in my eye.
shelli516 4 years ago
Yeah. Let's get a completely new generation of writers to sell out and take the places of the current ones. That'll show the fatcats in charge...
Seriously, though. It's about the networks not sharing the profits of the writers' works. If you do some research, you'll see that the writers have a strong case.
strayster2 4 years ago
Of course all of this means is that the price of everything goes up. If they have to give the writers more money then the advertisers will have to pay more to advertise and therefore the price of the product being advertised cost more. What goes around comes around,lol. So basically the writers lose cuz it will cost more for them to purchase things, and the rest of America.
pongman 4 years ago
You have to love these neoclassical books of the apocalypse that are always dragged out every time there's a strike or a raise in the minimum wage. Of course, they're completely ahistorical. During the 1950s and 1960s, when union strength was at it's highest in American history, inflation was quite low. These kinds of responses are simply cloaking attacks on working people's living standards in (shoddy) scientific theory.
pmheideman 4 years ago
Well, to give someone something don't you have to give up something? And if you don't you have to find another means by which to get it back. I was talking to a fireman who represents a union. He asked for more money for the union. The city gave them a raise,but they turned around and increased their healthcare cost. What do you think the city did?
pongman 4 years ago
Or maybe you have to find balance. Right now studios take home all of the money from residuals. These aren't mom and pop stores struggling to make ends meat. They are huge conglomerates who are essentially seeking to do to writers what they did last time with VHS sale -- undercut the very foundation of this medium.
Tippercanoe 4 years ago
Does anyone really give a shit?
PissOFFuWanker 4 years ago
Oh man. Worst protest phrase ever.
willfordbrimly 4 years ago
You think they're all writers.... they would come up with a better slogan. Well they are not getting paid so...
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papipablo 4 years ago
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