What pisses me off is the fact that white people can cosplay as Asian characters and get away with it. But when a black person dares to cosplay as a character they like everyone gets racist.
A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.
Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.
Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.
So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.
Then the gatekeepers showed up.
When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.
Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.
$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.
The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
Change has never been easy. It takes persistence and determination, and requires all of us to speak out and stand up for what we believe in. As we honor Dr. King today, let’s draw strength from his example, and do our part to build on his legacy.
Okay @tiktok_uk@tiktok_us , I posted the TikTok Live Recap to my feed and it has flagged my account for producing “low quality content” and has demonetized me.
I have submitted an appeal, but please can we address the ridiculousness of the situation? Pls help boost this folks!!
Piss In The Wind tracklist. Album out February 6th. Pre-order / pre-save: https://t.co/6mOisVXwnb
1. PIXELATED KISSES
2. Cigarette
3. Last of a Dying Breed
4. LOVE YOU LESS
5. If It Only Gets Better
6. Love Me Better
7. Piece of You (with Giveon)
8. Hotel California
9. Tarmac
10. Forehead Touch the Ground
11. Past Won’t Leave My Bed
12. Fade to Black (with 4batz)
13. CAN’T SEE SH*T IN THE CLUB
14. Sojourn
15. DYKILY
16. Rose Colored (with Yeat)
17. Silhouette Man
18. Fragments (with Don Toliver)
19. Horses to Water
20. Strange Home
21. Dior