Martin Gero’s Stargate project was halted, but many of us still believe Stargate deserves a future.
Please reconsider Stargate.
@AmazonMGMStudio@primevideo#SaveStargate
If you pitched @PrimeVideo today a show about a middle aged, overweight TV host starting his own farm I bet you they'd say "IT ISN'T BROADLY APPEALABLE"
Yet, they are on Season 5 of that very show...Clarkson's Farm, and it's HUGELY popular.
BRING BACK STARGATE
Amazon axing the new STARGATE series because it was supposedly too niche is such a frustrating executive decision.
This is STARGATE.
The original movie launched in 1994. STARGATE SG-1 ran for 10 seasons. STARGATE ATLANTIS ran for five more. Fans have kept this franchise alive for decades.
Martin Gero, who wrote on SG-1 and ATLANTIS, was developing the new series. Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi were consulting producers.
People who understood the franchise were involved.
And Amazon apparently got nervous that the show would appeal too much to STARGATE fans.
That is insane.
Die-hard fans are not the problem. They are the bridge.
They tell friends to watch. They explain the premise. They build word of mouth before casual audiences ever show up.
Studios keep wanting legacy IP without the people who actually love it.
But that “baggage” is the audience.
STARGATE does not need to be sanded down for everyone.
It needs to be good enough that fans bring everyone else in.
Hi @AmazonMGMStudio,
Many of us now work in filmmaking because of shows like Stargate SG-1.
It inspired us with its rich lore, believable character interactions, human drama, and its grounded military science fiction setting.
It showed the progress of humanity from its first baby steps through an unknown portal into a space-faring species.
The show was hopeful, human, and naturally diverse.
It showed the world and mankind coming together despite our differences to create something better.
Indeed, that is what the core of Stargate is and always has been.
We are from around the world.
We are men, women, fathers, mothers, grandparents, grandchilren, and proud of the values Stargate has always stood for. It's rare for a franchise that appeals to people across a political divide, but Stargate always has. It has always stood for the message that we are stronger together. These are the fans.
Martin Gero, Joe Mallozzi, Brad Wright, and everyone else involved have had decades to understand this. There is no better team to trust than the ones who've been there with us the longest. It's a symbiotic relationship.
I, and every Stargate fan, urge you to reconsider during this Window of Opportunity. The writing team was in the middle of their backswing during the cancellation announcement. At least let them finish a season.
We are worth taking a chance on!
I'm Emerald May, and I work in visual effects in Atlanta and I'm proud of shows like Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe that helped steer my career into a place where we make worlds come true.
Thank you.
Dear @AmazonMGMStudio@Amazon you are deciding to cancel a series because it needs to be different to bring in new audience? But why? Making a new series that stays true to the original will make current fans happy & they'll bring in new fans. #Stargate#SaveStargate
We are going to sue YouTube
But before we do, our lawyer is currently in the process of sending a letter to YouTube.
Over 2 weeks ago our channel https://t.co/n40YMVzSp7 was falsely demonetized under the "inauthentic content" policy.
Demonetized doesn't mean no ads though, all it means is YouTube will still run ads on the videos. But they pocket all the revenue, essentially stripping all the revenue from us.
We don't claim to be the pinnacle of quality content standards, but the following things do cause us to scratch our heads in confusion
1. All of the bigger channels in the same niche as us are monetized with no issues
2. We literally voice act, edit, etc, all our own videos while 100s of AI storytelling channels are still monetized
3. YouTube is fine with running ads on the videos, pocketing all the revenue. We assume if YouTube had such a big problem with the content, why still serve it to your advertisers?
4. 100s of reaction channels still stay monetized
Some examples of bigger monetized channels that are in the same niche as us are:
rSlash: https://t.co/xz5uTLol38
DarkFluff: https://t.co/bqptmUDkEa
Oz's Vault: https://t.co/zQiEMUIhOZ
We support these channels, the reason we are providing these channels as examples is to showcase how it feels like we're being targeted.
This has caused extreme distress for my team and I. Many of our livelihoods and families rely on this channel. Our community relies on the UnderSparked channel.
Many people support the UnderSparked channel because in a time of nonstop AI channels, we stepped up and used real voice actors to cater to that connection and community that viewers on YouTube crave.
We truly believe this demonetization was done in error, all we want is a real human specialist to help us fix the issue.
We're tired of constantly receiving only copy and pasted templated responses, constantly neglecting/dismissing our attempts at fixing the false demonetization.
We're kindly requesting for a representative from @TeamYouTube to help us fix this demonetization issue with our channel.
We don't want to send letters, or sue, or anything! We simply just want to go back to producing content for our community.
YOUTUBE DELETED 13 YEARS OF WWII HISTORY
At this point, I only have 6 months left to recover my channel. After that, everything on my account will be permanently deleted.
(155K subs) pure archive footage of tanks + veteran stories was nuked by AI for “child sexual abuse” and “harmful content with minors”. Zero kids. Zero violations.
Just historical footage. We need a REAL human review NOW! If you hate Big Tech erasing history: LIKE this post COMMENT “Restore Panzerpicture” REPOST this! if AI censorship of history must STOP! #RestorePanzerPicture #YouTubeCensorship #WWIIHistory #SaveHistory @TeamYouTube
@YouTubeCreators@YouTube please remonitize @HGTudorKTN he gives good information on narcissism and is not an AI channel. (Which is what he was flagged for)