Paramount completes acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, creating Skydance
Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!
Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)485I wish Bugs Bunny were real and could use a cartoon stick of dynamite on certain billionaires in a parodic, satirical way
Jenny Fleming74But surely a monopoly owning american television will have a positive impact on the industry! 🙃
🌻Tyler Breuch37Coyote vs Acme got released just in time.
Clay Tribune20Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV all under one roof? That is the end of an era, and I'm glad someone noticed it before the rest of us did.
harryacks.bsky.social18“David Zazlav is terrible for animation. I wish we had someone else in charge.”
That Old Broadbean15My big fear is they'll just let even the OG WB cartoons and films crumble to dust because these fuckers know the cost of everything and the value of nothing
josh mckenzie2089you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection
Stephan Krosecz61And unfortunately, as others have noted, indie animation is great but can't address this. Indie productions by their very nature cannot employ all the people who are struggling in the wake of these mergers. It'd be nice if somebody with many truckloads of money tried to fill that void, I guess.
Bill Newton49They fucked the cartoon I was a lead on 7 years ago, and now they have the ability to fuck at levels heretofore unseen. AINT CAPITALISM GREAT???
erin plasma41i think abt watching like late night liquid television, seeing like aeon flux, & how visually striking it was to the tune of me running out and nabbing burne hogarth books to try and learn to draw like that, & sadly so few ppl will stand to get happenstance-inspired like that now, almost by design
Chris “Chance!” Brown37This is the one time I’m going to be defeatist about this, because what they’ve done is further destroyed the traditional process of pitching and production of a show even further by being one of the Only Places In Town.
Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder32Colonialism in a nutshell. This is what it looks like when colonialism rots every aspect of life.
👻🕯️ Human Depleted Big Natural Resources🕯️👻32cartoons are dead, time for the rebirth. Come on you phoenixing son of a bitch, i want to make cartoons!!
Fernal-Red18Cartoon Network/ Adult Swim was my dream industry job if I ever got lucky and/or skilled enough to pursue such a job anywhere or pitch anything tbh. I've already increasingly been of the mindset over the years that shooting for indie groups and projects would be the move but now it's even moreso.
🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈⬛15we’re gonna get an influx of The New Norms in 2027-28, each of whoch will psthetically be attempting to stir controversy by having their terrible white boy comedians say they’re against cancel culture and wokeness
The Almighty Tallest14Skydance owns none of the Big Five Hollywood animation studios (Disney, Pixar, Sony, Dreamworks, and Illumination) or any of the Georgia based studios where practically all television animation is currently produced. Skydance's own animation studio hasn't made anything you have heard of.
The Skydance CEOs now acknowledge that layoffs will in fact be coming after the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, per @variety.com.
Jojo18...but it's never the bloated C-suite, is it?
Please Eject the RIP Disk 🪦91. Buy up all the companies 2. Smoosh 'em together and lay people off 3. ALL HAIL MONOCOMPANY 4. Less places for people to work 5. ??? 6. "You should be grateful we've allowed you to earn minimum wage in this factory building my iPhones."
GW88And subscriptions will still raise in price despite the layoffs.
Michael Love3Great job Rob Bonta, I hope you never have a day's peace for the rest of your life
sTu3Ah, the lessons you learn from a Julia Roberts - Richard Gere movie.
JB3Which politicians fell for the lies?
scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃17no one saw this coming except for everyone
Committee for the First Amendment11And so it begins, with thanks to CA electeds who caved to the oligarchs. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @robbonta.bsky.social @xavierbecerra.bsky.social @mayor.lacity.gov So afraid of threatened job loss they backed 100% guaranteed job loss. 🥀
Voices from the Left Podcast 🌹6Be it guillotines or submarines, eat the rich
Brian Dermody2My thoughts are with my former colleagues from Spike/ Paramount Network/TV Land/CMT, assuming that there are any left after the countless layoffs that came behind the round that got me. The restructuring will continue until morale improves.
Skydance Corporation, the company that newly combined Paramount and Warner Bros., will have an annual revenue of $70 billion, but will now have to wrestle $80 BILLION dollars of debt.
SaiyanMyNameE35Its partly funded by Saudi money so they wont have a damn thing to worry about. Not a single CEO or exc will lose a dime. Its the artists, actors, and creators who will suffer losses. All this merger has done is make the fake rich actually rich & give those with sinister wants more opportunities
Mr.Myoozik17Oh boo hoo, they have debt from all the financial failures they created in the past
Ultra-Shounen-Kai-Z #SplitTheSkydanceMerger8I'm looking forward to see how Skydance will solve the debt
Catfox 🆖6Boycott their ass, I want this company to be kicking and screaming as it sinks ever more into debt.
Lizardguy | check pinned post6So... who or what do we have to destroy to make their debt worse?
Mike Zhou4Let's see if they try to deal with their taxes on that!
Jimmy Darnell26Even w/the Saudi backing(given the Iran war will get worse) David Ellison won't be available to solve the debt problem especially if he pulls a "Zaslav" and make things worse I will only give people more reason to see this merger collapse.
Wicket18You know how people say to other people that they gotta face the consequences of their actions, that’s one of em.
Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)17please god this could be really funny
Mr Buttons 🏴☠️🤡 soft clowning era. I wrote a fic, once 🏴☠️11Can someone send them a calculator?
The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️🌈 Halloween Era8Oh, look at that. $80 BILLION dollars (I repeat, $80 BILLION DOLLARS) of crushing debt! I am not a business expert, but looking at this report, this does NOT bode well for this merger at all... I told you this was a bad idea.
Matthew the Grim Reaper 🏳️🌈8Especially knowing that this is what the outcome turned out to be on day one for Dunce Ellison.
Keith Goulette 🎃7Coming soon Skydance+ for 49.99 a month probably
Ultra-Shounen-Kai-Z #SplitTheSkydanceMerger7I can't wait to see Skydance try to solve the debt...
Justin Amandro6Shame on those who let this merger go through
TFanberry4I told you that this is a bad idea.
Warner Bros and Paramount have officially merged. DC Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CNN, CBS, HBO and Paramount+ are now all under the same company.
💀SpooKW💀 (Rebooting...)31I'm giving them a year.
Anywhere but 🌎24This is a fking disaster.
David A15Well this definitely won’t make things worse for everyone.
Steven the Printer13Get ready for a big bankruptcy.
HistoryRepeating247The monthly subscription will probably be a mere $99.99 ...with ads.
Zeke Fowler aka Cosmic_Rejects5Okay, I'll stop watching those networks. YouTube has better shit anyway.
Eileen Gaye12Movies are now done, thank you for participating! The good news is that you can go back and watch Burlesque at any time of your choosing.
La Llama School10A ver qué se cuenta John Oliver este domingo.
hykicnova10the very next year probably
GᴀʀʀC7*the countdown starts* Let's see how long this'll last.
isabella 🦴7it might be over 😞
Dawn of The Deadname🧟♀️5Capitalism breeds innovation through competition :)
Priscila🦋 (bot de Dillom)5no hace falta pagar Paramount+ porque se suma a HBO!!
Skittles the dragon4Media is going to be 10x worse y’all. Cancel this streaming services and get physical copies books, DVDs etc etc.
Out of Context Twende2Goober and Boda Boda Agency have officially merged
David Burne 2This is truly a dark world we live in and it's only going to get darker beyond.
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick joins Board of Directors for new Skydance Corp (Paramount-WB merger) ➡️ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
PotagerMaximum70Skydance Board of Directors be like
No escape from this prick.
Hex Production Hour24Bobby Kotick friend of the financier? That Bobby Kotick?
Super Phase12You’d think being allegedly associated with Jeffrey Epstein would come with atleast some consequences. Not in modern America I guess.
Malcolm Irons9trading one villain for another.
Taylor BLOODLETTER7BREAKING: Guy in Epstein Files Hires Guy in Epstein Files
Tred15Let's give him a chance. Maybe he'll do great.
White Blaster Beetleborg Donald15Oh, NOW IT'S GOING TO CRUMBLE INTO DUST.
male to fujoshi transsexual11The US media ecosystem is like if someone were frantically attaching new cars to the back of a rolling trainwreck.
THE Vinz Vektor - EN Vtuber10EVERY industry is on the precipice of a crash, dude. These [redacted] are all about to be [redacted] out into the middle of the [redacted] and [redacted] to [redacted] like dogs.
Vampire Hunter D: Blu-dlust7Ellison really out here forming the Axis powers of the entertainment industry, huh
GnoWolfStyx 🏳️⚧️✏️🍉7Like puking on a pile of shit
victoria rose, paws-ta pass catte 🍝6for this and many, many reasons, including some recently independently reported, fuck bobby kotick
67 rizz4didnt disney teach us anything about how monopolys are bad?
Straw Hat4The worst executive in contemporary gaming
Neon3I don't understand how someone of his history is allowed to do anything of note ever again but I suppose the president is John Pedophile so anything goes anymore
Ah, the whistle of the post-merger layoff train. “Keeping jobs in Hollywood”: oh, please.
Bugs, Yaoist149who could have seen this coming
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli31Fewer jobs! More slop and customer data farming!
Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️⚧️4off topic but it never ceases to amaze me the rev has yet to kick off when the rich motherfucker ruling class is chock full of imminently punchable faces.
Uncle Space Ghost3If nothing else, this should cement in people's minds that Gavin Newsom should never be president on the grounds of either being complicit in media monopolization or walking around on this planet as the world's most gullible fuck.
TheSickness2Great work @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov no notes. You definitely didn’t get hoisted by your own petard you schmuck!
At this point, do not give any money to any Skydance, Paramount, or Warner Bros production in theaters. Yes, that includes anything Sonic, TMNT, DC, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, anything you'd like to see. Hate to break it to you, but your money supports fascists now if you go see these.
GᴀʀʀC10Fascists as well as legit sex pests.
RamseyTheArtist3Situations like this is why I get most of my physical media second hand.
CrocsRuleSteve🇦🇺3Pretty conflicted with that viewpoint. Maybe you’re right. But on the other hand, I just cannot ever pass up a chance to see any kind of anticipated movie in cinema. I would never support fascists though!
HeckmanFT7 🎃2a more safer option would be this 🏴☠️
Colin Ent Prod2It was sad that I got a pre-order of Coyote vs ACME blu-ray like 1 week ago when Skydance managed to obtained Warner Bros. This might be the last Warner Bros. that I owned.
Matt G. ♾️🍉22Well, I'm going to be careful on what movie to choose away from both WB and Paramount from now on.
sable 🏳️⚧️3good thing i dont have paramount....
Gaia_BentosZX53Also if you defend DIGGER and the TERF wizard shit you are the reason why WB initially was looking to write off Coyote v. ACME for tax.
GᴀʀʀC2The only upside to this is if the merger will fail and collapse in on itself. It's very possible though Idk when.
