u/CardinalOfNYC

Just a warning for any writers out there. They do screenwriting competitions and I have found one person who said they were paid when they won, but received no promotion. Another said they received aggressive tactics on twitter of the account trying to get people to submit by paying them.

The biggest red flag though is just their social presence, which is basically their entire presence besides a website with suspiciously little real information... Most of their social posts are just viral clips, stolen bits of interviews with writers and performers that they add music to, which is so lowest common denominator as to be deeply suspicious. Their website also has weird typos on it.

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u/CardinalOfNYC — 7 days ago
▲ 13 r/BeefTV

Both shows actually do cover similar themes of identity, people stuck in self perpetuating cycles, etc... but to go from a show covering that in the most feel good way possible to a show which dives into the darkness of the human psyche, yeah, whiplash is the term I'd use.

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u/CardinalOfNYC — 7 days ago

For the record, Ezra Klein is not involved in this. He founded Vox.com in 2014, which is different to the parent company, Vox Media, which existed beforehand. Klein left the company in 2020.

Certainly seems relevant though, not just for his project ending up part of this but for the broader implications around journalism which Klein covers.

u/CardinalOfNYC — 8 days ago