The Oscars may still represent the biggest night in Hollywood. However, viewership ratings suggest that for the rest of the country, it is just another Sunday evening. According to Nielsen’s big data plus panel, the 98th annual Academy Awards drew 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu. That’s down 9% from last year’s 19.7 million viewers.
The video game industry is in the spotlight again, and once again it’s for all the wrong reasons. A senior developer at Sucker Punch Productions, the Sony-owned studio behind Ghost of Tsushima and the upcoming Ghost of Yotei, has publicly mocked the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the social media platform BlueSky has become a disturbing showcase of deranged political rhetoric. Instead of mourning or condemning the violence, many users are celebrating Kirk’s death—and going further by demanding that other figures within the conservative spectrum be targeted next. The combination of BlueSky and Charlie Kirk has revealed a horrifying trend: online mobs openly fantasizing about assassinations with no accountability.
DC Comics has cancelled its brand-new Red Hood series following a firestorm of outrage against writer Gretchen Felker-Martin, a biological male who identifies as female. The cancellation came after Felker-Martin publicly mocked conservative commentator Charlie Kirk being shot to death and made inflammatory remarks about law enforcement.
The fallout from Charlie Kirk’s shocking death continues to ripple through media and politics. MSNBC has now fired longtime political analyst Matthew Dowd following his on-air remarks in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Kirk tragedy — comments that many blasted as insensitive, inflammatory, and outright disgraceful.
The shocking news that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot at a Utah event has reverberated across the country. While most agree that political violence is unacceptable, one of the more disturbing responses came from inside the entertainment industry. Gretchen Felker-Martin, a biological male who identifies as female who is currently writing a Red Hood comic for DC Comics, openly mocked Kirk’s death while also posting vile remarks about police officers, claiming they’re not “people.”
The founder of Kotaku openly mocked the death of Charlie Kirk just hours after a tragic shooting took the conservative commentator’s life.
Conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, sparking shockwaves across the political world and raising new concerns about political violence in America.
Cracker Barrel announced that it’s going back to its old logo after getting pushback from President Trump online.
Cracker Barrel just learned a very expensive lesson in branding: don’t mess with nostalgia, and don’t underestimate your customers. After unveiling a new “modernized” logo earlier this month, the restaurant chain faced swift backlash from loyal patrons, investors, and eventually President Donald Trump himself.
The folks at Imagineering now have a story they’re telling, and we all know they loudly proclaim that it’s all about the story, right? This one’s a real doozy. They claim draining the Rivers (now swamps) Of America and removing as much Americana as they can from Frontierland at the Magic Kingdom is part of “reimagining” and helping guests discover and create “their own folklore.” (And the unstated subtext, as with all such pronouncements from Disney management in the past 10 years or so is—“…and if YOU disagree, you’re an ikky, yukky doodoohead, so there!”)
What started as a seemingly innocuous advertising campaign for American Eagle’s jeans line has ballooned into a national debate touching on politics, culture, and cancel culture. Actress Sydney Sweeney, known for her roles in Euphoria and Anyone But You, became the face of the brand’s latest push, but a clever wordplay in the ads sparked accusations of promoting prejudice and problematic issues. The controversy escalated dramatically when the White House under President Donald Trump weighed in, defending the Sydney Sweeney ad and lambasting critics.
A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the Amazon-and-Google-backed maker of the Claude family of AI tools, for allegedly using their copyrighted works as training data for its large language models (LLMs). In his ruling on part of the case, U.S....
Negotiations over a potential $35 million settlement in the lawsuit between President Donald Trump and CBS along with its parent company Paramount Global have hit a significant snag, according to a new report from The New York Post. Paramount executives are reportedly hesitant to finalize the deal, citing concerns that a payout could be construed as a bribe given the merger approval process currently underway with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).