That noise you’re hearing? It’s film and TV sets around the globe going quiet. After a few dramatic weeks of negotiation, the talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios failed. And Twitter was ready with reactions and plenty of actors strike memes.
This means no more new movies or TV shows. No more drama-filled press junkets. No more Oppenheimer or Barbie movie premieres. And, worst of all, no more weirdly specific series that you can make your whole personality for a month.
Hollywood’s writers have been striking since May 2nd. And, as of midnight last night, the actors are getting ready to join them. Especially after a statement from Disney’s Bob Iger. So, we gathered the best memes and Twitter reactions to the first actors strike since 1980.
The Best Memes and Twitter Reactions to the 2023 Actors Strike
1. Blame the studios.
The directors, makeup artists, and everyone else walking on set with no actors and writers in sight: #SAGAFTRA #wga #WritersStrike #ActorsStrike pic.twitter.com/6f3xRYnNrS
— 𝙶𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎✖️✖️//💥⏳🥀🐉 DBD ERA🔍💀 (@giselleb1234) July 13, 2023
2. Coming in hot!
3. It’s Morbius time.
4. Biden seems a bit… busy these days.
5. TW: Billionaire Spider
6. The Oppenheimer cast: “FIRST!”
7. Reminder to tip well.
8. KFC and Taco Bell have entered the chat.
9. Did capitalism write this?
10. Don’t spend it all in one place.
11. Kronk stop making muffins and help us out here.
12. Join the club. It’s cool. We meet on Wednesdays on the picket line.
13. Ding ding ding!
14. Let’s just say things are not looking good for you being the hero.
15. Maybe he’s lost in Tomorrowland.
16. They Ken do it!
SAG and WGA striking together. pic.twitter.com/a2H0vjY23h
— ʟᴜᴋᴇ ʙᴀʀɴᴇᴛᴛ 👨🏻🍼 (@LukeBarnett) July 13, 2023
17. How you do anything is how you do everything.
There’s an episode where she literally refuses to cross a picket line. https://t.co/v3Bmc3O8wu
— ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) (@milkofcolor) July 13, 2023
18. Now we just need to bring back Wet Seal.
Fran Drescher becoming one of the consequential union leaders of our time is an arc I am absolutely delighted by as both a union gal and a '90s kid.
— Emily St. James (@emilystjams) July 13, 2023
Why Are the Writers and Actors Striking?
Primarily because they feel that their wages don’t reflect fair pay in today’s streaming era. Not because LA has such nice weather and they want to spend all day outside. Or at least not just because of that.
While there are some writers and actors that make eye-boggling amounts of cash for roles, most do not, and they’re still far below what studio execs earn. And then there’s the whole AI thing. We’ve watched enough movies to know that AI needs limitations.
The writers’ and actors’ unions negotiators were trying to raise wages, regulate the use of artificial intelligence and digital likenesses, and increase streaming residuals.
This is the first time in 60 years that the actors and writers have been on strike simultaneously. So far, there’s been very little movement on the WGA side. But, hopefully the added weight of 160,000 actors to the WGA’s 20,000 will get the ball rolling. If not, someone call Miley Cyrus to get that wrecking ball in motion.
Especially because according to a recent article in Deadline, “Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to ‘break the WGA,’ as one studio exec blatantly put it. To do so, the studios and the [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ] AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.
“‘The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,’ a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it ‘a cruel but necessary evil.'”
We’re pretty sure there’s some movie that explains that this is a bad idea. Or just like…human decency.
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