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📈 Hollywood's strikes are a fight over a shrinking pie

The WGA/SAG strikes accelerate exactly what the guilds are striking against: studios adopt generative AI faster, mid-tier and tail content production stops penciling (Iger shopping Nat Geo and other channels), and the viewing hours the studios are fighting over are migrating to YouTube, TikTok, podcasts and individual creators. Union leverage is decaying at the same time, so whatever the guilds win lands on a structurally smaller base and legacy studio production economics keep contracting.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 74.6 GREEN
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT WBD
expression · bearish equities
RIGHT
result · return +32.4% · vs SPY +10.4%
2024-07-27
born 2023-07-27 (E139) → window closed

⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2023-07-27 → 2024-07-27 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT WBD (primary play). WBD fell 32.4% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = +32.4% (the call made money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +22.0% → vs SPY = +32.4 − (+22.0) = +10.4% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
    Direction-only read: +54.4% — did WBD move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    ▶ RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+ ✓ (return 32.4, vs SPY 10.4)
    · HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all
    · WRONG — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a RIGHT earn 1.0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath, Friedberg, Jason, Sacks | proxy-sensitive: DIS→MISS (-6.2%)

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2023-07-27)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT WBDstock PRIMARY pure legacy studio/cable exposure to the shrinking production model
▼ SHORT DISstock adjacent Friedberg's own receipt - Nat Geo and other channels up for sale or spinoff
▼ SHORT PARAstock adjacent smallest-scale legacy studio, most exposed to mid-tier content becoming uneconomic

Mention log newest first

Sacks
Sacks equities 44% · n=96 · E139 (2023-07-27) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 58:18 SUPPORT
“Well, both the beer industry and Hollywood are both the shrinking industries. And so when you got unions demanding more and more and more of a shrinking pie, something is going to break.”
Jason
Jason equities 49% · n=105 · E139 (2023-07-27) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 49:07 SUPPORT
“I think this is one of the fundamental things that the unions and Hollywood have not yet grok-ed completely, which is they're not fighting each other. They're fighting TikTok, YouTube, podcasts, and people making their own content.”
Friedberg
Friedberg equities 43% · n=123 · E139 (2023-07-27) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 45:02 SUPPORT
“You guys saw the latest Disney earnings release and Eiger said, we are going to consider selling Nat Geo and a bunch of other channels. There may actually be a spinoff because content creation for that mid tier or that tail no longer makes sense.”
Chamath
Chamath equities 42% · n=163 · E139 (2023-07-27) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 41:53 SUPPORT
“And then my second thought is like, I just think unions in general are probably not a very effective way to get these concessions anymore versus the tax that the union members pay.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Friedberg
Friedberg 43%
1 scoring event · 56% of moves
+42.0 → net +42.0
Chamath
Chamath 42%
1 scoring event · 18% of moves
+13.1 → net +13.1
Jason
Jason 49%
1 scoring event · 14% of moves
+10.1 → net +10.1
Sacks
Sacks 44%
1 scoring event · 13% of moves
+9.4 → net +9.4

⏳ decay drained -63.2 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E139 2023-07-27 init +42.0 42.0 E139 born by Friedberg (explicit_prediction x3)
E139 2023-07-27 reinforce +13.1 55.0 E139 Chamath support x2 (new voice)
E139 2023-07-27 reinforce +10.1 65.2 E139 Jason support x2 (new voice)
E139 2023-07-27 reinforce +9.4 74.6 E139 Sacks support x3 (new voice)
E140 2023-08-04 decay -3.0 71.6 E140 silent
E141 2023-08-11 decay -2.9 68.7 E141 silent
E142 2023-08-18 decay -2.7 66.0 E142 silent
E143 2023-08-25 decay -2.6 63.3 E143 silent
E144 2023-09-01 decay -2.5 60.8 E144 silent
E146 2023-09-22 decay -2.4 58.4 E146 silent
E147 2023-09-29 decay -2.3 56.0 E147 silent
E148 2023-10-07 decay -2.2 53.8 E148 silent
E149 2023-10-13 decay -2.2 51.6 E149 silent
E150 2023-10-20 decay -2.1 49.6 E150 silent
E151 2023-10-27 decay -2.0 47.6 E151 silent
E152 2023-11-03 decay -1.9 45.7 E152 silent
E156 2023-12-08 decay -1.8 43.9 E156 silent
E157 2023-12-16 decay -1.8 42.1 E157 silent
E158 2023-12-23 decay -1.7 40.4 E158 silent
E159 2023-12-29 decay -1.6 38.8 E159 silent
E160 2024-01-06 decay -1.6 37.3 E160 silent
E161 2024-01-13 decay -1.5 35.8 E161 silent
E162 2024-01-19 decay -1.4 34.3 E162 silent
E163 2024-01-26 decay -1.4 33.0 E163 silent
E164 2024-02-02 decay -1.3 31.6 E164 silent
E165 2024-02-09 decay -1.3 30.4 E165 silent
E166 2024-02-16 decay -1.2 29.2 E166 silent
E167 2024-02-23 decay -1.2 28.0 E167 silent
E168 2024-03-01 decay -1.1 26.9 E168 silent
E169 2024-03-08 decay -1.1 25.8 E169 silent
E170 2024-03-15 decay -1.0 24.8 E170 silent
E171 2024-03-22 decay -1.0 23.8 E171 silent
E172 2024-03-29 decay -1.0 22.8 E172 silent
E173 2024-04-05 decay -0.9 21.9 E173 silent
E174 2024-04-12 decay -0.9 21.0 E174 silent
E175 2024-04-19 decay -0.8 20.2 E175 silent
E176 2024-04-26 decay -0.8 19.4 E176 silent
E177 2024-05-03 decay -0.8 18.6 E177 silent
E178 2024-05-10 decay -0.7 17.9 E178 silent
E179 2024-05-17 decay -0.7 17.2 E179 silent
E180 2024-05-24 decay -0.7 16.5 E180 silent
E181 2024-05-31 decay -0.7 15.8 E181 silent
E182 2024-06-07 decay -0.6 15.2 E182 silent
E183 2024-06-14 decay -0.6 14.6 E183 silent
E184 2024-06-20 decay -0.6 14.0 E184 silent
E185 2024-06-29 decay -0.6 13.4 E185 silent
E186 2024-07-04 decay -0.5 12.9 E186 silent
E187 2024-07-12 decay -0.5 12.4 E187 silent
E188 2024-07-19 decay -0.5 11.9 E188 silent
E189 2024-07-26 decay -0.5 11.4 E189 silent