📈 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.
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2023-07-27 → 2024-07-27 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▼ SHORT WBD (primary play). WBD fell 32.4% over the window → direction-adjusted R = +32.4% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +22.0%
→ α = +32.4 − (+22.0) = +10.4%
— what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
Stock-selection 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.
- Rule fired:
▶ HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5 ✓ (R 32.4, α 10.4)· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0· MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a HIT earn 1.0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. 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
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▼ SHORT | WBD | stock | PRIMARY | pure legacy studio/cable exposure to the shrinking production model |
| ▼ SHORT | DIS | stock | adjacent | Friedberg's own receipt - Nat Geo and other channels up for sale or spinoff |
| ▼ SHORT | PARA | stock | adjacent | smallest-scale legacy studio, most exposed to mid-tier content becoming uneconomic |
Mention log
“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.”
“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.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -58.9 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E139 2023-07-27 | init | +37.2 | 37.2 | E139 born by Sacks (explicit_prediction x3) [w=0.89] |
| E139 2023-07-27 | reinforce | +11.8 | 49.0 | E139 Chamath support x2 (new voice) [w=0.84] |
| E139 2023-07-27 | reinforce | +11.9 | 61.0 | E139 Friedberg support x3 (new voice) [w=0.87] |
| E139 2023-07-27 | reinforce | +8.5 | 69.5 | E139 Jason support x2 (new voice) [w=0.97] |
| E140 2023-08-04 | decay | -2.8 | 66.7 | E140 silent |
| E141 2023-08-11 | decay | -2.7 | 64.0 | E141 silent |
| E142 2023-08-18 | decay | -2.6 | 61.5 | E142 silent |
| E143 2023-08-25 | decay | -2.5 | 59.0 | E143 silent |
| E144 2023-09-01 | decay | -2.4 | 56.7 | E144 silent |
| E146 2023-09-22 | decay | -2.3 | 54.4 | E146 silent |
| E147 2023-09-29 | decay | -2.2 | 52.2 | E147 silent |
| E148 2023-10-07 | decay | -2.1 | 50.1 | E148 silent |
| E149 2023-10-13 | decay | -2.0 | 48.1 | E149 silent |
| E150 2023-10-20 | decay | -1.9 | 46.2 | E150 silent |
| E151 2023-10-27 | decay | -1.8 | 44.3 | E151 silent |
| E152 2023-11-03 | decay | -1.8 | 42.6 | E152 silent |
| E156 2023-12-08 | decay | -1.7 | 40.9 | E156 silent |
| E157 2023-12-16 | decay | -1.6 | 39.2 | E157 silent |
| E158 2023-12-23 | decay | -1.6 | 37.7 | E158 silent |
| E159 2023-12-29 | decay | -1.5 | 36.2 | E159 silent |
| E160 2024-01-06 | decay | -1.4 | 34.7 | E160 silent |
| E161 2024-01-13 | decay | -1.4 | 33.3 | E161 silent |
| E162 2024-01-19 | decay | -1.3 | 32.0 | E162 silent |
| E163 2024-01-26 | decay | -1.3 | 30.7 | E163 silent |
| E164 2024-02-02 | decay | -1.2 | 29.5 | E164 silent |
| E165 2024-02-09 | decay | -1.2 | 28.3 | E165 silent |
| E166 2024-02-16 | decay | -1.1 | 27.2 | E166 silent |
| E167 2024-02-23 | decay | -1.1 | 26.1 | E167 silent |
| E168 2024-03-01 | decay | -1.0 | 25.0 | E168 silent |
| E169 2024-03-08 | decay | -1.0 | 24.0 | E169 silent |
| E170 2024-03-15 | decay | -1.0 | 23.1 | E170 silent |
| E171 2024-03-22 | decay | -0.9 | 22.2 | E171 silent |
| E172 2024-03-29 | decay | -0.9 | 21.3 | E172 silent |
| E173 2024-04-05 | decay | -0.9 | 20.4 | E173 silent |
| E174 2024-04-12 | decay | -0.8 | 19.6 | E174 silent |
| E175 2024-04-19 | decay | -0.8 | 18.8 | E175 silent |
| E176 2024-04-26 | decay | -0.8 | 18.1 | E176 silent |
| E177 2024-05-03 | decay | -0.7 | 17.3 | E177 silent |
| E178 2024-05-10 | decay | -0.7 | 16.6 | E178 silent |
| E179 2024-05-17 | decay | -0.7 | 16.0 | E179 silent |
| E180 2024-05-24 | decay | -0.6 | 15.3 | E180 silent |
| E181 2024-05-31 | decay | -0.6 | 14.7 | E181 silent |
| E182 2024-06-07 | decay | -0.6 | 14.1 | E182 silent |
| E183 2024-06-14 | decay | -0.6 | 13.6 | E183 silent |
| E184 2024-06-20 | decay | -0.5 | 13.0 | E184 silent |
| E185 2024-06-29 | decay | -0.5 | 12.5 | E185 silent |
| E186 2024-07-04 | decay | -0.5 | 12.0 | E186 silent |
| E187 2024-07-12 | decay | -0.5 | 11.5 | E187 silent |
| E188 2024-07-19 | decay | -0.5 | 11.1 | E188 silent |
| E189 2024-07-26 | decay | -0.4 | 10.6 | E189 silent |