Thursday Thread: You are now Jeff Bezos... (but with way better hair) and Go! 😂
Welcome the world of micro-channels... where Wise AF telly could be a thing!
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Hello, Lovelies,
I don't know if I'm just late to the party on this one or if this is a new thing over at the Amazon Prime Video Empire, but they seem to be doing all of these live bespoke streaming channels.
They're terribly specific and obscure. So, there's a Live Midsomer Murders channel, which if you know the show, consists of 24 seasons of tea and cozy murders all set around Oxford, which every British actor known to man and woman has done their time on and, of course, there could never possibly be that much gruesome death in such bucolic Country Life climes, but there you have it. The channel is a veritable roulette wheel of Whodunnits, 24/7, and all out of order so you never know what you're going to get next. It's commercially sponsored, and specifically geared toward your weird little tea and mystery book-loving self, which leads me to the thread:
Divine reader, what would your channel be? And who would be your sponsors?
Because there's also an MST3K channel, there's a Classic Doctor Who channel where you could spend your whole life just watching old black and white episodes, and who knew there were so many! Then, there's a Murder She Wrote channel, and even Carol Burnett has her own channel. It’s got to be impacting the whole nature of advertising, creating these internal microeconomies within the site.
I would create The Live Thin Man Channel or The Live Screwball Comedy Channel with all the greats... like After the Thin Man (my favorite in the series), Bringing Up Baby, and The Awful Truth. The sponsors would have to be artisanal gin and bourbon makers, quality shakers, hand-crafted stemware, Folio Society versions of Dashiell Hammett, and all the books—a retro fashion line of fabulous Myrna Loy dresses so you could dopamine shop whenever you needed a little boost. Oh, and not be left out, but a full line of Asta pet accessories and treats... because we cannot treat them enough.🤍
But what about you, dear reader? What world would you build? The Swiftie Channel is both too easy and too difficult an answer… so let nostalgia work its magic.
OK, now you go!
🤍🤍🤍 - xoxo - gotham girl
My channel already exists... it's called Passionflix. For real. Elon Musk's sister created it where she takes romance books and turns them into movies. There are other romance movies on there, but for the most part, it's movies that she herself directs. I initially had a membership but wasn't watching it as often as, say, Netflix. I actually may try it again to see how she brings J.R. Ward's "Black Dagger Brotherhood" series to life. I really enjoyed reading that series and figured it would work better on Netflix or Prime.
I would do all the Formula 1 races from the beginning of time to the latest on a loop. If I ever want a good nap or night's sleep, I watch the first lap of Silverstone 2021 and to see the toad hurl himself into a wall at 140 MPH because he assumed Lewis was just going to yield and that time LH said, "Nah," and I sleep like a baby knowing Hammy wins. Senna's collision with Prost in Suzuka, making Senna the world champion that year, is also pretty splendid. I also like races with no crashes, but when an asshat loses? I smile. xo