in which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal people

www.hollywoodreporter.com “F*** These Trump-Loving Techies”: Hollywood Takes on Silicon Valley in an Epic Presidential Brawl

L.A.’s liberal moguls are coming after Elon Musk and the rest of the Silicon Valley billionaire boys club in a political clash of the titans: “People are putting up a lot of dough just to teach these dudes they can’t buy an election.”

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If you were to stick a pin in a timeline at the exact moment Silicon Valley declared war on Hollywood, it would likely land on Aug. 29, 1997. That’s the date Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph got together in Scotts Valley, about an hour south of San Francisco, and started a little DVD delivery company called Netflix.
Weird bit of critihype that ignores a massive amounts of things. Napster and Blockbuster for example. Massively overestimates the power of SV imho, and a bit ironic as of all the various media providers like Netflix, netflix is often not considered that highly from what I can tell. (In .nl iirc the big non-american providers are also the NPO and Videoland owned by RTL. Both traditional players in the market.
- True enough, but it feeds too beautifully into the terminator reference that closes it out.
- as of all the various media providers like Netflix, netflix is often not considered that highly from what I can tell.
  Well, it should not be considered that highly, but for some god damn reason they occupy a letter in FAANG since forever.
  Probably only because if you remove the N the acronym stops being that cute.
  
  FAANG came about because of "unexpected growth" in how those could "surprisingly" capture money, as time has passed it's become clear how all of them did so in pretty shitty ways (of the bigtech-flavoured "it's better to never ask for permission, fuck 'em" variety)
  netflix's burgeoning unpopularity is a far more recent thing. I could guess at a few inputs, but not really sure how much each contributed
  (idle thought: without the N, it's probably be GAFA or something, or finding another letter to substitute and make a tortured reference out of that)
  
  FAANG came about because of “unexpected growth” in how those could “surprisingly” capture money
  I don't know the origin, but I came to know the term itself from my time as a freshman Computer Science student, where "working at FAANG" was to be the highest career thing you could aspire to.
  It was always extremely confusing, cause like, Amazon, Apple, Google - I get those, they actually have things they work on, I'm sure working on AWS or like the internals of Google Search has to be interesting for a CS person, but fucking Facebook? The fuck does Facebook do? What unsolved technical challenges lie in a message board? Same goes for Netflix.
  
  @V0ldek @sneerclub For both Facebook and Netflix, the interesting technical challenges are secondary to scale.
  
  @froztbyte @V0ldek it has drifted
  http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GAFA
  
  @billseitz @froztbyte @V0ldek But F is obsolete.
  It’s now MAGA.
  Oh, wait: G is obsolete too
  MAAA

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