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Because the people who can make you more successful are all in LA. When you go to parties in Ohio, it’s not full of executives and producers and celebrities. It’s already there and if you want to increase your chances of making it big and be in proximity to those people then you have to be there. You can’t fly there from Minnesota once a week.

Same reason why finance people move to NYC.

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bc it’s where everyone else is

it’s like “oh if i want to hangout with all the ppl who i like and collaborate with them i should just move here”

  • it’s like a great place if you actually have money
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Work in is LA or at least more possible work.

Much as it would be cool to have your own scene in Akron, Ohio, they just arent paying attention there.

Which sucks, cause I would rather hear what’s up over at Akron, Ohio than another boring ass thing coming out of LA.

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This has been a thing since Hollywood took off. It happened with TV, Youtubers, Twitch Streamers, and now TikTokers. People here have already mentioned how it’s more about connections and rubbing shoulders with other people in your field. If your goal is to climb the social ladder and gain connections for bigger deals, then there’s a good chance you’re moving to LA. Filmmakers move to LA because Hollywood and because the weather is better suited for it.

I personally enjoy it when I can see a variety of content from all over the country that allows people to see different perspectives that aren’t LA. Some Youtubers I enjoyed watching like James Rolfe or CoreyKenshin ended up staying in their cities and are doing just fine. They also don’t have any grand plans to become huge multimedia giants and that’s usually what happens when people move out there when they’re already successful. They want to be even bigger.

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James Rolfe did have plans to get bigger. He wanted to be a filmmaker. But that dream went down the toilet the day he posted his misogynist non-review of Ghostbusters. He didn’t even see the movie! Now for every job he applies for for the rest of his life, the first search result will by the NY Times article calling him out for his bigotry. Goodbye Hollywood career! Hope it was worth it to trash a movie just because the stars were all women.

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Nah it’s more like he made his big movie and it sucked and even fans hated it because he tried to make it mainstream (he cast a young actress to be his love interest and gave himself an even younger black friend). He spent a fortune to film in socal too.

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I assume his film career not panning out the way he intended had way, way more to do with the AVGN movie sucking than his dumb Ghostbusters video

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Lots of successful people’s first films sucked. However, going in front of the whole world to tell us that you feel victimized by strong female leads is indeed a career-killer in Hollywood. There will never be a second film.

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When the NY Times calls your work borderline bigoted, yes that means he’s a bigot. It’s a loud, clear dog whistle to anyone who would ever hire him. Or defend him.

Why are people jumping out of the woodwork to take the side of this misogynist? WTF? Had to glance at the top banner of this site to check whether or not I was on :reddit-logo: for a moment.

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Yeah, while his refusal to see the 2016 Ghostbusters was incredibly childish and dumb (though on brand for a man who’s brand is that he’s a big manchild), the media response to it was completely blown out of proportion

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Sort of. He had plans to be a filmmaker and made a movie in LA. He then realized the difficulties of making a film in Hollywood and stayed in Philly to focus on his web series.

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I guess the NY Times article pointing out he’s a misogynist had nothing to do with it. That video he made was a career-ending train wreck. He did the same thing to his career as Michael Richards. Even Richards standing next to Seinfeld and humbling himself with profuse apologies wasn’t enough. Rolfe hasn’t apologized one bit. Because he’s not sorry he trashed a movie because his fragile sense of male supremacy was threatened.

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LA is ridiculous they built a European style city in the middle of a ludicrously hot swamp and wonder why it’s too hot when they’re using buildings designed for France, New York and the UK

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How does heat affect architecture and urban design? Sounds like an interesting topic

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I don’t know much about it but I know that for example the reason that Dubai is so hot as to be unlivable without major air conditoning is that it was built to the European style and not to the more traditional and sensible ways of building a city in the desert.

The heat of the place should have been accounted for when they built it

concrete is also really stupid in hot places https://time.com/5655074/concrete-urban-heat/

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LA as in Los Angeles not Louisiana.

New Orleans is too damn hot though, true.

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LA was built on wetlands though

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really? that seems so unbelievable given how dry Southern California is.

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It’s also Lower Alabama, in case we want to exile bad artists to the worst of all possible L.A.s.

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