”Vid is a subscription video platform serving white audiences by making it easy for them to watch TV shows and movies that feature white stories and characters.” In most of mainland Europe this woukd be against the law
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Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
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#22“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
"for Black stories" would be a positive way to phrase this.
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#23”Vid is a subscription video platform serving white audiences by making it easy for them to watch TV shows and movies that feature white stories and characters.” In most of mainland Europe this woukd be against the law
No, it wouldn't. Please back that statement up.
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#24So offensive
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconding this. And imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The bizarreness and racist double standard behind this is just astounding seen from the outside.
> imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The difference between majority and minority is surely not that difficult to comprehend from outside the US?
They are only a “minority” because someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound to end up smaller, and somehow claim that division is of significant importance.
IMO the solution to that problem is definitely not to reinforce that division.
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#26“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
I wouldn't call it a cultural divide (despite what our media wants), I would call America more a collection of cultures and I love being exposed to multiple different cultures just outside my proverbial front door.
That said, this is a great idea and I wish this company the best. I'd love to see something similar for the Hispanic community, as well.
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#27“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
Seconding this. And imagine the outrage if someone had made “X for white people”. There’d be riots in streets. The bizarreness and racist double standard behind this is just astounding seen from the outside.
with precious few exceptions, pretty much every media outlet in the USA is already "X for white people." it's not necessary to phrase it that way, everybody already knows.
personally, i think it's great that the founders have chosen to sell this as "X for black people." it is much more honest and cuts right to the point. if they had not, if they had instead chosen words like "diversity," then inevitable drill-downs would be criticizing them for trying to hide their true intentions.
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#28Wow, I'm not American so I suppose it's a cultural divide; to me this just sounds super racist.
To each their own. Good luck!
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#29I can't help but feel like everyone commenting here read the headline, brushed straight past the lengthy explanation and went directly to outrage in the comment box. This is a streaming service set up to elevate content by black creators, to make up for the fact that the mainstream media under-represents those people. I'm struggling to see the outrage on a cultural level and on a startup level I can absolutely imagin…
100% agree. How is it racist to offer something as a business, it's not like it's a government or other public project. We already have BET so this is just a similar offering in a different format. "Netflix for black people" might not be a good choice as a tagline, though.
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#30Just from an addressable market standpoint, it seems like you have work cut out for you given that you’ve essentially isolated your product to 13-14% or so of the US population. Not to mention those in that segment that already sub to Netflix , other streaming services etc.