Jacob Savage

But I think if you look at the numbers, the number, you know, I went into depth in this article about the sort of broader numbers within all these different industries.

And the year I moved to Hollywood, there were about 48 percent of the lower level writers were white men.

Which honestly seems I think white men for whatever reason were more likely to go into this field partly for you know, whatever historic reasons Maybe partly because of some residual Discrimination I can't I don't know but I think 48% was about the number of white men who were aspirants for this for these jobs in 2011 by 2024

that was 11% was the number of white men who are getting these jobs, which is, you know, obviously you go from being one and a half times more represented via their population to like one third within the space of a decade.

And it's sort of astonishing when you really unpack that, what that means.

It was not a slow change.

It was not, you know, we're going to have we're going to hire, you know, 1% less white guys every year.

It was we're just going to stop.

And I spoke to a showrunner who

reached out after the article was published.

And he said, actually, that 11% number is not even right because the 11% involves all of the true nepo hires that the showrunners had to make.

So an actor's son got that job.

Someone with some connections got that job.

So what you're really talking about is that no one was let in who didn't either have a connection to begin with or some sort of other identity, I suppose.

I do believe in merit, yes.

Yes, I do.

I think a lot of the people who would have come up to create the next generation of shows, and I'm not counting myself there.

I don't consider myself a genius.

I think I'm a good writer.

But I think there are plenty of people who would have been releasing shows around now and been at that stage in their career who never got off the ground.