my truest love

Standing in his laboratory, Harvard professor Sean Eddy gazes at a row of vacant work stations. More than a year ago, this lab was filled with over a dozen researchers. On a given day they might be working independently on analyzing genomic sequencing or gathered around the group table, drinking coffee and helping each other troubleshoot questions about genomic data from different species.

Now, after his funding was terminated under the Trump administration, the computer screens are gone and the room is silent. He's one of the last people left.

If we use the example of who gets more video views, we can see Autumn Brown's interviews, the person right behind Sam in views is Assad, but they don't even bother promoting Assad to attract fans. So I think this is just an excuse for Amc to treat the Poc casts as if they're invisible, and Amc doesn't even need to defend themselves because many fans have already done that for them.

yes, exactly! we had a pretty interesting discussion about this here. i'd say, i rather see it as amc and the audience "working together" on creating this environment as a self-sufficient system.

basically, yes, amc is racist and is purposefully promoting sam more than anyone else from the cast, both because white leading actors are better for business and because a lot of people behind the network are conservative. as the result, amc doesn't try nearly enough for actors of color, even those who are almost as popular as sam (like assad) and when they try, it has "here, damn" vibe or feels extremely performative.

but it also wouldn't work if the audience wasn't very racist as well. it wouldn't work if certain lestat stans weren't trying to shut down every conversation about problematic nature of amc's marketing & questionable decisions because all they care about is the white lead (and they're angry when people don't care about him, because it makes them feel insecure, like they're doing something wrong). it wouldn't work if the difference in numbers wasn't so glaringly obvious. amc is racist, and it has plenty of soldiers working for free on their side.