>American animation gets outsourced to South Koreans >South Korea cheats and outsources to China >China cheats and outsources to North Korea
Isn't media-making magical?
Bigger rabbit hole than that. Remember the Sony hack that was supposedly done by North Korea as retaliation for that Seth Rogen movie The Interview. And now it turns out Seth Rogens cartoon may have been "unknowingly" animated by the norks. Hmmmm I am noooticing.
>American animation gets outsourced to South Koreans >South Korea cheats and outsources to China >China cheats and outsources to North Korea
Okay? This isn't new.
I told you bro. I warned you about those east asians.
Not since 2021 when sanctions on SEK were implemented
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0526
The US now hits all people and companies who work with them
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/treasury-sanctions-north-korea-animation-studio-224131.html
For an animation fan, seeing this "news" break is infuriating. We've been telling people that's how things work for fricking decades now, and it was a huge factor in animation's decline in the west. But now that the news says it's time to, suddenly everyone else cares about it too. Oh but they're just going to whine and try to get a show cancelled instead of actually do anything to fix it.
>American animation gets outsourced to South Koreans >South Korea cheats and outsources to China >China cheats and outsources to North Korea
Okay? This isn't new.
>Pay mechanic to work on my car >He takes it to a shittier mechanic without telling me >That shittier mechanic then takes it to an even worse mechanic who doesn't have a license to work on cars >It's my fault I didn't know this awful mechanic was working on my car
1 week ago
Anonymous
Sure, but you didn't unknowingly take your car in for repair. The headline only says it was unknowingly outsourced, full stop.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Oh so you are moronic
1 week ago
Anonymous
The headline should say something like, "Outsourced US animation work may have been unknowingly passed to North Korean studio, according to documents found on North Korean server." That way the responsibility for outsourcing is still placed firmly on the US studio.
1 week ago
Anonymous
It wasn't just the US who outsourced it though. Your new headline absolves the South Koreans and Chinese from the "heavy burden" of outsourcing.
1 week ago
Anonymous
The problem is US work being outsourced away from Americans. The South Koreans outsourcing to the Chinese and then to North Koreans could all be prevented by giving Americans jobs instead of outsourcing in the first place. Let the South Koreans worry about South Korean jobs and the Chinese worry about Chinese jobs. This American news outlet should put the blame on the American company to pressure them to hire Americans instead of outsourcing.
1 week ago
Anonymous
did you unknowingly take your car to a mechanic? would it be accurate to say that?
I highly doubt North Koreans are given the freedom to work on international entertainment. They probably just have files from their random hacking attacks as they make a lot of money from ransomware extortion.
The people working on these things are all based on Pyongyang, the only people who get to live there are people who don't even have grandparent, parent, sibling or child or grandchild that's committed a crime or shown any level of disloyalty towards the state, party and Kim family. They get all sorts of privileges like being allowed to consume foreign media if its important to their job somehow.
Nobody knows which is why everyone is so obsessed with them. That's what happens when you just mind your own business, people assume you're hiding something crazy.
I don't understand what this means
>American animation gets outsourced to South Koreans
>South Korea cheats and outsources to China
>China cheats and outsources to North Korea
Isn't media-making magical?
Bigger rabbit hole than that. Remember the Sony hack that was supposedly done by North Korea as retaliation for that Seth Rogen movie The Interview. And now it turns out Seth Rogens cartoon may have been "unknowingly" animated by the norks. Hmmmm I am noooticing.
Hopefully Seth Rogen is executed for giving aid and comfort to America's enemies.
I told you bro. I warned you about those east asians.
if we can make the last hitman hire the first, that's a comedy
holy shit, its just like attack of the clones!
Too Old To Die Young has a subplot like that. They end up killing the wrong guy
was just about to write this, last guy in the chain was some crack addict who mistook who the target was in a photograph, it was hilarious
Animation has gone from metaphorical slave labor to literal slave labor
Why is this news? The Simpsons has been openly for years being outsourced to North Korea via SEK studios.
Not since 2021 when sanctions on SEK were implemented
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0526
The US now hits all people and companies who work with them
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/treasury-sanctions-north-korea-animation-studio-224131.html
>unknowingly
does it really matter if the slave labor is south or north korean?
European animation used to be outsourced to North Korea a lot.
For an animation fan, seeing this "news" break is infuriating. We've been telling people that's how things work for fricking decades now, and it was a huge factor in animation's decline in the west. But now that the news says it's time to, suddenly everyone else cares about it too. Oh but they're just going to whine and try to get a show cancelled instead of actually do anything to fix it.
The Simpsons made fun of this in 1994.
They did it again during the Banksy couch gag.
I think most people knew about outsourcing to Asian countries, but North Korea is a new twist
Unless you're being willfully ignorant, it absolutely is not.
>American animation gets outsourced to South Koreans
>South Korea cheats and outsources to China
>China cheats and outsources to North Korea
Okay? This isn't new.
>unknowingly outsourced animation work
How does one unknowingly give their work to someone else in exchange for pay in an agreed-upon contract?
That someone else gives it to someone who gives it to someone else
They still knowingly outsourced the work, so they're still fully responsible and can't claim ignorance.
are you moronic?
Are you illiterate? The headline clearly tries to absolve them of responsibility. It claims the outsourcing was entirely unknown.
>Pay mechanic to work on my car
>He takes it to a shittier mechanic without telling me
>That shittier mechanic then takes it to an even worse mechanic who doesn't have a license to work on cars
>It's my fault I didn't know this awful mechanic was working on my car
Sure, but you didn't unknowingly take your car in for repair. The headline only says it was unknowingly outsourced, full stop.
Oh so you are moronic
The headline should say something like, "Outsourced US animation work may have been unknowingly passed to North Korean studio, according to documents found on North Korean server." That way the responsibility for outsourcing is still placed firmly on the US studio.
It wasn't just the US who outsourced it though. Your new headline absolves the South Koreans and Chinese from the "heavy burden" of outsourcing.
The problem is US work being outsourced away from Americans. The South Koreans outsourcing to the Chinese and then to North Koreans could all be prevented by giving Americans jobs instead of outsourcing in the first place. Let the South Koreans worry about South Korean jobs and the Chinese worry about Chinese jobs. This American news outlet should put the blame on the American company to pressure them to hire Americans instead of outsourcing.
did you unknowingly take your car to a mechanic? would it be accurate to say that?
"""""unknowingly"""""
I highly doubt North Koreans are given the freedom to work on international entertainment. They probably just have files from their random hacking attacks as they make a lot of money from ransomware extortion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEK_Studio
The people working on these things are all based on Pyongyang, the only people who get to live there are people who don't even have grandparent, parent, sibling or child or grandchild that's committed a crime or shown any level of disloyalty towards the state, party and Kim family. They get all sorts of privileges like being allowed to consume foreign media if its important to their job somehow.
They've been doing this stuff for a very long time
Are there North Korean animation studios?
Do they make local propaganda films or just collect money from outsourced productions?
Nobody knows which is why everyone is so obsessed with them. That's what happens when you just mind your own business, people assume you're hiding something crazy.
So if it's a sweatshop that means we won't have to wait 2 years this time, right?
how come animation isn't at the state yet where you can just draw 1 frame every couple of seconds and have a computer interpolate the rest
We're basically there but the tech is purposely being withheld from the public because of how powerful it is.