The Max credits thing is obviously going to be a big, stupid problem that needs to be fixed

In terms of its own goals in the digital medium, Warner Bros. Discovery’s new “Max” is the unwanted gift that keeps on being given.A few days later, launching a “new” streaming service amidst a writers’ strike is still somewhat silly and almost encouraging, mostly because studios aren’t willing to give streaming project writers their due, only The way this is done is by lumping all the appropriate credits into a single “creator” category, blurring and blurring the lines between so much creative work.

And, it turns out, this creative misattribution isn’t even a serious petty and deliberate burn that we can respect in at least one perverted way. A The new report comes from deadline Says WBD execs didn’t even know they were about to step on this particular rake, as the “Creators” tab was apparently the product of distressed IT folks who faced the challenge of pulling together Warner Bros. Discovery’s vast content library. Herculean task — HBO, Discovery and other Warner Bros. properties — combined into one service with little direction. Rather than dissect all the writers, directors, producers, and more who make these shows, movies, stand-up specials, animated series, and more — and face the rush to get Max out the door — they opted for the all-encompassing “Creator “s things. After the release of the Max earlier this week, WBD executives apparently didn’t see the problem until people started yelling at them.

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Of course, the crux of all of this is that, at least from a consumer-facing perspective, there’s really no reason to rush any This; no one other than WBD execs is asking the studio to bash HBO Max and Discovery+ together, especially not in such a shoddy or sloppy way. Nobody on a higher level even apparently wants to ask credit for how the service will present the people who actually make the content, the idea that they all profit from it is just icing on the shit cake here.

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this deadline Reports suggest that untangling this mass of “creators” could take weeks of service time, because it’s not just that they can push a button and categorize everyone involved in, say, mad Men, or any of the hundreds of other shows and movies influenced by it, into its proper place. When asked for comment, HBO apparently reminded reporters of their “we’re working on it, we swear, please stop yelling” comment from earlier this week, which, in fact, didn’t seem to stop yelling at all yell.

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