It'll be unavailable on Sundays.

So can they stream live footage of tortured children from the anti-gay conversion camps they help fund? Maybe make people think twice about buying food there?

Likely some C-suite person who feels like they are actually an innovator instead of yet another MBA with too much power. To prove it, they're going to start a service that no one will use at a company no one respects so that they can brag about their "greatness" to equally clueless investors.

Unless they have discovered a way to beam a chicken sandwich over the airwaves, through my TV and into my mouth this seems like the most pointless thing ever.

So it sounds like nobody in this thread looked at the actual article.

This isn't chic-fil-a. It's the homophobic bigoted billionaire asshole who has turned a town south of atlanta georgia to a 2.7 billion dollar movie making industry by building a movie making compound. He's trying to usurp hollywood. His studios have been the filming location for many major blockbuster movies in the past several years.

The article even mentions that the guy has sold 200 homes to the tune of 110 million dollars right by the studios so obviously he's diversifying beyond chicken.

If there's a market for christian shit i'm sure he'll capture it, but i'm sure they will focus on what sells. Maybe they will try to be the epic games of streaming services where they undercut the competition by hiring cheaper labor and taking a smaller cut from the people who pay to use the studios the guy owns.

Unlike steam, nobody loves netflix, disney, hbo or any of the awful streaming services there are now. Even crunchyroll which is a bargain has a fucking awful app and streaming quality issues. Since you don't "own" the movies on the platform you rent access to there's no lock-in or cult following like there is with steam. Because of all this... people will go to whoever provides the best service.

Bigot Burger

They're gonna make soooooo much cult money from this.

Makes about as much as Netflix's current attempts to muscle in on the gaming market, Epic-style.

Why I continue to be surprised by corporate decision-making is beyond me.

Introducing, from the makers of bigot chicken, bigot TV!

So, they are trying to speed run the failure of McDonald's experiment with Redbox. Instead of creating a massively successful brand that eventually gets bought up and run into the ground by Christian nutjobs, the Christian nutjobs are starting a video business to crater on their own.

They already run what seems to be every other post on Reddit, so why not streaming, too.

Is it called Flick-fil-A?

Is it wrong that my dream for this is that it solely pays for development of incredibly gay coded TV shows, that the owners are too homophobic to recognize?

I don't wish that on any fabulous creatives, but I do wish that for all the money Chik-Fil-A is gonna waste on this.

On its face, the idea of the company launching an entire streaming service filled with feel-good stories just to sell chicken is a bit odd. But it feels important to bear in mind that Chick-fil-A is owned by the Cathy family, whose independently managed trust was instrumental in the foundation of Trilith Studios — the Atlanta studio most well known for its frequent work for Marvel.

Chik-fil-A is owned by oligarchs. I guess I’m one of the lucky 10,000 today.

The tops in boys. Short everything. Capitalism has finally reached the endgame.

"ChikFilA launching indoctrination vehicle for religious but mostly politically conservative causes"

Family friendly unscripted programs.

Are we talking '90s Nickelodeon, or real housewives of the rust belt?

Chick-fil-A is owned by the Cathy family, whose independently managed trust was instrumental in the foundation of Trilith Studios — the Atlanta studio most well known for its frequent work for Marvel.

Translation, they're friendly with Perlmutter. Wish that bastard would just up and croak already. Bet you a shiny penny their "feel good" entertainment will have a load of Christian messaging peppered in (read, anti-lgbtq+). Fuck those homophobes and their stupid ass chicken.

24/6 live streams of their kitchens, worst series ever

Steaming Service. For steamed chicken.

I mean everyone else is... Why the hell not!

Sounds like it'll be family friendly game shows and Christian reality TV.

Honestly, that might actually be a profitable model they could make work, if they don't fuck the infrastructure up, or allow cousin Billy to expose himself to female contestants on 3 different reality shows they're producing.

Oh wow, this might steal the attention of the five people who watch Pure Flix /s