<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Movement: a niche does not fund a flyover]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Amazon's whole excuse rests on one idea: that this is a small, vocal fanbase, not real demand. The response to the cancellation proves the opposite. This was not noise. It was organized, funded, and two-way, and it put a plane in the air.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>The cast directed it</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Michael Shanks did not just object; he told a 100,000-follower audience exactly what to do: sign the petitions, call Amazon, "ask for Blair Fetter," the executive who made the call. When fans asked how to be heard, he answered them directly.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>The fans funded it</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Within a day of the cancellation, a community GoFundMe, the one Shanks endorsed, blew past its goal. Fans paid for an aerial #SaveStargate banner, mobile billboard trucks, and LA posters, organized by a fan flying to Los Angeles on his own dime to coordinate it.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>They consolidated</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Instead of scattering across competing petitions, the community pushed toward shared rallying points and a single hub, naming the creators, Gero, Wright, Mallozzi, as the people they want to build the future with.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>They convened</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">Dial the Gate and GateWorld ran live streams not to vent but to plan "where we go from here," with industry insiders walking fans through how a campaign like this actually moves a studio.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>And then they flew the plane</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">On June 16, that banner went up over Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City: a fan-funded aircraft trailing "#SaveStargate, fans want Martin Gero back," circling the building of the company that killed the show. Mainstream press covered it.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is the part Amazon's "too niche" memo cannot survive. A niche does not fund a flyover, name your executives, consolidate its own effort, and hold strategy meetings. That is a movement. And it is still going.</p>
<p dir="auto">Sign the petition: <a href="https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.change.org/p/save-stargate-with-martin-gero</a></p>
<p dir="auto">The campaign: <a href="https://savestargate.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://savestargate.com</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Janus</p>
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