51% of leading roles on streaming services isn't enough.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hollywood-diversity-study-streaming-films-few-women-poc-1236622372/
It wasn't your imagination

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Lead actors of color declined from 2024’s all-time high of 51 percent to 36 percent in 2025 — from a majority to nearly a third. It was the first time in three years their share dropped below proportionate representation with the U.S. population. The share of streaming films directed by a woman continued to decline to 23.6 percent, the lowest this annual report, which began tracking streaming films in 2022, has seen.

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Wow the streaming services hate white people.

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The authors of the study blame backlash against DEI, industry contraction, and overall belt-tightening for the reversal of fortune. They believe diversity is treated as expendable or optional with budgets are cut.

Things don’t look any better further down the call sheet. Just 25.8 percent of streaming films featured casts that were majority people of color, down from 41 percent.

“It wasn’t too long ago that streaming was the place where people of color and women found their footing,” said sociologist and co-author Michael Tran.

“These trends away from diversity in films should raise alarm,” Hunt said. “And push the industry to action.”

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Nope untalented hacks.
Only so much talent you can pull from 13% of the population. (still 16.9% of lead actors, down from 18% last year)
Latino up from 6 to 6.7%
Asian up from 2 to 5.6%

Multi Ethnic (whatever that means) took the big dive from 22% to 5.6%

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The standout 2025 streaming film, for a variety of reasons, was KPop Demon Hunters.

“The film is a prime example of how culture circulates and how diverse representation doesn’t alienate audiences,” said Nico Garcia, a doctoral candidate in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television who co-wrote the report. “It can bring them in.”

One especially interesting statistic that jumps out about KPop Demon Hunters is that a larger percentage of households with Latinas watched the Netflix original movie than households with Asian women, UCLA found. Though made for a U.S. audience, KPop Demon Hunters leans heavily on Korean culture — and not just its pop music.

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Uh duh, Asians don't see other Asians as just like themselves.

The insanity of woke... keeps going broke.

ETA: It seems Jerry Seinfeld counts as multi ethnic...