IMDb Pro Account Shared by All of West Hollywood Shuts Down
The free ride is over.
From a bush in Hollywood, I can now confirm that the one IMDb Pro account shared by the entire city of West Hollywood shut down. Every WeHo resident shouted in unison, “what the hell.” as they simultaneously lost access to the site.
“I was collecting emails of managers I was planning on cold querying and then BOOM; I got logged out,” said Clark Grayson, a struggling screenwriter who lives with fifteen other struggling screenwriters in a single-family home in West Hollywood. “I went to check with each of my roommates, and one-by-one they also confirmed that they had lost access to the account. This is terrible. I have a Jason Statham feature that the world needs to read, now I can’t even find the right people to share it with.”
The closure of the IMDb Pro account has already made waves around the town. David Zimmerman of 3 Arts embraced the change.
“My inbox is the emptiest it has ever been,” Zimmerman said, with his feet on his desk, while playing paddleball. “I mean, I wasn’t going to read those emails anyway, but it’s nice that I don’t have to empty my inbox.”
Tracking the IMDb Pro account to its original owner, we discovered that the account was not shut down by Amazon, but in fact deactivated by the owner.
“I didn’t need the account anymore,” said Stacy Gibbs, a screenwriter-actor who recently booked an ad for Crest Toothpaste. “Sure, I shared it with friends, who in exchange gave me $5 each month, but it got out of hand with people sharing the account with others. To be honest my mom was paying for the account, which she agreed to do until I booked something and became a real actor. So, I’m sorry to all my friends and friends of friends of friends who no longer have access. Wait, is this like pulling the ladder up behind me? Look at you Stacy, pulling up the ladder behind you! You’ve made it girl!”
At press time, multiple WeHo residents were scraping together to start a new IMDb Pro account. The bush I hid in for this scoop was an Authenticator Bush.
