Another week, another bad headline for the country’s most successful whale jail.

The CEO of Sea World has resigned, after one little documentary called Blackfish led to a nonstop onslaught of protests and a plummeting stock price and a storm of outrage that continues to this day. Hopefully the next step will be the company's bankruptcy.

Something like this was bound to pop up in the wake of the acclaimed documentary Blackfish: a California state assemblyman named Richard Bloom has proposed a bill that would ban orcas from being used for performative reasons.

The animal-focused site The Dodo launched today, and its lead piece is an in-depth look at the impact the documentary Blackfish has had (and may have still) on SeaWorld. It's so rare that docs have this much pull in the real world.

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite recently told the New York Times that she approached her documentary Blackfish as a journalist with an open mind. The resulting film, which is about killer whales in captivity (specifically at SeaWorld and focusing on the 32-year-old orca Tilikum, who's killed three people), is nonetheless damning enough that it reads like animal liberation propaganda. We hear numerous testimonials from former SeaWorld trainers on the negative effects of keeping these giant, sensitive creatures penned. We see hidden-camera footage of SeaWorld guides feeding park guests incorrect information about orcas' lifespans and fins — the dorsal fins of captive killer routinely collapse, or flop to the side, which is rare in the wild. We see footage of brutal whale-on-human attacks. We hear nothing from SeaWorld itself.