This is set to be even bigger than the 2007 WGA strike, which was ~12k people for 100 days. WGA had some precedent-setting wins with that, hopefully the same will happen with IATSE.
At the time, the only thing I noticed was one of my favorite actresses from House MD participated in the strike and that the quality of the writing declined shortly after it started.
That said, I completely support the strike! The workers need it badly and the stronger the strikes, the more control the workers will have. The more control they have, the less of a disaster America will be and leave less room for those kinds of consequences! My only criticism of the earlier strike is that it wasn't strong enough to include Reality TV in its coalition.
EDIT: Welp, I was wrong! Sorry about that.
EDIT2: Some people seem to think the show took off after the strike even though it started before:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/writers-strike
http://revolutionaryoldidea.squarespace.com/roi-blogi/2020/1...
That was one of my favorite alt-history theories. Sad.