Netflix is the new Fox OTA channel. Just missing the infomercials at 3am.
Netflix’s Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here to Stay
Submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-viewership-data-foretells-bland-streaming-future/
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snekerpimp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
Motherfucker, that's what all streaming services are. The massive amounts of just absolute garbage that most of them are putting out is ridiculous. Just because a show here or there that catches your attention gets popular doesn't mean suddenly they're the epitome of highbrow entertainment.
Netflix has to churn out more and more original content (with the obvious result being a lot of it being mediocre) cause everyone and their mother decided they wanted their own streaming service, so they clawed their streaming rights away from Netflix.
That doesn't mean Netflix is a good guy, by any means, but they're hardly alone at the bottom of the barrel.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jesse… just used a recognizable brand name… next time I guess I’ll just put (insert faceless corporation here), didn’t mean to cause a conniption
SteefLem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sssshhh dont give them ideas…
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly, I might just watch them if they did. Miss those shark vacuum cleaner commercials, Ron popeil gadgets and completely bogus fitness items.
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just okay TV is here to stay
Is this news to literally anyone? Just okay TV has been a mainstay for my entire 30+ year life. How do you think shit like the masked singer, the seventh spinoff of NCIS, 18 law and orders, the voice, basically all reality TV, etc stay in the air so long? Recycled scripts, easy to make, low production costs. They don’t need a lot of viewers. They only need enough viewers to glue eyes to the product/ads. In Netflix case it’s not ads (yet…just wait), but every Mary and Jim that will watch easy to make trash just to have something on is a Mary and Jim that they can rely on to keep paying their subscription fee. The people that will consume just okay trash are the PRIMARY demographic for most content creators of all types, make no mistake.
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Whatever, I enjoyed TF out of Night Agent, Netflix make suck in a lot of ways, but not everyone is going to like the same stuff.
neocamel@lemmy.studio 11 months ago
Man I’m like an inch away from dropping Netflix. I’ve had it since it was DVDs, but the price keeps going up, and the value keeps going down.
fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Just do it, see how it feels. It’s easy to come back later when you want to.
corytheboyd@kbin.social 11 months ago
Hardly surprising, the point of building a cookie cutter is to mass produce cookies