Netflix Heads for Worst Day in Two Decades as Investors Hit 'Not For Me' (reuters.com) 341
Netflix shares lost over a third of their value on Wednesday after the company reported its first drop in subscribers in a decade, leaving Wall Street questioning its growth in the face of fierce competition and post-pandemic viewer fatigue. From a report: The streaming pioneer's shares fell 37% to $220.40 and were headed for their worst day in nearly 18 years if the losses hold. More than a dozen analysts rushed to temper their views on a stock that has been a red-hot market performer in the past few years. "Netflix is a poster child for what happens to growth companies when they lose their growth," said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners in Pittsburgh. Elon Musk weighed in on Netflix's subscriber loss by responding to a Slashdot tweet, saying "the woke mind virus" is making the streaming platform "unwatchable." He added, "Can they please just make sci-fi/fantasy at least *mostly* about sci-fi/fantasy?"
Oh good elon musks has an opinion (Score:5, Insightful)
Thank goodness lord musk weighed in.
im sure it has nothign to do with the massive loss of russian accounts or people cancelling because they raised the price again and are cracking down on account sharing.
its unwatchably woke, thats the reason.
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In two completely unrelated events the ruble is being artificially propped up and will soon collapse and Marjorie Taylor Green’s campaign is deep in the red.
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Well, it was a very different meaning of conservative, but the quote was (approx.) "if you're over 40 and not conservative, you have no brain" https://quoteinvestigator.com/... [quoteinvestigator.com]
I kept my paraphrase as close to your version as possible, but folow the link to see the original.
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To be conservative no longer has a meaning in the U.S.
A conservative should for example be an environmentalist as they should want to preserve the environment to maintain the status quo.
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"If you're rich and not tweeting nonsense, you're not rich enough!"
Re:Oh good elon musks has an opinion (Score:5, Insightful)
Have you ever watched something "preachy" in your life? Of course you have. We all have. You know, with the tedious, over-the-top moralizing? Probably a lot of Christian content classifies.
But this is what "mainstream" content has become: preachy. And it turns out that people don't like "woke preachy" any more than they like "Christian preachy". It's all too cringey, repetitive, boring and, yes, unwatchable. And Netflix isn't alone; which is a reason why the value of a lot of other entertainment and news streaming services has also been falling.
Undoubtedly the economy is also a factor. In the face of inflation like this, of course a Netflix subscription would be high on the list of things people are going to cut. Russia is also a contributing factor, although it certainly doesn't cover enough lost accounts to cover the huge Q1 expectation gap. There are multiple reasons for the fall of Netflix, but -- love him or hate him -- Musk is right: content is the main reason.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like Netflix is externally yet ready to admit the real problem, which reduces the likelihood of them being able to course correct. It's hard to unaccidentally solve a problem that you won't acknowledge or seek to understand. Hopefully they're at least acknowledging the problem internally. Otherwise they're screwed.
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Thank you, this is a very apt word for the problem at hand. It's not so much that it's woke. I can disagree with woke ideas without walking out of a cinema... but this arrogance of shoving it in people's faces like they want to say, and in some cases literally do, "this is SO obvious, you must be really dumb to not be on board with it yet".
Meanwhile just about everything that ideology touches turns to toxic waste, pun intended. And then people wonder why it doesn't sell.
Frankly I'm looking for a definition/
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I think this comment nailed it. My mom (a devout Christian) likes to watch sunday televangelists and those goofy Christian movies like "Left Behind". I can't stand that moral grandstanding crap.
The same goes for the opposite end of the spectrum though. "Woke" is just the left's version of "Holy". Sinner if you're right, bigot if you're left.
There's just a lot of people in the middle who want to be left the hell alone. They wander to the right, get annoyed, then wander to the left, get annoyed, and then repeat, ad infinitum. Its what causes the political pendulum to swing.
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Woke is part of the problem. About 20% of content is now purely woke. The remaining content all has woke features, like every doctor must be black, every CEO must be a woman, every group of kids contains all races, every show has at least one gay character, men are always buffoons, women are always the wise ones, etc.
But, the root problem is that (a) there is less and less interesting content, woke or not, and (b) because of their idiot user interface that prevents you from saying "never recommend this again" you have to wade through the same sewer pipes with the same crap you rejected 100 times before, before you can find the 1% that's worth watching. At some point, it's just too much trouble.
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I love idea of how all the ranting about "wokeness" and how "I don't watch woke shit" is somehow not virtue signaling itself.
News flash: Politics is nothing but virtue signals. You do it, I do it, Musk does it, everybody running for office does it.
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The funny thing is, those yelling "bigot" the loudest are the actual bigots. Anyone that disagrees with your viewpoint is a "bigot" and irredeemable. You're showing your utter intolerance to those with differing beliefs and opinions. Those of us against wokeness are against wokeness. We don't have an utter intolerance for people, but the message. We don't hate people that differ from us. We very much disagree on the policy being pushed by the woke which does nothing more than divide people in to groups and pits those groups against each other. Wokeness does not unify or move people beyond their differences to find commonalities. It highlights differences. And worse of all, it has a totalitarian bent for enforcing group think.
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Are you for real? You're so beholden to your political leaning that you're against wokeness? Let me provide you with the actual definition.
alert to injustice in society, especially racism. "we need to stay angry, and stay woke" [google.com]
So yes, by being against wokeness you are for injustice and racism by definition. Maybe you want to rethink your position.
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>The problem with people like you always screaming WOKE is you can never provide any concrete examples of "woke"ness.
"A curriculum inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement is spreading, raising questions about the line between education and indoctrination."
https://www.theatlantic.com/id... [theatlantic.com]
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And also so oblivious about how it looks. Complaining about "wokeness" is basically just screaming "I'm a bigot and I'm angry that bigotry is no longer socially acceptable! Free speech means I should be free of consequences for my hate!"
Not a bit. I'm very much on board with racial equality, gender equality, sexual orientation equality, trans equality, etc., but wokeness today takes it to ridiculous and even counterproductive levels, denying any and all nuanced discussion. Wokeness used to be meaningful, but at this point it's shallow, performative and deeply angry at everyone and everything -- and most especially at anyone who is very progressive but not quite progressive enough.
The definition of "wokeness" from a few years ago was grea
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Who’s doing the grooming?
https://m.dailykos.com/stories... [dailykos.com]
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Not necessarily. Some people don't talk about politics, but what they do still has political effects. Basically, the silent majority.
There are a lot of people who for better or for worse feel like they're being clubbed over the head with the diversity bat in regards to modern TV programming. Many of them aren't even complaining, but they've silent stopped watching and eventually, they silently cancel their unused subscriptions. That's not virtue signaling - it's just voting with you wallet.
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It's a backwards world view when we notice that nearly every tv show now tries to insert at least one gay/lesbian cast member and at least one black cast member in every show? I could care less if there's one of any in a show, but they need to fit in to the show. Just be another character that blends in. The problem is they're being forced in and stick out to a point it's obvious they exist not as part of the story, but for ideological reasons. They don't blend in. They don't belong the way they're being portrayed. An executive at Disney talking about the (misrepresented) FL legislation even gleefully admitted such recently.
I don't care what the cast members look like or who the characters they play sleep with (especially for shows where sexual relationships have absolutely no bearing on the plot and their being inserted for one character and none of the others is completely out of place). I just want a good, cohesive plot/universe/story without taking a few minutes here and there to push politics in a way that doesn't fit. I just want to be entertained, not preached at.
I more than likely interact with gay people on a daily basis. They're just people. Their sexual orientation does not impact my life in any way nor does it change my interactions with them. The same with blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, etc. They're all just people I interact with. Their complexion and ancestries have no impact on my interactions. In real life, people are people regardless of whatever bucket woke people want to shove them in to in order to create societal rules of engagement. The sooner we get back to just treating everyone as a fellow human being, the better off everyone will be.
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I think the real issue is no one really knows what wok means.
Oh no, a show has a minority performer who is not playing a character that plays on defined stereotypes. WOK!!
OMG there is a person who cares about the environmental impact of their decisions. WOK!!
Gee look at that guy who is trying to understand someone else's differences and not prejudge them unfairly. WOK!!!
The Horror of that guy who voted for a Democrat, because the republican counterpart is objectively a Crazy Idiot who doesn't care about anything but himself. WOK!!
I am willing to bet a good 75+% of the population, has a stance or belief, or does a thing that would be considered wok, because they are just trying to do what is the right thing in general, and care about other people beyond just how to use them. Then a good portion of that 25% left behind, are just stupid and brainwashed to follow the party line from that smaller percentage who is just trying to use people.
The term Wok, was suppose to be people who were part of the Majority who were awaken or WOKed up to seeing the injustice in America and the rest of the world.
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You and I are of like mind on this. Anything that is deemed in any way socially conscious appears to be woke and it just doesn't make sense that anyone would refuse to watch things that aren't Leave it to Beaver. Their appears to be large swaths of the country but also the world that really just want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore all the problems of society usually because they are living comfortably and understandably want to continue to live comfortably.
Unfortunately ignoring a problem does
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If you dig into Leave it to Beaver, you can actually find some subtle progressive values within it highly censored and propaganda version of the Ideal America!
Eddie Haskell a personification of the White Picket Fence of the 1950's. While publicly seeming to be a proper kid to the adults, overly polite well dressed and mannered, is actually a lot of trouble behind the surface and only really known to the people in his inner circle.
As well as many of the secondary characters who are not so perfect like the C
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Woke is anyone/thing that reminds (usually straight, conservative, probably insecure) white males that there are actually other people and things just as, or possibly more, important than just them and what they care about or feel comfortable with.
[Said as an old(er) white male.]
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The reason for the negative reaction (and use of the word "woke" as a pejorative) is not simply because white people don't like being reminded of the existence and importance of other races (and/or gender identities). If that is actually ALL there was to the "woke" phenomenon, there wouldn't be such a fuss about it.
In the name of this "reminding," we get constant jabs and cheap shots, putting down whites (or specifically straight white males) as being bad simply because they are straight white males. It's
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In the name of this "reminding," we get constant jabs and cheap shots, putting down whites (or specifically straight white males) as being bad simply because they are straight white males. It's racism and sexism rolled together into one, and aimed squarely at straight white males. They, just like anyone else, know hatred when they see it, and reject it.
And then there's Fox "News", Tucker Carlson and (throw a dart at their roster) ... :-)
Male characters are replaced by female characters, and we say "now it's better!"
Often it is, or just as good, but with the potential for additional perspective and plot options. For example, I think Lucy Liu as Dr. (Joan) Watson in Elementary worked pretty well.
As if the presence of straight white males in entertainment is what makes it bad.
It's not bad, but it is limiting. People need to let go of their preconceptions. Does 007 always have to be a white male named (literally) James Bond? How about a black female named Jamie Bond? Surely "007" could apply to anyone in that po
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See, that's what I am talking about. We have loads of movies with female secret agents, which have all done well. Black widow, Hanna, Atomic Blonde, Charlie's angels, the long kiss goodnight, la femme Nikita, the list goes on and on [buzzfeed.com]. So, people already have let go of their preconceptions!. There is nothing special about a female James Bond, apart from her stealing his place in his own franchise. So, replacing him in this way doesn't actually remind anyone of anything they don't already know, it just takes away from them something they liked.
And that is a great example of why people get mad by woke themes usurping their entertainment. It doesn't need to happen. What it is trying to achieve has already been achieved. All it accomplishes is destructive of existing IP. If you really want yet another female secret agent, make up a new one instead, and nobody will get mad.
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If you can't see it or hear it, you're the problem.
You think I"m the problem, I think you're the problem -- perfect summation of USA, circa 2022.
I'm so done with all of this, it isn't even funny. It will be the death of this country, and I know tons of you will clap and cheer. That's your right.
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It's because all the un-woke people are required to watch news and talk channels dominated by heads complaing about how everything is woke. The problem vanishes if people just stop listening to Tucker Carlson and the politicians who suck up to Carlson (ie, Ted Cruz). A lot of politicians think that if they call something they don't like "woke" that it will get them votes.
As far as I can tell, "woke" means not being stuck with 1950s standards and mores, so that the politicians who actually want to go back to the bad old days of the 50s hate it. ("I have a dream that one day this nation will have minorities who know their place again, where the freedom to lynch is respected, we can put up statues to our blessed traitors, and you don't lose elections just because you're dating a 14 year old!")
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It's spelled "woke".
And I would dare say, at least in the US, part of the woke problem is that the woke culture that is trying to shove this down everyones' throats, vastly overestimates how many people want to see this, feel this way, care about this...and would rather just go on about normal life where in general these subjects rarely ever touch their lives in any manner at all.
Most of
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one that applies to pretty much anything these days
If it can be "applied to anything" then it's a completely worthless statement. You kinda give the game away with that.
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Woke Slashdot, never change
Three hit piece stories in a row (Score:2, Interesting)
More like someone is trying to hit the "FUD button" on their stock really hard. Someone have a short position that is due soon?
I agree that Netflix is slowly going the way of Blockbuster because all the good content has moved on to HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, and Hulu, but this reeks of stock manipulation.
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If you think that Slashdot has the power to affect stock prices, you are living in a fantasy world.
Musk, on the other hand ...
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Why would you assume that the point is slashdot is some giant influencer and not a small part of a large strategy? Broaden your media horizons.
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I agree - third post in a row reeks of stock manipulation.
Well, it's either a giant conspiracy, of which Slashdot is a small part, or investors think that Netflix has maxed out its potential for growth (since subscriber numbers are now falling).
Netflix still has a ridiculous market cap of $100 billion even after its shares plummeted. A correction was probably long overdue.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quot... [yahoo.com]
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âoeOnce is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the times is stock manipulationâ.
Sssssh! (Score:2)
Yeesh! The first rule of stock manipulation is don't talk about the fight club.
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Of their new content, the only thing I've seen lately that was worth watching was Travelers. I have seen some of their other efforts lately and I do agree with one thing - I don't want to be instructed, educated or preached at, I want to be entertained. If they don't fix that, they're in for a death-spiral, for sure, but with old farts l
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No interest in ever going to those other channels. I don't watch netflix as much anymore, but when I stop completely it will NOT be replaced by lesser and worse services such as those you list. If you have to subscribe to more than one streaming service then it means all of them are bad. The major reason so many people cut the cable cord was to save money, not to start subbing to everything that exists.
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Same. Netflix saw a huge boost during COVID lockdown. The end of lockdowns plus the clamp down on password sharing, and natural saturation, all lead to believe this shit just wasn't properly priced in yet. Now it's priced in; time to buy.
Hard right turn (Score:2, Offtopic)
Ever since Trump got in office, Elon has been turning more and more right. I mean, in 2016 he even claimed he was a socialist. That was back when his cars were getting tax credits and Tesla was living off getting paid for carbon offset credits. Now though, it seems he forgot all that? The right-wing used to hate Tesla and Elon Musk. I mean as recently as last year he said he didn't want Trump back.
I figure during the Trump era and afterwards, a few things things happened:
1. Elon got wealthier, and hoez like
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Ever since Trump got in office, Elon has been turning more and more right. I mean, in 2016 he even claimed he was a socialist. That was back when his cars were getting tax credits and Tesla was living off getting paid for carbon offset credits. Now though, it seems he forgot all that? The right-wing used to hate Tesla and Elon Musk. I mean as recently as last year he said he didn't want Trump back.
I figure during the Trump era and afterwards, a few things things happened:
1. Elon got wealthier, and hoez like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders started insulting him. Nobody on the left stood up to the left-wing extremists, thereby driving Elon away from the left and to the right-wing. 2. Tesla doesn't need bail-out loan or cash from carbon offset credits, nor do they need the environmentalist/global warming angle anymore because the cars are getting more mainstream. They don't need boot-up cash from left-wing anymore. 3. California treated him like shit, especially during the pandemic when they shutdown the Tesla factory instead of providing him a way to stay in operation. 4. Biden cozying up to unions, giving Ford and GM special treatment and breaks over Tesla 5. Biden/FAA putting all kinds of obstacles in the way of SpaceX making it harder for them to test Starship.
Let me add a 6. He got older and smarter. Happens to a lot of people, see the voting preference vs age demographics data.
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No, it is one of those joint Taco Bell+KFC+Pizza Hut places. Elon Musk's opinion was mentioned in the post, so it's fair game to discuss him.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's.
When I was in high school (way back in the 80s) I worked prep/morning shift at a Pizza Hut near the oceanfront with a Wendy's a few blocks North. One morning a really hungover, possibly still slightly drunk, guy walked up to the register and ordered a Single, fries and chocolate Frosty. I said, "Sir this is Pizza Hut." The guy stepped back and looked around amazed. I pointed behind me and said, "Wendy's is two blocks that way" and he stumbled off... Not really that atypical for a Saturday morning at the
Very inconsistent programming past two years. (Score:2)
I remember years when when they were practically mass-producing genius, it was intoxicating. Where did that company go?
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Did it ever exist? The "glory days" of Netflix everyone seems to remember is when they were mostly licensed content and maybe when they just started doing their own shows. Their success got a majority of the licensed content pulled as everybody hoards their own catalogs now.
I don't think their record has ever been great with original productions. I would say it's always been 50% mediocre, it's just more apparent now that it's mostly full of their own content now.
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Television has always been a vast mediocrity. To all those rushing to Disney+ because they stole all the Marvel and Star Wars, well all the recent Marvel movies are astoundingly mediocre, and anything beyond the first Star Wars were just mediocre money grabs.
What am I missing? (Score:4, Informative)
Jim Cramer & pals at it again (Score:3)
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Musk Can Go Zuck Himself (Score:2)
It's not about "woke" or whatever, so much as Netflix keeps killing off good shows after only one season. Cowboy Bebop seems to be one of the latest examples where seemingly even before the episodes dropped they had decided to kill it. And the company that popularized "binge watching" for some reason doesn't seem to like shows with lots of episodes. I mean... WTF!? Seems like you'd WANT shows with 50-100 or more episodes. The more episodes the better, so people can... you know... binge them. The nice thing
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My Datapoint / Down with Bundles (Score:2)
I was one of the people that cancelled netflix recently, after subscribing for years. For me the reasons were:
1. Not many high quality shows, compared to other streaming services.
2. User Interface annoyances.
3. Found I wasn't using it enough to justify the cost.
What I would really like is to NOT manage n-number of separate streaming all-access catalogs. I'd really like a place to go and get a show or a film a la carte. I feel like we've somehow found ourselves trapped in the whole "cable bundling" horrible
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I was one of the people that cancelled netflix recently, after subscribing for years. For me the reasons were:
1. Not many high quality shows, compared to other streaming services.
2. User Interface annoyances.
3. Found I wasn't using it enough to justify the cost.
Yeah, I just ditched it when 4k hit $21/mo. Too many other options, and only a finite amount of time to watch them.
Bah humbug ... (Score:3)
etflix Heads for Worst Day in Two Decades as Investors Hit 'Not For Me'
Markets saturate, growth cannot continue forever except maybe in the cocaine addled brains of Wall Street analysts. I'm not cancelling my Netflix sub, it's hands down the best streaming service available to me.
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Can they please just make sci-fi/fantasy at least *mostly* about sci-fi/fantasy?
Dear Musk, check out Light Novels/Manga/Anime from Japan if you want an uncomplicated story set in a weird universe.
Maybe American entertainment is not for you?
Lets us ignore the fact that the very best of the fantasy and scifi genres have social commentary in them.
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Can they please just make sci-fi/fantasy at least *mostly* about sci-fi/fantasy?
I thought the fantasy was that somehow Tesla was the most valuable car company in the world?
Netflix was priced for Amazon like growth (Score:2)
The stock price reflected the belief that Netflix would keep growing very rapidly. Amazon had other markets to tap into after books, and then electronics.
Netflix will continue to be a leader in streaming but won't expand at the rate that justifies the huge P/E ratio they have been trading at.
Back to basics (Score:5, Insightful)
Netflix got away from their core competency, which was a lot of movies (new and old, including obscure ones), a lot of TV shows (new and old) and went whole hog on reality TV nonsense, standup comedy and complete garbage. They have maybe a handful of decent new movies every year and an occasional must-see series like Better Call Saul, and that's it. Nobody wants to pay every month for maybe a dozen things a year really worth watching.
Spotify made the same mistake, getting away from their core competency of a lot of music (across genres and eras) and throwing in with niche podcasts. Instead of investing in a better recommendation algorithm and better UI, they spent $200 million on Joe Rogan. Their stock is down almost 2/3 off it's high. Favorite music can be listened over and over for a lifetime. Even if you love Joe Rogan, how many times can you listen to any of his podcasts? Are there people who put his shows on repeat? For less than the cost of a Spotify subscription, I can get YouTube Music (which has all the same music as Spotify and then some), with YouTube Premium (ad-free) thrown in.
All of these entertainment-streaming services have to learn: there's a lot of competition for our attention. If you snooze, you lose. Offer value and people will come.
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Slashdot Relevant Again! (Score:2)
I think the comments here are burying the lead- Slashdot for the first time in years is actually tangentially relevant to a news story!
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Can you do us all a favor and provide a list of woke shows? I’m sure the AARP crowd will thank you.
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Cuties
He's Expecting
White Hot
Dear White People
13th
Growing up Coy
The Mask You Live In
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I don't either, frankly. Obviously, somebody else does. If it makes them money, they should do it. If it doesn't, they should look hard at either a) fixing it, or b) replacing it with something better.
I recommend you not subscribe to Netflix. You wouldn't like their content.
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10. Elite (murder show about teens in Spain)
9. Is It Cake? (reality baking show)
8. Inventing Anna (drama about tricking rich people out of their money)
7. Married at First Sight (reality dating show)
6. Cocomelon (preschool cartoon)
5. Queen of the South (action drug crime drama)
4. Better Call Saul (crime drama spin-off from breaking bad)
3. Our Great National Parks (documentary on national parks)
2. Bridgerton ("swoonworthy" period romance drama)
1. The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On (reality dating show)
So if all you see is "woke" shows, then that says much more about how you view the world than what is actually on Netflix. Because the popular shows on Netflix are reality dating shows, gritty crime dramas, soap operas, and preschooler cartoons.
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What content was "ruined with wokeness" and not sloppy script writing, subpar acting and bad production values?
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To the first, none. "Wokeness" (whatever that means) has nothing to do with Netflix's plunge.
To the second, that is more the issue along with raising prices. It's amazing to think people don't want to pay higher prices for less value/selection.
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To the second, that is more the issue along with raising prices. It's amazing to think people don't want to pay higher prices for less value/selection.
But people will, often unknowingly.
We now pay the same price (or higher) for toilet paper that was 4.25" x 4.25" that's now 4.25" x 4.0". I have a photo of two side-by-side bottles of the exact same laundry detergent with the left being 100oz / 64 loads and the right being 94.5oz / 63 loads (in a slightly larger bottle), both at the same price. There are many examples of this sort of "stealth price increase". The problem for Netflix is it's not easy for them to hide their price increases using shenanig
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Cuties
He's Expecting
White Hot
Dear White People
13th
Growing up Coy
The Mask You Live In
And look in general how they are recasting roles in history that are not historically accurate based on race and/or sex (ie Vikings) or even just well established character
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So, a character being played by a black woman woman ruined the Witcher? Not her actual performance or the lines she was given or the production value of the show? Or if it was those things maybe that is the real the problem and not the actors ethnicity?
Also they changed Triss in response to viewer criticism in season 2, they gave you what you wanted. Maybe you're the snowflakes after all?
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So, a character being played by a black woman woman ruined the Witcher? Not her actual performance or the lines she was given or the production value of the show? Or if it was those things maybe that is the real the problem and not the actors ethnicity?
Also they changed Triss in response to viewer criticism in season 2, they gave you what you wanted. Maybe you're the snowflakes after all?
Sure. Now imagine the torches and pitchforks that'd be out if someone was race-switched the other way, for example if they made Uhura white in the Star Trek reboot. Just "cus it's a good actress and why should ethnicity matter". You'd be sore-throated from screaming "cancel". Well, the thing is that, for actual non-racists (as opposed to woketards), race-switching is just as outrageous regardless of if it's white to black, or black to white.So some people just refuse to support racist shows, like the Witche
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The line between "proper remedial action" and "being stupid" is difficult to draw, and many disagree about just where it should be drawn. If you see what many see as "proper remedial action" as just "being stupid", then it will appear that those in favor of it deserve to have their actions called a pejorative term.
FWIW, I do see many "woke" actions as stupid. They seem ineffective for the declared purpose, and at the most optimistic merely "consciousness raising". This is not exclusive to "woke" folk, ho
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When did woke become a pejorative? What exactly is wrong with giving a shit about injustice? Have you any idea how ridiculous you sound?
Personally I don't like the word woke.
From a marketing perspective it's clearly African American vernacular and a lot of white people don't like saying it for the same reason they don't like pronouncing Mexico as 'Mehico', it doesn't feel authentic and you sound like you're trying to sound black. That's why Conservatives love using it as a cudgel so much, because most ordinary people aren't that comfortable with the word.
But my bigger issue is it tends to frame the entire issue of racial equality through the lens of the African American community. You think an aboriginal in Canada wants to discuss their problems in terms of "woke"? What about a Jew in Saudi Arabia? Or a Sami in the Nordic states [wikipedia.org]?
'Woke' basically makes White Americans discriminating against African Americans as the default example for discrimination, and I think that alienates a lot of other communities who don't want to be framing their issues in terms of those two American groups.
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What is Netflix producing that is "woke?"
If you are meaning socially conscious then I don't understand why you would refuse to watch anything that would dare declare a black man equal to a white man. It doesn't make sense, its just rabid anger over a nothing burger. Much like Tucker Carlson's trailer encouraging men to tan their balls, its just designed to rile the easily riled folk and ignore the actual problems that impact testosterone like microplastics which is often considered a "woke" topic.
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It is amazing how politics has to invade every topic and every issue.
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Hey! Each editor needs to get a chance at posting the same story! Be nice..
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You are talking about notes and bonds which have a predetermined rate of return when issued, and a redemption date.
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You are talking about notes and bonds
Actually he's talking about standard bluechip stocks which do pay dividends. Yes there are plenty of stocks out there where the dividend is far more important than seeking growth.
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calling Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy.
Probably the only smart thing Reed Hastings ever said.