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Jen Keane (Zenbuffy - she/her)Dec 28, 2023

"Why don't people want to pay for streaming anymore?" cry the companies who split streaming into 40 different services that keep increasing in cost while randomly removing content without warning, and shoving ads into our paid services.

Yup, sure is a mystery. A real head scratcher.

#streaming #streamingIsDead

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Jen Keane (Zenbuffy - she/her)Dec 28, 2023

For real though, the fact that so many companies entered the market, each with a lukewarm offering that's like 6 of the existing 9 series of a show you want, but then you have to get a new service for season 7-8, and wait to see who has 9, is fucking wild. I remember when Netflix had everything. Now it's a smorgasbord of crap, at a minimum of 20 quid each a month. What did they expect to happen?

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gigaherz

@Zenbuffy A number of years ago, when video streaming platforms were just starting to split away from netflix, someone wrote that they thought the directives were thinking of cable/satellite tv. This person speculated that their end goal was for people to go back to paying $70+ (sometimes $100+) a month like they had with cable packages. I don't think they considered even slightly how easy it is now to get sufficient entertainment out of like, YouTube, or (🤢) TikTok.