The Netflix model is the true reason everything feels “mid” now.With advertising model your goal is to create a hit, if you get a truely big hit, you can basically name your price for adverts.For a streaming model, a better show doesn’t really bring in that my new subs, and you can’t charge your existing subs any more. You are much more incentivized to create “good enough” shows to make your catalogue seem full and fresh. The show makers are likewise not going to spend extra late night hours rewriting scripts, prop designers are not going to spend extra time making it look better, there really isn’t any hope it will become some billion doller show they can name thier contracts price on. They just work till they get canceled, like a 9-5. Good enough.
>>222952776Yeah, see a lot of television is like that. Except you can't control what is on tv and you didn't have unlimited budget to rent.If you really think about it, Netflix is the absolute worst of all worlds.All of the shows range from barely mediocre to shitThey all have that fuck awful "netflix" writing and propogandaThey are just a big shit bomb of shows slapped onto the air The commercials are no longer enttertaining mini shows that actually convince you it's just targeted garbage or AIWith streaming being a thing the multiple television episode and even 21 minute show and 1.5-2 hour show/movie format doesn't make any goddamned sense anymore. I'm going to be honest with you. I would much rather have a network with cultivated good programming then a bunch of absolute shit, much of it purposely and actively hostile to me as a viewer, that I wouldn't watch for free. And advertisers and people with products to sell have now soured on both streaming, streamers, and how Google has quite honestly raped and murdered the internet.No one is getting fucking paid anymore and no one is being entertained anymore either.
>>222952776Remember when we got 22 episodes a season every other year and now we're lucky to get 8 if that
>>2229530158 Episodes every 3 years and the creators act like it was a herculean task
>>222952776>>222952999this nigga samefaggin but I ain't even mad because it's quality content, like a netflix show
>>222952776that makes sense but the other side of the coin is that actual good artists dont need thw industry anymore. a lot of them are making a living independently
>>222953632dumbass me forgot pic
>>222953650Sorry anon, you screwed up again. That's obviously not the right one.
>>222952999what you want is apple
>>222953694A company that doesn't care about profit for exactly one product?
>>222953015I would much rather see low to mid budget shows done with heart on free to air or cable tv then watch a bunch of multi million dollar shows that are only half as good as shows made ten years before.
>>222952776Netflix Japan seems to be proto-HBO (original) now. A top of the pack viewership gets 2nd season, etc. But like socialist economy once almost everyone's subbed, the quality will be mid for decades. It will probably be daytime soap in gray/blue filters all the time in a few years. Almost every movie industry's peak is either saying sth they bottled up for so long (60s Soviet, 2000s SKorea, 50s-70s/90s Japan, 70s-90s Hong Kong, 80s-90s Hou Hsio-hsien), or a strong economy (pre-9/11 CA.)
>>222953803>free to air or cable tvwe have the internet now anon. why tf are people still watching legacy media if they think its bad?
Netflix's business model is a total mystery to me. How can they afford to put out this much (granted, crap, but still) content EVERY DAY?
>>222953938I dont just watch whatever slop the algo pulls up. probably because I dont really "watch" anything anymore. but sometimes I find a good channel and I remember that great storytelling isnt dead its just hard to find. when Ive found something good I indulge and when its over I go outside etc. The reason things seem shitty is because you're an addict with low standards. your standards for entertainment are low and your standards for how you spend your time are low. at least it sounds like it the way you talk about the algorithm not taking care of you
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LMAO, back in high school, normietards were hyping up Netflix like it was the second coming of Christ, and were ready to kill each other over who had a subscription. Even I was on the hype train. I barely knew shit about torrenting, so I got both Prime and Netflix just to discover that basically every fucking movie I actually wanted to watch was unavailable in my region.And what was the point? You pay for multiple subscriptions just to get access to an endless catalogue of aggressively mid slop, while the one thing you actually want is region-locked. Now I look back at that shit and genuinely wonder what the fuck these retards even pay for? The most mid tv shows in existence? Only like 1 tv show out of 20 netflix originals is like worth watching
>>222952776Our company had a contractual gig at Netflix, and it was quite amazing (back then) to see how shows were manufactured.Every part of a show was measured—what scenes people replayed, skipped, paused, etc. Those metrics would become part of the checklist whenever a new show was created. Add in the diversity requirements, the obligatory “women moment,” and the occasional stretching of an episode just to fill the runtime, and you’ve got yourself a series.You’ll notice that most shows have maybe two or three genuinely good episodes, while the rest are just filler shit.I miss the good old days when you actually looked forward to new episodes. Nowadays, I’d rather just wait for the good clips to show up on YouTube.
The psychology of consumption is part of the issue. Too much choice = choice paralysis, people can't choose what to watch because there is too much on offer. Whilst at the same time, the mainstream has all gone towards copying the same viral hits making it feel, almost paradoxically, that their is no choice. Don't like something? Just stick on something else. Your expectations are ridiculous in this system and good and bad are usually relative feelings to expectations. I am not saying Blockbuster was the pinnacle of media, but consumption wise you had a limited number of titles to choose from, limited amount of space and physically having an item made it more likely you would finish it. Giving things a chance = realistic expectations equals a better level of enjoyment overall. Sure somethings created for the physical media market were bad but I think you would still at least satch something to get your money's worth.
