You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards
the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming
Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!
Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?
Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–
Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!
Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–
Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*
Consumers: Yeah fuck this
Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked
Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!
Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!
Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people
Everything is wrong with people
The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think
i just relistened to the kravitz golem fight and like. i feel so bad for this man. he shows up at this lab where he knows of countless cases of robot necromancy along with 3 men who have died collectively almost 100 times and as soon as he gets there, not only does he presumably get the shit beaten out of him by giant angel della reese, but in his next attempt, all his targets are paralyzed on the floor, his first attack misses because of his performance anxiety, a cute elf boy tentacles him (and perhaps more confusingly, he likes it), said cute elf boy summons a purple bihorned unicorn with the chillest voice anyone’s ever heard, he rolls a crit on merle but gets disadvantage from a paralyzed magnus’ shield and rolls a 2, and he’s just really goddamn confused about how that even worked (’like, with physics’), and then magnus gives taako a fork that allows him to literally eat a chunk of kravitz’s body that used to be his teammate’s dismembered arm
like….no wonder all he can say after all that is “what the fuck you guys. that’s fucked up. that’s some sick shit.”
i see your death of the author and raise you: death of the fandom, for when other fans and the content they produce are so unbearably bad that you divorce yourself entirely from the fanbase except for one or two Trusted Mutuals™️
i still think an underappreciated mutual thing is when you both end up reblogging the same post from each other a couple of times because you forgot the post existed.
