Are you all ready for the pirate renaissance?

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>>224037495

They're trying to many things. You can watch video podcasts for fuck sake.
Stick to what works: House of Cards, Orange is the New Black... long form TV series that you dump on Day One so people can binge watch.

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>>224027944 >>224033849

>>224027149
shouldn’t have cancelled the dark crystal.

why does netflix have all these stupid games and podcasts on the screen when i open it?

>>224027173
I miss the glory days of KickassTorrents ;_;

>>224027149
Netflix got big because it was easy to just pay 1 sub and have access to so much.

Now there's so many streaming sites it's less and less valuable to have.

Also they cancel most of their original content after 1 season or it takes 2-3 years between seasons

>netflix is finshed for the 740th time
fuck off retard

>>224027149
My gf cant afford to pay for endless black queer cripple dramas and I only pirate.

Interestingly Netflix has never declined in subscribers month to month

>>224027149
No reason to have it on for more than a month at a time

>>224027435
It's a big nothingburger

It’s interesting how a lot of tech companies have the same trajectory of “cool little company” in the 2000s to “holy fuck I want to see them crash and burn” in the 2020s

I’m a software engineer but this pretty much applies to all the FAANG companies (except Apple which was already a shitty behemoth)

>>224027539
>No reason to have it on for more than a month at a time
I just pick up a gift card at Christmas, so I can spend a month watching everything.

more like FAAAAG amirite

they're still in a better position than they were in 2023, what's the big deal?

>>224027149
As with most things it's many problems contributing to the whole. Yes lack of good original content, their 3rd party library being picked clean by every single studio deciding to run their own service, the added competition from those new streaming services, increasing prices, increasing ads, worsening economy causing people to cut their streaming services first.

>>224027499
but totally for real this time though, everyone is going to unsubscribe because..uhh..

It's almost as if people finally woke up and realized that 99.9999999% of the 100,000s of original content has made this far is absolute garbage.
netflix "studio" has the worst track record of any Hollywood studio by far.
AI slop is more innovative than anything netflix makes.

>>224027149
literal nothingburger
they'll be up 200% by this time next year
there's really nothing going on anymore is there everything has to have an article made about it the world is ending every day

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They want to compete with tiktok but failed to realize that people don't actually like that shit they're just addicted to using it. Nobody wants to pay for a slop subscription.

>>224027149
>Why is Netflix losing viewers?
for me its

poor 1080p stream quality that costs too much

they said you could share your accounts now they say you cant

they are not making kino, they make slop mostly.

>>224027882
also i canceled my account simply because it was news people were doing it and I wanted them to suffer

>>224027662
there are so many services you can pretty much bounce from one free trial to another and watch everything they have to offer before hopping to the next service.
Back in the day when cable was a thing AND HBO had its original streaming service, you could just call your cable company every few months and threaten to cancel your subscription and they'd always throw in a free month of the premium channels, which unlocked the streaming service.

>>224027371
I never watched it but I enjoyed your threads.

>>224027149
gen alpha would rather watch youtube shorts and streamers

>>224027149
Because their content library today is undeniably worse than their library was a decade ago. When subscriptions were half what they are now and the ability to find a movie or tv show you actually wanted to watch when you were reminded of it, it was a much easier sub to justify keeping around. These days as >>224027712 mentions their 3rd party offerings have been hollowed out by other studios trying their hand at running their own streaming service and now that netflix isn't the only game in town it's become abundantly clear just how weak their 1st party catalog truly is. To this day what do they have? A handful of actually good documentaries, House of Cards (the first few seasons anyway), and some CW tier productions for middle aged women who are probably getting way more out of their disney+ and apple TV subs? When push comes to shove and they've seen the flavor of the month 5/10 production that gets pushed into the high 7/10 range by social media buzz (I'm looking at you Squid Game) why would you keep your netflix sub active? They can't compete to hold down the one demo they actually have a chance with.

>>224027149
>Why is Netflix losing viewers?
it isn't, stock price isn't subscriber numbers

>>224028029
Yeah the image is retarded

Streaming is dying.

Netflix didn't used to have much competition. Now everyone has a service and instead of competition improving things it just means the same amount of content is spread out on multiple services.

Everything being woke interracial black gay and girlboss is also clearly pushed hard as an agenda by studios now so new content is worse than old content.
Even if I was any of those categories I wouldn't enjoy fake elevated levels of it where every cast includes it. It is obvious those behind the financing are mandating self destructive brainwashing.

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>>224027149
their transfaggot gay power bottom anit kino templates leaves people depressed and confused, even their NPCs are getting sick of it

>>224028091
>content
really hate how people call films and television shows content

>>224028124
That's all it is now. Slop for the trough.

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>>224028221 >>224031867

>>224027149
>gas costs a gorillian-dollars a gallon
>a dozen eggs costs a gold brick
WhY aRe PpL cAnCeLiNg WoKeFlIX???

>>224028162
>muh woke
Took you seriously until you outed yourself as Miggercattle.

>>224027149
Youtube is literally free and has alot of varied content including free movies(actually good ones too)

Netlfix has to compete with free stuff plus Disney and other competitors stepped their game up. All the good tv shows and movies are on competitions streamer while Netflix has home grown N slop that gets cancelled after 1 season

>>224027435
>>224027551

They laid off a ton of people and fired top dawgs. This one is serious and they are concerned about their future.

>>224028009
Not just the library.
I really miss their old algorithm from the DVD in the mail days, if you went through and genuinely rated things to your interest meant that if netflix recommended something with five stars you'd watch it sight unseen because if it gave you something with that confidence odds are it was going to be something you really liked.
But then they eventually got rid of it and it ended up just pushing whatever trash they were promoting.
Also it is a dogshit way to browse the available options that is just endless scrolling.

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>>224028780

>>224028221
>Miggercattle
I don't know what that means and I'm too much of a drunk faggot to look it up

>>224027149
fuck netflix, i hope they gp under for ruining eerything they touch and filling it with browns and gays

>>224027149
Streaming is a shit model. Got a never ending void for content yet almost all is it is ass and few good shows you have people just binge them in a week then it takes two years for next season

>>224028226
amazon also has free-with-ads movies and 'live' tv that just loops series.
I was laid off for a few months and just vegged out to the outer limits original series and the reboot like three times because I kept missing sand kings and then going "this isn't nearly as good as I remembered."

>>224028282
its a shame it killed the film and tv industry

>>224028282
>Streaming is a shit model.
Nah, its a great model, especially for the consumer.
The problem is when they fuck with it. A lot of the "original" content on streaming services isn't made to be good television/miniseries/movies, its just slop for the trough. You need to make sure it always looks like you have "NEW! EXCITING STUFF!" getting churned out and hoping someone signs up for a free membership and forgets to cancel before the next billing cycle.
Broadcast television had problems, but they needed to keep butts in seats between ad breaks, and the budget gets spread mostly even across each season with some being held back for the big premiers/finales/holiday specials. You'd have a bottle episode or two to save money, but you needed to keep people coming back week after week.
With streaming they just need you to watch the first four or five episodes before they know empirically that you're just going to zone out as the rest of the season plays in the background. If that is all you're doing then its mystery box bullshit that is all set up and no payoff.

>>224028375
It's currently killing itself so I guess it all evened out in the end.

>>224027149
too few good shows and movies. most everything is copy pasted and tinged with woke. only good show worth rewatching is ancient apocalypse and it seems like they canceled it in favor of slop. when i really tapped out is when they started coming out with these documentaries about michael jackson and the break dance lady with the same political agenda behind the premise.

>>224027149
>>224028029
OP you faggot

>>224027149
There is nothing to watch.

>>224027173
Already on that wave, I need another hard drive.

>>224028394
Broadcast TV doesn’t need to fill an endless void to keep people renewing their subscription. During dead periods can just play reruns of Friends or Sienfeld which are most popular shit on steaming as well.

>>224027149
Nobody wants to pay $20 for Netflix budget slop when it was $7 16 years ago and had a library that rivaled every pirate site.

>>224027149
Now that every channel has it´s own streaming service and every streaming service has introduced adds it´s worse than old cable TV. Convenience was the whole point of streaming. No adds, not going through the rental process, no need to insert dvd or blu ray, no extra costs, you typed, pressed play and bum! Now you could have 5 different services, all have adds and none have the stuff you actually want to watch. Furthermore since the competition is brutal every single service cut down on trying to make interesting original content, they just milk big ass low risk IPs.

Amazon is not better, used to have a lot of included content and now half the content is either a rental or an additional subscription. They all really kind of forgot that the business only exists because it´s slightly more convenient than piracy.

>>224028572
streaming without advertising is not sustainable

>>224027662
The only thing that sucks is feeling like you're rushing to watch stuff, it's the same with game pass on xbox

>>224027149
For me I cancelled Netflix like a decade ago after having it since the early days when they were a DVD by mail service. The biggest reason was their catalog continued shrinking and shrinking until I could barely find anything made before the 90s. I had no interest in their original programs and I already had Amazon video free with my Prime subscription which had a superior catalog of older movies. There was no reason for me to keep Netflix.

>>224028252
It's a meaningless term faggots use, similar to woke.

Any company stupid enough to produce more seasons of The Witcher deserves bankruptcy

>>224028752
its honestly infuriating to open up each streaming site and search for a movie from 30 years ago and its not on any of them, I learned to just stop wasting time and open a pirate streaming site that has everything

ai microdramas and other short form crap are the future

>>224028646
Niether is infinite growth but here we are.

>>224027149
Adding Indian garbage didn't help. At least not for anyone with an iq over 80.

>>224028801
https://wherecaniwatchthis.tv/

>>224028801
I doubt that ever happened to you.

>>224028846
People have the attention span of goldfish. This can't be a good thing.

what was their last normie hit?
the squid shit?

>>224028646
>Madison Avenue is pushing ads back on us
There was a time when cable was ad free. How long did that last? Today, you can subscribe to Paramount+ without ads FOR JUST TWO EXTRA DOLLARS per month. I doubt that will last.

>>224028951
The last season of stranger things?

>>224028974
He said hit, not shit.

>>224028982
Stranger Things was statistically the most watched thing on any streaming platform/cable/or terrestrial TV.

>>224027432
I remember actually sitting down and thinking up my top 10 Netflix originals about a year ago
>2 actually completed
>1 "completed" (canceled after 2 seasons but given a third to try to wrap it up as best they can)
>7 canceled within 2 seasons
I guess somebody had to be the Fox equivalent for streamers

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>>224027149
I stopped using Netflix when they started blocking region hopping via VPNs, around 2018 I think?
Going back to pirating was simply an easier experience

Nowadays I use Jellyfin for everything, music, shows, movies, and not paying each month for services that get progressively worse and more expensive is cozy

>>224027149
>from short form videos
They're really trying to make this happen. It's all bingbongslop soap operas that they churn out like crazy. The Tiktokification of Hollywood and movies should be resisted.

I didn't read the thread but why would you ever pay for streaming?

Buying DVDs and CDs I understand but if you're gonna stream then why not just torrent instead?

>>224029672
Na chlopski rozum: if everyone torrents, studios will all go bankrupt and they won't be able to make the content that you really want to torrent. At some point, there will be nothing to torrent.

Prices going up, selection down and a lack of new, good content. I liked Below, but it's a rare decent program.

>still paying money to (((their))) subscription services rather than using the dozens of alternative free options available

>>224029722
So what you're saying is that all existing media disappears the second studios go bankrupt?

>>224029722
Who gives a fuck. They haven't made anything I want to torrent in at least a decade.

>>224028951
>the squid shit
That was drama for people who watch reality shows. I don't know how anyone found it entertaining.

>>224028780
Woke has a meaning though and most people know it even though libs like to pretend that they don't or that it means something that it doesn't. It's simply forced or otherwise unnecessary overt, progressive talking points or themes that don't add anything to the movie/series.

>>224029788
No, I'm saying that the second big studios go bankrupt all you will have is Bollywood.

>>224029842
>They haven't made anything I want to torrent in at least a decade
And yet you to continue to torrent. Can you see a discrepancy in your own logic?

>>224029945
Why would we still have Bollywood?

>>224029983
Is this legitimately why the artistic quality has gone down? Because they do not have the budget to make things as good as they used to be?

>>224027149
Well, everything they do is terrible for starters.

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>>224030025
>Is this legitimately why the artistic quality has gone down?
lmao no. Budgets are higher than ever. Artistic quality went down the shitter because all the talented White men were forced out of the industry.

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>>224030084
In conjunction with there being a million and one productions a year. What talent that is there is spread too thin.

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Maybe they should get HR out of the room and just let the creatives make cool stuff to watch instead.

squid game

they thought they had captured the streaming audience permantly so they could purposely get lazy and enhshitiffy the product, but people are just cancelling thier subscriptions because its not worth paying for

they acted like they were the only game in town, but they got btfo of the WB merger by paramount.

>>224027149
They need big TV hits. They didnt replace stranger things. And even when they do have a modest hit they take years to make a new season

Compare it to how HBO or Amazon or even Paramount treat their biggest shows

Every year there is a new Pitt, or new Reacher, or new Sheridan.

>>224027149
they keep raising the prices and making it harder to share accounts and at the same time there are now more streaming companies so netflix has fewer shows and the ones they do have are ass.
It also doesn't help that everything is expensive and some of the things they actually went and got like WWE suck right now

Netflix is a perfect example for why human beings make no sense. I can't even count how many times Netflix has raised prices in the last 5 years. Every price increase people said they were going to quit and every time Netflix sub count and revenue per sub went up. Now people aren't quitting. They just aren't watching as much. So it shows you people bitch and bitch, but do nothing about it. Netflix stock I'm sure will go back up. One more stupid hit is all they nee to get the buzz back. Probably another Korean show.

I'd pay for netflix if it was 10 dollars and straight up just had DVD ISO rips on there of every single DVD you used to be able to order on there in those little envelopes.

>>224028801
I don't pirate so I just stick to Amazon, Tubi, my collection of DVDs and Blu Rays and the occasional purchase of a reprint of something that was out of print forever or only on VHS or unavailable for whatever reason. I don't remember exactly when Netflix tanked their catalog but I think it was around the time they started making original content with Beasts of No Nation. I was done with them soon after.

>>224030655
>Beasts of No Nation
that was the only legit kino they "made"

>>224030655
Funny thing is if you go to netflix.com without a sub, you can't even see what is in the catalog. All they have is the top 10.

>>224027149
>lack of original content
All they have nowadays is original content and it's all shit.

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>>224028162
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>>224027149
Netflix is absolute dogshit.
They chose to make background noise for moms while they vacuum instead of engaging programming.

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>>224030025
>Is this legitimately why the artistic quality has gone down?

>>224027149
Because normies watch apple shows nowadays

>>224027149
I went from just not watching Netflix to actively canceling our household subscription and encouraging others to cancel as well.

DEI bullshit content, removing episodes of my tv shows for dumbass reasons (an episode of community where Chang is cosplaying as a dark elf for example), and I Strongly suspect they were cropping out parts of TV shows one of my favorite shows moved from Netflix to Hulu and suddenly there are a lot of extra scenes I don't remember being on Netflix.

I just don't trust that company anymore.

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>>224027432
I dont give a flying fuck what anyone says, Im pissed they canceled Black Summer. It was my comfy Walking Dead replacement. I will never give Netflix another dollar until they do season 3.

>>224027371
It was too anti-semitic for a second season.

>>224028923
Happened when I went through Jodorowskys filmography. We aren't all mainstream blockbuster plebians.

>>224027149
Stranger Things ended

Well, they just fired all of the top execs in charge of content so things will probably change. Whether it's for the better remains to be seen.

crazy that I have to use a approved browser to watch 4k
I'd rather torrent that shit
fuck you

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>>224035475 >>224035605

They lost the monopoly they had on streaming around COVID when Disney+ launched fresh out the gate with Mando as a killer app and flooded their platform with dogshit around ~2018ish.
Contrary to popular belief, there was funny enough a time when "Netflix Original" meant megakino like F is for Family, the first few Voltron seasons, Stranger Things S1, Ozark, House of Cards, The Get Down, Daredevil, Little Witch, etc. From 2013-17 I'd argue there was a moment where Netflix pumped out a really impressive amount of good to great television and arguably dominated the last truly great era of TV, given it seemingly couldn't miss be it adult oriented, teen oriented, kid-oriented or foreign or domestic. Capeshit, sitcoms, prestige dramas, cartoons (both kid-oriented and adult), anime, it seemed like the service was unstoppable and all-consuming to where culturally it was one of the few touchstones that distinguished the 2010s.
It wasn't really until ~2018ish where the wheels started to fall off. Hulu revitalized itself as the place where all the Fox stuff went, so that stuff was all pulled and sent there. Then they started making really abysmal live-action anime adaptations, i.e Death Note. Not to mention the worst tendencies of California and Silicon Valley started becoming apparent as that area massively invested in the company as it grew uncontrollably. Suddenly all the shows started getting really gay and tumblry (including many I listed), a massive wave of shitty adult animation and standup specials from millennial and gen-X shitlibs proliferated, thus altering the character of the platform a lot and tainting the "Netflix Original" brand that was once both ironclad and diverse.
It didn't become a terminal problem until COVID though. Tiger King, Bird Box, and Squid Game all being insane sleeper hits that were arguably the last major TV events all covered up the fact that the studios came onto the fact that Netflix had grown greedy and became a de facto monopoly pt. 1

>>224035451
>pt. 1
there's gonna be a part 2?
nigga's building the great wall of china over here

>>224035451
Netflix Original always meant slop. You enjoy slop. Get over it.

on streaming, so they all siloed away their content on their own streaming platforms to create an awful combination of the vertically-integrated pre-1948 studio system with cable to recoup their losses from cable's death and Netflix's rise.
As a result, this made Netflix way more desperate to plug the gaps as the studios basically took all their shit and stripped the house. They started buying up everything they could get their hands on and also setting up shop for production, especially in foreign regions like mainland Europe, Korea, and India where people could produce content without oversight from governments or local streaming services and release it to a massive international marketplace. While this resulted in a lot of kino making its way to Netflix, it also flooded the platform with random shit and balkanized its appeal, while also infecting a lot of those areas with the worst American tendencies (European Netflix productions are often the worst example of this).
Not to mention Netflix also suffered a lot of PR damage from this approach of greenlighting and platforming literally everything, i.e 13 Reasons Why continuing past S1 and drifting off into tumblr insanity or the Cuties fiasco in 2020. Along with a massive deluge of seemingly endless mountain of procedurally generated crap increasingly aimed at women and boomers that's trying to compete with everyone while abjectly failing to make any efforts to constructively build IPs, this all resulted in the terminal decline of Netflix as other competitors sqaured up and soon asserted themselves, and Netflix missed its windows to compete with the studios and media companies as both a producer and distributor in the late 2010s as they failed to capitalize on theaters dying and the public being fatigued by Hollywood, only to then triple down on all the things they hated and not offer a viable alternative like it seemed they were on track to do in the mid-10s.
Now they're driftless and declining.

>>224035605
>Netflix Original always meant slop
I know for a fact that at least every anon in this thread really likes (or liked at the time) at least one of the shows I mentioned from their heyday. They absolutely put in effort back in the day because they saw themselves as having something to prove as an alternative to everyone else, which meant being the best at as many things as possible.

>>224035621
Consult >>224035605

>>224035621
>being the best at as many things as possible
the best at what? watching the office or some shit?

>>224027149
Because I'm not oaying $30 to get lectured by niggers that I'm bad because of the color of my skin.

>>224035637
>the best at what
Being the place where you could watch literally anything ever made by anyone anywhere on one platform while also producing and distributing new stuff that was at least competitve with the new stuff being offered by everyone else, regardless of genre or demographics. There was a moment where it seemed like this was going to be the case.

For me its the fucking Netflix editing style. Every original of theirs looks the same and the writing is the same too.

>why don't people want to watch our orignals that have 8 to 10 episodes per season where everything happens in the first and last episode and next season takes two years to come out

>>224035621
yeah up until like 2015 or so netflix originals had a very good reputation, even on /tv/
Back when it was only wannabe prestige shit like house of cards and marco polo

After that they started pumping out capeslop and teen dramas

>Netflix takes off because people get sick of cable companies gatekeeping everything behind additional fees and subscriptions
>Netflix starts gatekeeping everything behind additional fees and subscriptions
>

Modern streaming services are literally no different to what Cable used to be.

>>224027421
*sips Monster*
Remember Demonoid?

>>224035714
>marco polo
I remember nothing from this series apart from the fact that it had a pegging scene despite being set in the late Middle Ages

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>>224035768
I remember it came out just as SJW culture became mainstream so they completely neutered the main character for season 2 because a white guy killing chinamen and banging their wives/daughters caused so much seethe

What's that?
More KDramas?
YOU GOT IT

>>224027149
They never bought my Christian/Christian adjacent Fantasy films, that's why.

>>224027149
theres too much competition and the price isnt worth it anymore
they could alleviate this by actually making good content but almost everything netflix makes is ass

>>224035680
That was never a thing, zoom zoom. Piracy won.

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>>224035799
>More KDramas?
The funny thing is this is really one of the only things keeping them afloat among younger crowds. I'm not a /kdg/ fag at all but I stumbled upon picrel while I was watching an older relative's place and found it to be surprisingly fantastic because it's essentially a show that's the first half of FMJ set in 2010s Korea.

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zoomer gatekeepers and dog poop content

>>224027663
The proper acronym is FAGMAN
Facebook
Apple
Google
Microsoft
Amazon
Netflix

>>224027149
Thats a chart of stock price, not viewer count

>>224027149
Bring DVDs back!

>>224036427
The modern man is a FAGMAN.

All is lost.

>>224027348
GOMENASAI BRUCE LEE SAN~