I actually began this video BEFORE the gnome video. I knew there was a lot to talk about with Netflix and thought I could do the gnome video quicker (I was wrong, opps). I've essentially been dual wielding these two videos for months, going down a rabbit hole of netflix drama, Whilst also dealing with real life stuff. This is my longest video so far. Needless to say, I understand Netflix a lot more now, I hope you will too after watching this.❤ #artistruth
Have you watched the show Unreal? It's on Netflix and is like a workplace drama where the workplace is a reality tv series. Ironically, one of the main characters looks and acts quite similar to this head of global content or whatever that title was haha
I don't friggin' want a Netflix restaurant, Netflix Steam, or Netflix "experience." I want them to stop canceling every show after 1-2 seasons. It's gotten to the point where I don't even want to start new shows anymore unless they're, like, 4 seasons in or done. I know that contributes to the lack of ratings, but can you blame my lack of trust?
the other day my bf and i were wondering what happened to make 'netflix original' go from good to trashy. turns out they fired the one person who cared
I mean the decline happened very fast but people didn't notice until years later. I used to tweet about how the premise of every single show was exactly the same, even the text introducing the show was identical, like 4 years ago. Nobody cared. Now everyone is on the hate Netflix bandwagon. Rightfully so, yes, but c'mon. It was apparent years back.
@@catazoe7535 everyone once in awhile we get a Heart Stopper Aaaand it’s based on a critically acclaimed graphic novel XD ofc Oh they have a new fun pirate show! Aaaaaaand it’s based on an almost 30 year spanning anime with millions of fans
Netflix really be digging their own graves by undermining and mistreating their creative individuals, like who do you think made the shows that made you rich in the first place?
They don't think the creatives made them rich. Netflix is a "techbro" company. Their claim to fame was the proprietary recommendation algorithm and the website. They started by licencing content and view all content as inherently fungible. It's only window dressing to what's *obviously* the reason people keep coming back, the "real" cash-cow: the techbro algorithm.
I'm still SO mad they haven't added playlists to streaming services. Let me add all my favorite Halloween episodes and movies to a list and hit shuffle. Or my favorite sitcoms, Christmas stuff, etc. How is this still not a thing??? It's so obvious
and the way its HALF implemented with a ‘wishlist’ or ‘saved’ list where u can save things to ONE SINGULAR PLAYLIST!! How hard could it be to add a few more???
I've never forgiven Netflix for cancelling The Dark Crystal. The behind the scenes footage is just pure passion of practical effects and they cared so much for story. Them cancelling this show to give Big Mouth more seasons gave me more than enough reason to cancel the subscription lmao.
My sister and I were devastated when we learned about the cancellation. I loved seeing all of the practical effects in a time when CGI is almost always the go-to. It was genuinely so much fun to watch with the design of the world and the looks for the different Gelfling clans, and discussing things like who Jen and Kira's parents might be. I know there are books and comics, but I loved seeing Thra brought to the screen again.
@@najbaamerYeah Brian Froud has such a cool signsture style, this show could have gone places. I still think the Archer's sacrifice is one of my favorite moments in cinema. And that soundtrack, omg.
I loved it so much, so much love and care was put into it. All of the unique designs and everything, it captured the magic of the original so well. It’s genuinely devastating that it was canceled :c
what baffles me so much about netflix's current strategy to get money is that it makes SO much more sense to release shows the traditional way--like new episodes every thursday! because then they're able to stretch people's subscriptions through the months. but they're so focused on making shows with only 8 episodes that people can binge in ONE NIGHT ?? then cancel after the first season ???? how does that make any sense? genuinely??? i would so much rather have 3 seasons of 20 episodes of the shows i love and watch them over the span of a few years. i think we need to reject modernity and embrace tradition
the half bad cancellation devastated me. the lockwood & co cancellation pushed me over the edge and i cancelled my subscription. i will not pay for things i do not watch. there are so many times i sit down and want to watch something, but everything i've loved watching was over in 8 episodes with crazy cliffhangers and unfinished storylines. i'm just back to reading books.
Agreed. Part of the reason shows like Game of Thrones became so huge was the week gap between episodes and the buzz this generated online. You can't do that for Stranger Things because everyone is at different stages during the season and you can't discuss the individual episodes as much.
I agree on the airing schedule, I don’t understand why they release all the episodes at once. But I disagree on the longer seasons argument. Back in the days, the actors were more exclusive, when an actor was on a TV show (especially the drama shows that have long episodes but it’s also the case for sitcoms) they were only in that show for several years straight. That’s why we had 20-something episode seasons with a new season dropping every year. The actors couldn’t be in any other project (expect maybe a small indie movie). Nowadays, they refuse to do that, they like to work on several projects at the same time. That’s one of the many reasons Euphoria is on hiatus, the actors are big now and solicited a lot.
A big thing that severed my relationship with Netflix was when they instigated the "one household per account" rule. I have unsubscribed, and never looked back. And from what I saw today, good riddance
Same with us. Actually disgusted me. We’ve had this one same account since 2007. It was a slap in the face for us to be 17 years into this account and they fuck everyone over.
I bought the 4 screens plan to share with my far flung family: parents who are impossible to get gifts for because they have everything already, & my brother, so we'd have shows to talk about. I canceled when they shut that down, and never went back. Fortunately, the most recent season of the crown was trash, so no regrets.
I still buy physical media and I don't think I will ever stop. It feels good to know that if I truly love a movie, I'll be able to watch it whenever I want with no ads, no buffering, etc. I think it's so important to support physical media because seeing the way they are cancelling and removing shows from streaming services nowadays makes me believe we will have a lot of lost media in the future.
How do you suggest doing this? I bought several CDs but my computer won't play them I wanna collect cassettes bit cassette players are quite expensive how do you collect physical media especially games!! I don't play many online games so I really wanna keep the games I buy on something phisical:)
Yep my best friend mocked me a few years back for keeping my DVDs but now that things are so splintered and you need like five subscriptions to ensure you can watch all your favourite shows.. it makes sense.
Never went anywhere baby, love my external drives filled with pirated shows/movies (some of which quite literally aren't even available for legal viewing anymore)
I feel like this should be essential viewing. Great job! In India, the joke is that the Netflix India RUclips Channel is more successful than Netflix India programming.
deadass the main reason i keep Netflix is bc of their Indian content (but i'm also now realizing that i'm still mainly watching recent movie releases and older classics instead of the actual Netflix originals....... besides Guns and Gulaabs it's been pretty dry)
Piracy is alive and well. I was gonna cancel netflix after they implemented the password sharing ban. Decided to try 1m of the ad tier. Discovered you can't watch Arrested Development on that tier, a show they literally bought and made more seasons. of. Cancelled entirely and just spent an hour getting torrents of netflix shows and putting them on an HDD and hooked it up to my tv.
After they canceled Dead Boy Detectives (even tho they already commissioned and finished writing the second season, and now they own the rights and It can’t be picked up by other producers) I will never forgive Netflix NEVER going back
And the fact that literally a year before DBD there was "Lockwood and Co", a series with IDENTICAL premise (teenage ghosthunters detectives) and it had great reviews, and they cancelled it after s1 too! just beacuse. no reason. And now it happened to DBD too. Like why even do these shows if you're gonna cancel anyway?
@@kuku_rydza @Internetsuchtixd747 Ikr? Almost like Netflix has a big snake he is feeding all the new promising young show to , sacrificing them all for another season of Emily in Paris or whatever. Evil greedy and homophobic
@yanelylopez5534 MUBI is prob the one, or looking up gov funded films outside of the states, e.g. film 4 in the UK, or some good aussie stuff coming out. In the US at the moment if you like thrillers, strange darlings is getting v good reviews, in cinemas atm. Watching Mark kermode film reviews alerts me to a lot of films I would have missed too. Some great stuff out there, good luck! :)
No one will want to watch anything new soon. They have stuff like Dead Boy Detectives which is fresh, new and in their critically acclaimed sort and even as I was watching it I was so stressed they’d cancel it and so they did. Even while advertising it was brilliant. Then they say “not enough people are watching our new stuff.” How do you expect a new show to be a sensation after 8 episodes? How do you expect people to keep trying stuff when they’re pretty sure it won’t ever get finished? I swear they have all the business sense of a dead badger.
I heard somewhere that they decide what to cancel and what not to be very early on analytics, like show must be started and finished in 15 days by a lot of people. and i think quality content is more likely to have people take their time with it, unlike cheesy crap you can tune out to in the background which can be binged in a single sitting. I could be wrong i cant remember where i got this from tbh, whether it was gabi belle or council of geeks or something is most likely but it'd make sense if so
You used TWO of my tweets! So this is what success feels like. Thanks for covering this egregious decision; the more ppl know about Dead Boy Detectives, the more we can rachet up the pressure on Netflix.
What really stung about Netflix not only upping the price, but the whole main household location thing preventing you from sharing an account. They already had limits of how many screens could use it at once and then it became nope gotta be in one house too bad
That's probably because of us here in the Global South, we were sharing the same accounts with like 10 people, and virtually no one had an account they didn't share with another household or multiple friends, because it was always expensive.
when password sharing was still a thing, i shared one account with 4 people and another account with my partner. Now we have gotten rid of both accounts
@@annahappen7036 i mean it as a reference to a time period, specifically the time period preceding Netflix's crackdown on password sharing. if you are implying that password-sharing is still a thing, then it's just too much effort in my view to to do something that might be considered illegal only to still pay them.
I got rid of netflix during the pandemic, when I spent 20 minutes looking for a show to watch and the only thing that appealed to me was reruns of Star Trek: Enterprise, which I had on DVD anyway
Same! 😂 I was just scrolling and putting shows on my to-watch list that I never watched. And since you can't look at the current show list without an active membership... I've never gone back to it. No regret. :)
Yeah I realized long ago that it doesn’t make sense to me to be constantly subscribed. There’s short list of my favorite shows I keep watching over and over and Netflix doesn’t have them, so no point. I only subscribe when I want to check out specific new release, I watch it and unsubscribe
Have you seen The OA???!!!! The end of S2 that showed the premise of S3, i have no words, it would have been so original and interesting....but nooooo, canceled.
@@kristinak6092THATS WHAT I JUST COMMENTED ABOUT. thankfully fx/hulu saw Brit&Zal’s potential and developed another show they wrote! if you don’t know about it, it’s called The Murder At The End Of The World. it is a limited series so i haven’t watched the finale yet cuz i don’t want it to end lol :( but it is amazing. i’m literally rewatching the oa for almost the tenth freakin time now. netflix fucked up on that one!
My flat is right across from this cute book shop (waterstones vibes) that has a room full of second hand DVD's, so instead of netflix I just peruse there every week
The tech industry is on this weird crusade to eliminate all curation in the arts. And all that does is leave people with mountains of trash to rummage through.
Criterion Collection movies and piracy are still alive and well. There's so much great media out there, it's just not on Netflix and social media. You have to look elsewhere.
I watched Lockwood & Co. repeatedly on Netflix and I was looking forward to the season 2 announcement. Then it was cancelled and I was really unhappy, but I reasoned that was because Dead Boy Detectives was seen as too similar (I disagree, but whatever) and DBD had The Sandman connection. Now they've cancelled DBD and like, WTF???!!!
I ended up reading the entire Lockwood & Co series (and the author's other books) because Netflix sucks and cancelled it and would rather read books than watch shows that are always cancelled
My family had our Netflix account since it was discs in the mail. I was always kinda mad that we didn't get any kind of grandfathered pricing or even. acknowledgement.
I said the same thing the other day! There should be some kind of incentive for those who've been loyal subscribers since the early 00's. Funny how we would lose all sorts of household items but could always seem to find those Netflix envelopes in order to get our next batch of DVDs😅
Same! The $16 a month thing actually really makes me want to cancel but I’m not gonna lie after so many years. My algorithm is actually pretty good a lot of the time. I don’t want to teach it not to recommend love is blind again if I decide to come back
24:30 for people in the entertainment industry who have produced thousands of movies and shows, how do they not know that trying to take over the world is something only villains try to do? you NEVER hear the good guys saying they need to be the best and dominate all other options. that is the biggest red flag I've ever heard.
That’s because the execs running this kind of thing don’t actually care about media and don’t take any lessons away from movies. They don’t see past how much money something can make them and they don’t actually see movies as art with a story and themes and messages. You would think a trope as simple to understand and popular as “supervillain wants to take over the world” would be obvious to these people, but I can guarantee you they’ve barely watched anything they green light to be made or watch ANY movie with any deeper understanding other than “this is just entertainment”
Netflix did put a random choice button and I hated it. It only did popular shows not niche specific to me which is what you are looking for when you use random button
I'm a subscriber from the Red envelope days and I am absolutely infuriated that Netflix got me hooked in Dead Boy Detectives and then pulled the rug out from under me. I'm a paying customer, not a data point. Infuriating.
@@ingridmatthews6627 It’s like going to a restaurant, eat something delicious and get food poisoning, but they still get your money. They keep doing this to their costumers without consequences
I feel like a big issue is one thing that really attracted me to netflix was not the new stuff but the ability to watch older programmes whenever. Shows that I knew I liked and were like a comfort. The issue is when they create an environment like that it encourages people to rewatch and not explore new shows meaning. There are things I'm interested in but I'll think for ages do I want to dedicate myself to this new show and then go on to put something I've already watched on because I know what I'm getting. This means especially with Disney yanking all it's shows off their, BBC doing the same with Top Gear. There is less of the comfort programmes. Therefore all their new content has to throw everything at the wall, cheap and make it clear that you don't have to follow the show just please watch even a single episode of this slop. Ironically the worst things about TV.
Why are executives so hungry for live experiences? Its obviously the hardest to pull off and the most expensive... Just to draw in more speculation bucks? A coming of age moment for me was in the early 2000s when Nike bought out Converse sneakers and the quality dropped hard yet the marketing went up. That is a pattern I have seen over and over again. A creative person builds a brand and develops a good product only for them to eventually get bought out and the product quailty nosedrive as they maximize profit every way they can. I feel like the main business strategy to make money is to abuse built up good will of a brand.
never EVER getting over them cancelling i am not okay with this i will forever be angry at netflix for that😞 they cancel the best shows or give them at most like two seasons but keep the most shitty shows running for like 20 seasons its insane
Don't remind me of that damned tv show with the hideous artstyle in the same sentence as Inside Job,,,,, Inside Job I miss you Inside Job,,,, when are you coming home Brett the kids and I miss you,,,,
I think netflix overestimate that if every hit show is gonna take 2 year breaks per season, why would anyone keep paying every month in that time? To rewatch the office for the 18th time? To watch Is It Cake? Especially if they're gonna cancel every show that doesn't hit mass virality in a matter of days after being released what's the point!
Gaiman had no hand in the creative side. We wrote the characters into one comic in the 80s but it wasn’t his show. Sandman is still going and that is his show.
Aw, babe, Netflix subscription and Facebook come two for one in the aging millenial starter pack. Don't worry I'm old too just focus on and copy the style and lingo of 25 year old youtubers until it starts to feel creepy then we can have our mid life crisise.
i heard through the grapevine that the reason they cancel shows is because they get a tax writeoff before the next financial quarter if they mark an in-dev show as a writeoff, and that the reason pricing keeps going up is because the physical cost of streaming infrastructure and liscencing agreements means that there are not enough wealthy people on earth for an 8 dollar modal to be successful
It baffles me that the announcement of a show being cancelled comes out before the first season now… how do you know it will flop? Why create it in the first place then?
My friend auditioned for the Get Down because she’s a huge fan of Baz Luhrmann. She didn’t get season 1 but was encouraged by the producers to go for season 2. Obviously we know what happened… 😔 she eventually did get a lead part (Pretty Smart) but that ended after one season. At this point, I’m surprised the comedians haven’t taken shots at how frequently they’ve canceled shows before their potentials can be realized.
I heard about this video from the #saveDeadBoyDetectives fandom (so thank you for highlighting the show, specifically). After watching your video in its entirety, I'm kind of left stunned. I've been a Netflix subscriber since they mailed physical DVDs out. Over the past few years, especially, I've been increasingly frustrated with the streaming service, but couldn't pinpoint why (aside from price increase and cancelled beloved shows-ie Dead Boy Detectives, the most recent victim). Your highlighting of Cindy Holland's leaving, and the shift to quantity over quality, and the stupid games and eateries and whatever the hell their knockoff amusement park experiences are, were all incredibly eye opening. I assumed Netflix was still recovering from the pandemic and the writers strike. I had no idea how much of this was a mess of their own making. Looking at DBD, specifically, I had wondered why they fought so hard for rights to the show (they bought it from Max after 6 of the 8 shows were already filmed) only to give it the odd release date and nearly zero promotion. Furthermore, I couldn't figure out why they canceled the show nearly 5 months after it aired, at a time when it's numbers were actually quite high, but they only looked at the first 2 months of streaming to justify their decision. It all points to a much deeper dysfunction. Which makes sense. They are *incredibly* dysfunctional. And it's not sustainable for them. After watching your video, I kind of feel the streaming conglomerate is a sinking ship, and they're the ones that drove it right into the capitalistic iceberg. And yeah. I miss my DVDs. I've started buying physical media again. I'm going to dream with you, that a new streaming service will appear that is more like what Netflix was back in their brief heyday. Maybe Cindy Holland can be in charge.
The way companies are obsessed with nonstop, non capped growth goals is crazy to me. Yes, it's important to have goals, but to expect insane year over year profit forever until the end of time... how ??
So spot on with that definition of the word content. The natural conclusion to the metaphore is the pig's swillification of it all. We don't have to like it as long as we keep lapping it up. And we do!
It’s insane how Netflix doesn’t let a show cook. They want an instant fan base but that’s not how this works 😂 although even when a show is popular they still drop it or take five years to make a season two!? For example blue eye samurai, why is the next season 3 years later and 2 hours shorter than the first season? Or Lockwood and co, a well acted show with a great story and BOOM, dropped. No one is going to stick with you if you can’t stick with ANYTHING we come to love.
I first heard of Stranger Things on the school bus on the way home. To this day I try to maintain that word of mouth feel for any movies or shows I watch by not viewing any trailers beforehand.
This is how I watch shows and movies, but that's also why I thought baby reindeer was a comedy and watched it when I was high as a kite and wanting to cheer myself up after a rough week. Yeah... I'll ask more questions about the things people recommend to me in the future
@@miminaomi-jg8ey I have a similar story. I saw half a trailer of Midsommar and thought it was a comedic thriller, so I went to go see it with my aunt (as a teenager myself mind you). Needless to say, that was a veeeery uncomfortable theater experience lmao.
Yup. I can no longer watch Netflix on my phone because I refuse to change how much I pay and I live in a different country to where I pay the bill 💀 also the speed button has been removed at my plan level too so have to use a widget on goggle chrome 💀 not looking good. Just ruining themselves.
1:21 stranger things came out 2016. Most everyone had Netflix by then?? But it was before you had to have 5+ streaming services just to watch 3 tv shows.
Real, back in the day bookstores used to sell dvds but now i can only find a limited selection at walmart (ik if i really want to i can just order dvds but i like the experience of perusing them in-store)
I would argue that Cindy was more of an artist because of her ability to curate quality content. Bela strikes me more as an executive concerned with eternal growth. Interesting for her to wear something like “art is truth.” She could turn it around, but I also understand the pressure to change things up always. I only say this as a person who would like to see them succeed.
Biggest thing i hate about netflix and why i dont use it anymore is the terrible interface and their misuse of the categories section. I got so sick of scrolling through categories and seeing the same 10 shitty adam sandler movies pop up at the top. If netflix wants eyeballs on an original movie, instead of making it good and hoping it will get spread through word of mouth, they'll just brand it as a drama, comedy, action, thriller, suspense, and romance, put it at the top of all of those categories, and hope it will get chosen out of apathy rather than genuine interest.
thanks so much for speaking on this. i'm the sole music composer of one of their interactive programs, Battle Kitty, which is going through the very pipeline you described: one very underpromoted season, cliffhanger, no renewal, then followed by deplatforming (Dec '24). our whole team, myself included feel lucky it came out at all as it was a project enabled by their promising new animation division, which got dismantled as soon as the management got shaken up during the pandemic. lol and of course, the news of the deplatforming was broken to me through social media a couple weeks ago. I still don't have a line of communication open for the future of the soundtrack release they managed, and this is anything but exceptional. really awful to see them continue down this path
HOT TAKE !!!! okay so i also thought insatiable sounded horrific UNTIL I watched olivia kathryn’s video “in defense of insatiable” and then i ended up watching both seasons of the show. is it the best show ever made? no it’s incredibly corny and has riverdale vibes. but it’s intentionally campy because it’s about beauty pageants. the point of the show wasn’t “fat bad, skinny good!” it was about a girl with binge eating disorder who struggles with it even once she’s skinny. it shows 1) how society is obsessed with thinness and 2) that just because you’re skinny doesn’t mean all your problems go away. it’s emphasized in the show that patty kinda becomes a terrible person despite becoming conventionally attractive girl. idk again it wasn’t a fantastic groundbreaking show, but it was different than how everyone assumed it would be.
That kinda just sounds like they’re doing “fat=good person, skinny=bitch” which isn’t much better. Like as a fat adult that was a fat kid, neither of those extremes helped me deal with bullying or self image at all
@@chelscarathat's not what they did at all, Patty is a bad person from the start, no matter her weight. But when she becomes conventionally pretty she gains social power that enables her to commit worse and worse acts.
@@chelscara i don’t think the show was that black and white, but i agree that equating morality with ANY weight isn’t helpful!! idk i might have done a terrible job summarizing the show🥲 olivia kathryn’s video is way more detailed
23:50 arcane and blue eye samurai, vinland saga, cowboy bebop, cyberpunk edgerunners, MAYBE castlevania, mob psycho 100 oh and SCAVENGERS REIGN if you havnt seen it its good, too bad hbo canceled it, Narcos
Also I’d like to say that while these shows are amazing, none of them are Netflix originals and a lot of the times they get lost is the sea of shit Netflix wastes its money on :,\ so a lot of people haven’t seen them which created an illusion that nobody wants to watch these
forever mourning the loss of the society, i am not okay with this, and most recently dead boy detectives. all interesting shows with explicitly queer characters and some incredible actors, all cancelled so we could get five fucking seasons of stranger things (which is now just action slop thats gotten progressively worse with each season) and a shitty live action avatar the last airbender remake already slated for a second season. there are some true gems hidden within the broader "netflix originals" space, but so many aren't given a real chance to succeed and its devastating. i can't imaging how soul crushing it is to be a creative in that space right now. if youre not perceived as profitable enough, youre on the chopping block.
Another video you hit for 6. Keep em coming, my man. Love your stuff (although don't burn yourself out). And yeah, early 2010s netflix was a golden age.
WOW i can't believe you included Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down as one of the early Netflix originals that was cancelled too soon! That cancellation truly devastated me, I still believe that show was the best thing Netflix ever made.
honestly, the way people got pissed about cancellations of their fave series, netflix learned their lesson.... by introducing limited series-- so people can't get pissed. also whats up with Netflix doing live shows now. doesn't that like... defeat the whole point?
i REFUSE to keep buying streaming access to my favorite films that I watch for nostalgia + comfort. That’s why I still have some DVDs from 2001 😂 I haven’t had a Netflix subscription since 2016. Looks like I haven’t missed much 😅
@@themischief420 Santa Clarita diet was SO GOOD like omg what a great idea for the tired zombie trope especially after the walking dead and the cast was phenomenal! who in their right mind cancelled a drew barrymore show like ????
Loved the video and the points you were making overall! But it sucks when people attack woman about their voice (15:29). It cheapens your overall criticism of her. Having heard this “criticism” so much in my life, it makes it harder as a woman to speak up because in the back of my head I’m worried that people are only judging the way I speak and not listening to words im saying :(
I usually agree with arguments like this because I think many women are unfairly mocked for the way they speak, even though their speech isn’t inherently less intellectual than those who don’t use similar vernacular. However, in this case, we're talking about a woman who works in TV and as a creative, and she described one of her projects as "great" more than three times. That’s absurd. If you’re a creative and discussing something you're passionate about, and the only word you can use is "great," I think it’s fair for people to criticize that. The criticism of how she speaks isn't because she's a woman-it’s because she shows so little passion about art. It’s clear she’s in it for profit, or as she repeatedly mentioned, for "growth." He compared her to Trisha Paytas because she sounds a bit like her. Trisha Paytas isn’t someone I’d want to hear passionately and intellectually break down a piece of art-not because I doubt her intelligence, but because, in my opinion, that’s not her area of expertise. This isn't about mocking someone for being a woman, or even just about her vocal fry, it's the whole package- the tiktok accent, the referring to art as "content," and the very clear desire for "growth" and not for actual good art. She sounds like a female tiktok influencer reviewing a make-up product because she's getting paid for it, not because she likes it, and she can only think of a few words to describe the product, because she couldn't care less about the actual product. He also seems to poke fun of the way pretty much every person he discusses speaks
Thank you- I live in California and that accent he's talking about is the valley girl accent that has always always always been made fun of. It really cheapens & colors the video imo. He uses it to make her sound more stupid than she is- he's not mocking her words, he's mocking her accent. And it's really disheartening he'd attack her natural voice like that. Like c'mon man.
My younger sister found three Netflix dvds when she moved out of our parents’ house. She sent Netflix an email asking how to return them and the email they sent back was essentially a really professional, “lmao what? they’re yours now. Enjoy those three Barbie movies you rented when you were 8.”
they HAD a random choice button!! and it let you click though different shows a few minutes in. it was like flipping channels. you'd find something good and get sucked in. it was great, then they got RID of it!!
i swear i imagined that feature everytime i tell someone about it and no one knows what im talking about, thank you for confirming that it was a real thing hahaha
You missed the point completely, Netflix downfall started when they removed user and IMDb ratings. That allowed them to create and publish original bad quality content without immediate repercussions. Then like tech, it started syphoning money. Stranger things was deep in the downfall. You're focusing on the few shows deep into "The shittfication". The reason they standout is because the majority of original content was sooooooo horrible.
Interesting point. I actually have a hard time to remember what the "content" of Stranger-Things-Netflix-era looked like... So, would you say that in regards to the amount of good vs. bad original Netflix content there wasn't much of a decline?
i didn't watch s1 of stranger things right when it came out, probably took a few months. i remember it in so much detail. i was 13, staying over with 2 of my best friends. we stayed up all night watching the whole thing, and we went to bed around 4 or 5am. i woke up the next morning on a deflated air mattress, we all went over to my house and i made us iced lattes, and we sat on pool floats in the middle of my pool scaring each other talking about the demogorgon coming out of my pool drain to get us. it's such a core memory to me, and now my family doesn't even use Netflix bc there's never good movies and the original content is all so bad. rip netflix
100% agree. I hardly watch it anymore. They keep suggesting things I’ve watched. A whole line of shows I’ve watched over the years. They’re suggested shows are cancelled shows-Deadboy Detectives just showed up. I’m ready to cancel after almost 20 years because they have nothing for me anymore. And one good show a year isn’t worth it.
Netflix was good before streaming. When you ordered a DVD and got it in the mail. Then you returned it and got the next one….prevented the binging on shows and brain rot. Entertainment is too easy and low quality now. Maybe those things go together
For story building wise, I think they should have a pre planned number of seasons and back the project all the way through. It'd help viewers, creators and netflix's reputation. We dont need shows that never end, we need shows that tell full stories.
the auto-play has made me less likely to open netflix. i’m going to ask my partner if we can cancel the subscription and spend that yearly $200 on DVDs instead
Netflix games, restaurants etc. and the pricing are just so silly 😭 Their business decisions literally feel like Nathan Fielder infiltrated their ranks or something (the "Algorythm" typo and the 51:21 French jumpscare really elevate the video)
Not sure which other countries have had this rolled out also, but in Australia we now have "netflix households" ie. You can only share an account with people on the same wifi IP address as the main account holder. For the first couple months it only seemed to apply to netflix on TVs or consoles, but now i cant even use netflix on my PHONE because its not in the same household as my sister (whose account it is). Theres a button that says "im travelling" which sends her a text code and i put it in, but it only lasts 2 weeks and if you try do it again after time's up, the travelling option just disappears and there's a button to create your own account/subscription. The only way to get around it is to go to her house once a month, connect to her wifi, and open the netflix app. She used to pay for 4 screens (which i think was 25.99aud a month which is crazy in itself) for herself, me, my brother, my parents, but now shes downgraded it to 1 because what's the point. If youre paying for multiple screens how is it their business where those screens are. Fuck Netflix
What best encapsulates netflixs current reputation are the comments on any of their posts: people begging for their favourite cancelled shows to be brought back!!!
1:01 Referring to Netflix in 2014 as "back before" it was a universal giant is missing the mark by almost a decade. Netflix KILLED Blockbuster by 2010, it was already a household name by that point. Netflix introduced Americans to the concept of streaming, and were the ONLY subscription streaming platform available for a number if years. 2014 wasn't the beginning of the Netflix supremacy era, 2014 was smack in the middle of it.
@relwalretep You don't get to show up late to a market Netflix had already conquered and pretend it didn't count until you got in. Sorry, the rest of y'all didn't matter, Netflix was the only legal online movie streaming service on the planet and had put the video rental market in its grave by the turn of the decade. 2014 is when you finally caught up.
Losing Lockwood and co is more of a tragedy. It had joe Cornish at the helm as well as Complete fiction. DBD was a comic before the book, but if you compare the shows you can tell dbd ripped a lot of design and shot elements.
Gutted about Dead Boy Detectives. It's so well acted, written, and heartfelt. Magical too. Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should give it a watch! #SaveDeadBoyDetectives
The thing that upsets me with Dead Boy Detectives is they figured it would do well and already wrote up the whole script for s2, like the script is just sitting in a box somewhere in Netflix Hell. Plus it already went through production hell since it was supposed to be a Doom Patrol spin off.
We've returned to buying traditional, physical media. Bought a DVD player at an auction, and buy DVDs at thrift stores. Ended up with so many that we had to buy a shelf for them! My fiance's parents pay for Netflix and we used password sharing for it but once they started that whole "your ip address isn't the home address you can't use this acct" we rejected that shit. Not paying $15 for something we can get at home.
yup!! the best thing is that DVDs and blu rays are so cheap secondhand at the moment! somehow browsing a shelf at the thrift store is LESS overwhelming than netflix...
I was devastated when i was waiting for Sens8's 2nd season and the news broke out that it got cancelled and got a measly like film length special instead when people were rightfully pissed
I'll never forgive Netflix for cancelling everything I ever watched there, specially my beloved Warrior Nun, i miss my silly ninja nuns so bad 😭 The streaming model is horrible and inefficient, i hate how short seasons are, I hate how long it takes to produce them, I hate nothing is guaranteed to have more than 1 season, and i hate how franchises are just in pieces distributed in different streaming services. The other day I was trying to watch the Resident Evil movies but each streaming only had available like 2 out of the 6 movies at random, it was so frustrating, so i solved the problem by just buying all the dvds now I can rewatch them to my heart's desire 😁
I actually began this video BEFORE the gnome video. I knew there was a lot to talk about with Netflix and thought I could do the gnome video quicker (I was wrong, opps). I've essentially been dual wielding these two videos for months, going down a rabbit hole of netflix drama, Whilst also dealing with real life stuff.
This is my longest video so far. Needless to say, I understand Netflix a lot more now, I hope you will too after watching this.❤
#artistruth
unrelated, but ur sweater vest is sooo cute
Have you watched the show Unreal? It's on Netflix and is like a workplace drama where the workplace is a reality tv series. Ironically, one of the main characters looks and acts quite similar to this head of global content or whatever that title was haha
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. Hilariously relatable.
Omg you've experienced your twink death with that new beard of yours you know, you literally predicted this in your Timothy chalamete vid woah /j
You were a huge Netflix booster like every normie
I don't friggin' want a Netflix restaurant, Netflix Steam, or Netflix "experience." I want them to stop canceling every show after 1-2 seasons. It's gotten to the point where I don't even want to start new shows anymore unless they're, like, 4 seasons in or done. I know that contributes to the lack of ratings, but can you blame my lack of trust?
they can't even do the thing they were meant to do well and now they wanna push garbage people never asked for. great business strategy.
thats what i do, and also only subscribe a month or 2 a year cause most of the films i can buy on dvd or its on normal tv anyway
WDYM YOU DONT WANT 20 MORE SEASONS OF BIG MOUTH??!
I understand their experience are shit.
Sameeee! I'm done starting any new show because it's a waste of time.
the other day my bf and i were wondering what happened to make 'netflix original' go from good to trashy. turns out they fired the one person who cared
Honestly, I kinda just wonder where Cindy is now.
I mean the decline happened very fast but people didn't notice until years later. I used to tweet about how the premise of every single show was exactly the same, even the text introducing the show was identical, like 4 years ago. Nobody cared. Now everyone is on the hate Netflix bandwagon. Rightfully so, yes, but c'mon. It was apparent years back.
@@twistedelegance_yeah, for me the decline began around 2018 when they started to pop out a million trashy teen romcoms a year
@@catazoe7535 everyone once in awhile we get a Heart Stopper
Aaaand it’s based on a critically acclaimed graphic novel XD ofc
Oh they have a new fun pirate show!
Aaaaaaand it’s based on an almost 30 year spanning anime with millions of fans
@@twistedelegance_same for me but for Google search
Netflix really be digging their own graves by undermining and mistreating their creative individuals, like who do you think made the shows that made you rich in the first place?
You think they would have heard at least one of the dozens of stories that came out from Buzzfeed about this…
Every boardroom of every media company: "we want to ruin the thing youre making"
Every hog in the internet: "it bad because woke"
They don't think the creatives made them rich.
Netflix is a "techbro" company. Their claim to fame was the proprietary recommendation algorithm and the website.
They started by licencing content and view all content as inherently fungible. It's only window dressing to what's *obviously* the reason people keep coming back, the "real" cash-cow: the techbro algorithm.
I'm still SO mad they haven't added playlists to streaming services. Let me add all my favorite Halloween episodes and movies to a list and hit shuffle. Or my favorite sitcoms, Christmas stuff, etc. How is this still not a thing??? It's so obvious
THANK YOUUUUUU I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS!!!!!
@@saoirse237 no no thank YOU because no one ever supports me on this!!
I've been saying this too! It'd be great to have that during a party so I don't have to worry about what's on tv
and the way its HALF implemented with a ‘wishlist’ or ‘saved’ list where u can save things to ONE SINGULAR PLAYLIST!! How hard could it be to add a few more???
It would be more obvious when they delete shows maybe?
I love that squid game was all about how capitalism is bad and consumerism and Netflix went “ahh yes let’s replicate the terrible rich people games”
AND A NEXT SEASON IS COMING IN 2 MONTHS
That's what capitalism does though. It devours radicalism and uses it for its own means.
@@beepboop2842you’ll never guess what happened
I've never forgiven Netflix for cancelling The Dark Crystal. The behind the scenes footage is just pure passion of practical effects and they cared so much for story. Them cancelling this show to give Big Mouth more seasons gave me more than enough reason to cancel the subscription lmao.
My sister and I were devastated when we learned about the cancellation. I loved seeing all of the practical effects in a time when CGI is almost always the go-to. It was genuinely so much fun to watch with the design of the world and the looks for the different Gelfling clans, and discussing things like who Jen and Kira's parents might be. I know there are books and comics, but I loved seeing Thra brought to the screen again.
@@najbaamerYeah Brian Froud has such a cool signsture style, this show could have gone places. I still think the Archer's sacrifice is one of my favorite moments in cinema. And that soundtrack, omg.
SAAAAAAMMMEEEE
The cancellation of age of resistance is my villain origin story
I loved it so much, so much love and care was put into it. All of the unique designs and everything, it captured the magic of the original so well. It’s genuinely devastating that it was canceled :c
what baffles me so much about netflix's current strategy to get money is that it makes SO much more sense to release shows the traditional way--like new episodes every thursday! because then they're able to stretch people's subscriptions through the months. but they're so focused on making shows with only 8 episodes that people can binge in ONE NIGHT ?? then cancel after the first season ???? how does that make any sense? genuinely??? i would so much rather have 3 seasons of 20 episodes of the shows i love and watch them over the span of a few years. i think we need to reject modernity and embrace tradition
the half bad cancellation devastated me. the lockwood & co cancellation pushed me over the edge and i cancelled my subscription. i will not pay for things i do not watch. there are so many times i sit down and want to watch something, but everything i've loved watching was over in 8 episodes with crazy cliffhangers and unfinished storylines. i'm just back to reading books.
Lockwood and Co!!!!! For me it was the unprecedented cancellation of Glow. Who does that? Never forgive.
Agreed. Part of the reason shows like Game of Thrones became so huge was the week gap between episodes and the buzz this generated online.
You can't do that for Stranger Things because everyone is at different stages during the season and you can't discuss the individual episodes as much.
sweetheart traditional tv costed $120 a month with ads every 30 seconds. That's why they could afford second seasons for non hits
I agree on the airing schedule, I don’t understand why they release all the episodes at once. But I disagree on the longer seasons argument. Back in the days, the actors were more exclusive, when an actor was on a TV show (especially the drama shows that have long episodes but it’s also the case for sitcoms) they were only in that show for several years straight. That’s why we had 20-something episode seasons with a new season dropping every year. The actors couldn’t be in any other project (expect maybe a small indie movie). Nowadays, they refuse to do that, they like to work on several projects at the same time. That’s one of the many reasons Euphoria is on hiatus, the actors are big now and solicited a lot.
A big thing that severed my relationship with Netflix was when they instigated the "one household per account" rule. I have unsubscribed, and never looked back. And from what I saw today, good riddance
Same with us. Actually disgusted me. We’ve had this one same account since 2007. It was a slap in the face for us to be 17 years into this account and they fuck everyone over.
I bought the 4 screens plan to share with my far flung family: parents who are impossible to get gifts for because they have everything already, & my brother, so we'd have shows to talk about. I canceled when they shut that down, and never went back. Fortunately, the most recent season of the crown was trash, so no regrets.
yeah my parents are divorced so i can’t use my dads account easily…so i just stopped using netflix at all
I still buy physical media and I don't think I will ever stop. It feels good to know that if I truly love a movie, I'll be able to watch it whenever I want with no ads, no buffering, etc. I think it's so important to support physical media because seeing the way they are cancelling and removing shows from streaming services nowadays makes me believe we will have a lot of lost media in the future.
i like your pfp
Started buying Blu-ray disks again last year. This is the way
Damn that would be sad
How do you suggest doing this? I bought several CDs but my computer won't play them I wanna collect cassettes bit cassette players are quite expensive how do you collect physical media especially games!! I don't play many online games so I really wanna keep the games I buy on something phisical:)
Yep my best friend mocked me a few years back for keeping my DVDs but now that things are so splintered and you need like five subscriptions to ensure you can watch all your favourite shows.. it makes sense.
I got rid of netflix when they introduced ads on their lowest tier subscription... so infuriating
Ikr? Paying $11 a month for ads (exactly like cable which is what they replaced for many people)is crazy work
they WHAT
Imagine telling a Victorian child about the Netflix button on the tv remote
Or even just explaining television in general lmaoo
i feel like the loud sound of netflix opening would send them into a coma
This video would do that
I did. You just watched his video. I don't know why he's replying to comments though get back up t'chimney Jeremy Fisher!
"Please sir, can I have some more?" YEAH... Just push skip intro ffs.
we need to bring back pirating
Or Cindy
Never went anywhere baby, love my external drives filled with pirated shows/movies (some of which quite literally aren't even available for legal viewing anymore)
it never left lol plenty of free streaming websites
it never left, I don't know where you've been.
YES
I feel like this should be essential viewing. Great job! In India, the joke is that the Netflix India RUclips Channel is more successful than Netflix India programming.
I mean, the Indian Breaking Bad video is peak cinema
deadass the main reason i keep Netflix is bc of their Indian content (but i'm also now realizing that i'm still mainly watching recent movie releases and older classics instead of the actual Netflix originals....... besides Guns and Gulaabs it's been pretty dry)
india does love free stuff
@@theyamiusagi we only have tv serial and saas bahu 😂
Piracy is alive and well. I was gonna cancel netflix after they implemented the password sharing ban. Decided to try 1m of the ad tier. Discovered you can't watch Arrested Development on that tier, a show they literally bought and made more seasons. of. Cancelled entirely and just spent an hour getting torrents of netflix shows and putting them on an HDD and hooked it up to my tv.
After they canceled Dead Boy Detectives (even tho they already commissioned and finished writing the second season, and now they own the rights and It can’t be picked up by other producers) I will never forgive Netflix NEVER going back
What!!!!! Nooooooooo! Why did I just find that out. How dare they after they burned my ship and murdered my girl. Diabolical.
@@internetsuchtixd747 They keep sacrificing good artsy baby shows to their huge snake of corporate greed
And the fact that literally a year before DBD there was "Lockwood and Co", a series with IDENTICAL premise (teenage ghosthunters detectives) and it had great reviews, and they cancelled it after s1 too! just beacuse. no reason. And now it happened to DBD too. Like why even do these shows if you're gonna cancel anyway?
@@kuku_rydza @Internetsuchtixd747 Ikr? Almost like Netflix has a big snake he is feeding all the new promising young show to , sacrificing them all for another season of Emily in Paris or whatever. Evil greedy and homophobic
They did the same thing to Shadow and Bone s3. Jerks.
Support indie cinema! There’s so many of us that netflix doesn’t even answer our emails and we’re selling out theaters across the states
I would love some recommendations or even platforms where I could find some :))
@yanelylopez5534 MUBI is prob the one, or looking up gov funded films outside of the states, e.g. film 4 in the UK, or some good aussie stuff coming out. In the US at the moment if you like thrillers, strange darlings is getting v good reviews, in cinemas atm. Watching Mark kermode film reviews alerts me to a lot of films I would have missed too. Some great stuff out there, good luck! :)
Mubi is one of the good ones and likewise
@@hiim4212 that’s what I hear
@@hiim4212 +1 for Mubi. Lots of great stuff there.
No one will want to watch anything new soon. They have stuff like Dead Boy Detectives which is fresh, new and in their critically acclaimed sort and even as I was watching it I was so stressed they’d cancel it and so they did. Even while advertising it was brilliant. Then they say “not enough people are watching our new stuff.”
How do you expect a new show to be a sensation after 8 episodes? How do you expect people to keep trying stuff when they’re pretty sure it won’t ever get finished? I swear they have all the business sense of a dead badger.
the money didn't come in quick enough 😤
So why do they continue big mouth, cuz there's no way anybody is watching that
I heard somewhere that they decide what to cancel and what not to be very early on analytics, like show must be started and finished in 15 days by a lot of people. and i think quality content is more likely to have people take their time with it, unlike cheesy crap you can tune out to in the background which can be binged in a single sitting. I could be wrong i cant remember where i got this from tbh, whether it was gabi belle or council of geeks or something is most likely but it'd make sense if so
@@RED-my9hlBig mouth is a passion project of Nick Kroll who turns out to be mega rich, sooo. . .
You used TWO of my tweets! So this is what success feels like. Thanks for covering this egregious decision; the more ppl know about Dead Boy Detectives, the more we can rachet up the pressure on Netflix.
ugh yes dead boy detectives was so good :(
What really stung about Netflix not only upping the price, but the whole main household location thing preventing you from sharing an account. They already had limits of how many screens could use it at once and then it became nope gotta be in one house too bad
That's probably because of us here in the Global South, we were sharing the same accounts with like 10 people, and virtually no one had an account they didn't share with another household or multiple friends, because it was always expensive.
when password sharing was still a thing, i shared one account with 4 people and another account with my partner. Now we have gotten rid of both accounts
if u chromecast it from your phone you can lol i share w my parents in 2 countries! that netflix button on my remote is dusty as hell tho lmao
@Desimere what do you mean "When"?😂
@@annahappen7036 i mean it as a reference to a time period, specifically the time period preceding Netflix's crackdown on password sharing.
if you are implying that password-sharing is still a thing, then it's just too much effort in my view to to do something that might be considered illegal only to still pay them.
I got rid of netflix during the pandemic, when I spent 20 minutes looking for a show to watch and the only thing that appealed to me was reruns of Star Trek: Enterprise, which I had on DVD anyway
Me too.
I have recently opened a new Netflix. But that's exactly what made me stop watching it.
Same! 😂 I was just scrolling and putting shows on my to-watch list that I never watched. And since you can't look at the current show list without an active membership... I've never gone back to it. No regret. :)
Once Arcane season 2 ends I’m probably cancelling mine, that’s the only thing I’m holding to cause I know is gonna be good.
Pretty much 95% of my Netflix viewing is ST: TNG, DS9 and TOS. If these shows cease to be available, I would cancel.
Yeah I realized long ago that it doesn’t make sense to me to be constantly subscribed. There’s short list of my favorite shows I keep watching over and over and Netflix doesn’t have them, so no point. I only subscribe when I want to check out specific new release, I watch it and unsubscribe
I'm still salty about Mindhunter.
Netflix did not cancel though, Fincher did not want to return 🙁
Have you seen The OA???!!!! The end of S2 that showed the premise of S3, i have no words, it would have been so original and interesting....but nooooo, canceled.
@@kristinak6092THATS WHAT I JUST COMMENTED ABOUT. thankfully fx/hulu saw Brit&Zal’s potential and developed another show they wrote! if you don’t know about it, it’s called The Murder At The End Of The World. it is a limited series so i haven’t watched the finale yet cuz i don’t want it to end lol :( but it is amazing. i’m literally rewatching the oa for almost the tenth freakin time now. netflix fucked up on that one!
Inside Job and 1899 too :(
Mind hunter wasn't canceled
The true anguish is inside job
Anne with an E cancellation actually gutted me and I’ve never felt the same about Netflix
At least we got 3 seasons i guess, but it still hurts to this day. Lockwood & Co. however, it pains me deeply.
Noooo don't remind me 😢
My flat is right across from this cute book shop (waterstones vibes) that has a room full of second hand DVD's, so instead of netflix I just peruse there every week
Charity shops in UK.
There
You're living the dream.
Netflix is muting twitter accounts that share this video on their posts.
They don't like being called out.
The tech industry is on this weird crusade to eliminate all curation in the arts.
And all that does is leave people with mountains of trash to rummage through.
Criterion Collection movies and piracy are still alive and well. There's so much great media out there, it's just not on Netflix and social media. You have to look elsewhere.
Pretty much every company / industry fails when they start making too much money...greed destroys everything
Also they have to pay their shareholders now after success
I watched Lockwood & Co. repeatedly on Netflix and I was looking forward to the season 2 announcement. Then it was cancelled and I was really unhappy, but I reasoned that was because Dead Boy Detectives was seen as too similar (I disagree, but whatever) and DBD had The Sandman connection. Now they've cancelled DBD and like, WTF???!!!
DBD was cancelled because Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations
@@musa5950No it wasn't, at least not officially. The viewership wasn't doing the numbers they wanted
@@miseryfell6417but it was… they could have released the information before but they did after the cases went public
@@musa5950This is literally wrong? The writers, showrunners and Netflix themselves have confirmed this isn’t true.
I ended up reading the entire Lockwood & Co series (and the author's other books) because Netflix sucks and cancelled it and would rather read books than watch shows that are always cancelled
My family had our Netflix account since it was discs in the mail. I was always kinda mad that we didn't get any kind of grandfathered pricing or even. acknowledgement.
imagine if og accounts had different colours or something? Ooo gold maybe?
Call the subscription type "Netflix Originals"
I said the same thing the other day! There should be some kind of incentive for those who've been loyal subscribers since the early 00's. Funny how we would lose all sorts of household items but could always seem to find those Netflix envelopes in order to get our next batch of DVDs😅
Same! The $16 a month thing actually really makes me want to cancel but I’m not gonna lie after so many years. My algorithm is actually pretty good a lot of the time. I don’t want to teach it not to recommend love is blind again if I decide to come back
@@evrenandtheivy2288 that would be a slap in the face honestly
24:30 for people in the entertainment industry who have produced thousands of movies and shows, how do they not know that trying to take over the world is something only villains try to do? you NEVER hear the good guys saying they need to be the best and dominate all other options. that is the biggest red flag I've ever heard.
Excellent point 😅
That’s because the execs running this kind of thing don’t actually care about media and don’t take any lessons away from movies. They don’t see past how much money something can make them and they don’t actually see movies as art with a story and themes and messages. You would think a trope as simple to understand and popular as “supervillain wants to take over the world” would be obvious to these people, but I can guarantee you they’ve barely watched anything they green light to be made or watch ANY movie with any deeper understanding other than “this is just entertainment”
Netflix did put a random choice button and I hated it. It only did popular shows not niche specific to me which is what you are looking for when you use random button
I'm a subscriber from the Red envelope days and I am absolutely infuriated that Netflix got me hooked in Dead Boy Detectives and then pulled the rug out from under me. I'm a paying customer, not a data point. Infuriating.
@@ingridmatthews6627 It’s like going to a restaurant, eat something delicious and get food poisoning, but they still get your money. They keep doing this to their costumers without consequences
I feel like a big issue is one thing that really attracted me to netflix was not the new stuff but the ability to watch older programmes whenever. Shows that I knew I liked and were like a comfort. The issue is when they create an environment like that it encourages people to rewatch and not explore new shows meaning. There are things I'm interested in but I'll think for ages do I want to dedicate myself to this new show and then go on to put something I've already watched on because I know what I'm getting. This means especially with Disney yanking all it's shows off their, BBC doing the same with Top Gear. There is less of the comfort programmes. Therefore all their new content has to throw everything at the wall, cheap and make it clear that you don't have to follow the show just please watch even a single episode of this slop. Ironically the worst things about TV.
Tbf the BBC iPlayer is free... If you're British.
@@scrittle yeah and that's great but for Netflix themselves not, but I don't care
@scrittle its not free if ur british 💀 u still have to pay a tv license to use iplayer
@@gazingatsaturn yeah pay the licence fee 😉
also netflix love removing things constantly, so even something you watched on Netflix a month ago might not be there tomorrow
Why are executives so hungry for live experiences? Its obviously the hardest to pull off and the most expensive... Just to draw in more speculation bucks?
A coming of age moment for me was in the early 2000s when Nike bought out Converse sneakers and the quality dropped hard yet the marketing went up. That is a pattern I have seen over and over again. A creative person builds a brand and develops a good product only for them to eventually get bought out and the product quailty nosedrive as they maximize profit every way they can. I feel like the main business strategy to make money is to abuse built up good will of a brand.
That's capitalism babe
Executives are completely clueless
I feel the quality every time I go outside. My feet hurt!!! I can't believe people used to run in them?!
Starts with a C and ends with an M
@@catpers0n *cannibalism
never EVER getting over them cancelling i am not okay with this i will forever be angry at netflix for that😞 they cancel the best shows or give them at most like two seasons but keep the most shitty shows running for like 20 seasons its insane
Big Mouth is on s7 ffs. Meanwhile Inside Job cancelled after 1 season 😢
Don't remind me of that damned tv show with the hideous artstyle in the same sentence as Inside Job,,,,, Inside Job I miss you Inside Job,,,, when are you coming home Brett the kids and I miss you,,,,
Inside Job had 2 seasons 🧐
@@halfscan1 season 2 parts
I miss inside job so much that cancelation hurt.
Remember Travelers and Daybreak? Also cancelled...
I think netflix overestimate that if every hit show is gonna take 2 year breaks per season, why would anyone keep paying every month in that time? To rewatch the office for the 18th time? To watch Is It Cake? Especially if they're gonna cancel every show that doesn't hit mass virality in a matter of days after being released what's the point!
The cancellation of dead boy detectives was the final straw for me. That show was so good so funny so original and did so well but NOOOOOO
Dark Crystal was it.
I thought the cancellation had a lot to do with the Neil Gaiman allegations
@@pluutonius Nah, if that was true, they wouldn't have a new upcoming season of Sandman.
Gaiman had no hand in the creative side.
We wrote the characters into one comic in the 80s but it wasn’t his show. Sandman is still going and that is his show.
@@LittleMissLoungethe sandman s2 had finished filming long before the scandal broke. But also he wasn’t a creative on DBD.
I still have my netflix subscription for now but i'm starting to feel like a hold-out.... like the people still using facebook or something!
Tubi is better at this point and it's completely free. Cut the cord.
Aw, babe, Netflix subscription and Facebook come two for one in the aging millenial starter pack. Don't worry I'm old too just focus on and copy the style and lingo of 25 year old youtubers until it starts to feel creepy then we can have our mid life crisise.
Bahaha!
yeah cancel it untill your next favourite show is back on then subscribe for a month then cancel it again
Mu dad has it and doesn't watch it. In fact he never watched it.
yarrr the enshittification of netflix. when you're top dog the only way is down. why join the navy when you can be a pirate.
i heard through the grapevine that the reason they cancel shows is because they get a tax writeoff before the next financial quarter if they mark an in-dev show as a writeoff, and that the reason pricing keeps going up is because the physical cost of streaming infrastructure and liscencing agreements means that there are not enough wealthy people on earth for an 8 dollar modal to be successful
It baffles me that the announcement of a show being cancelled comes out before the first season now… how do you know it will flop? Why create it in the first place then?
Justice for The Get Down and Everything Sucks
Omg I loved everything sucks and was waiting for another season for so long. Finally googled when should I expect S2 and saw it was cancelled 😭
My friend auditioned for the Get Down because she’s a huge fan of Baz Luhrmann. She didn’t get season 1 but was encouraged by the producers to go for season 2. Obviously we know what happened… 😔 she eventually did get a lead part (Pretty Smart) but that ended after one season. At this point, I’m surprised the comedians haven’t taken shots at how frequently they’ve canceled shows before their potentials can be realized.
I heard about this video from the #saveDeadBoyDetectives fandom (so thank you for highlighting the show, specifically).
After watching your video in its entirety, I'm kind of left stunned. I've been a Netflix subscriber since they mailed physical DVDs out. Over the past few years, especially, I've been increasingly frustrated with the streaming service, but couldn't pinpoint why (aside from price increase and cancelled beloved shows-ie Dead Boy Detectives, the most recent victim).
Your highlighting of Cindy Holland's leaving, and the shift to quantity over quality, and the stupid games and eateries and whatever the hell their knockoff amusement park experiences are, were all incredibly eye opening.
I assumed Netflix was still recovering from the pandemic and the writers strike. I had no idea how much of this was a mess of their own making. Looking at DBD, specifically, I had wondered why they fought so hard for rights to the show (they bought it from Max after 6 of the 8 shows were already filmed) only to give it the odd release date and nearly zero promotion. Furthermore, I couldn't figure out why they canceled the show nearly 5 months after it aired, at a time when it's numbers were actually quite high, but they only looked at the first 2 months of streaming to justify their decision. It all points to a much deeper dysfunction. Which makes sense. They are *incredibly* dysfunctional. And it's not sustainable for them. After watching your video, I kind of feel the streaming conglomerate is a sinking ship, and they're the ones that drove it right into the capitalistic iceberg.
And yeah. I miss my DVDs. I've started buying physical media again. I'm going to dream with you, that a new streaming service will appear that is more like what Netflix was back in their brief heyday. Maybe Cindy Holland can be in charge.
The way companies are obsessed with nonstop, non capped growth goals is crazy to me. Yes, it's important to have goals, but to expect insane year over year profit forever until the end of time... how ??
So spot on with that definition of the word content. The natural conclusion to the metaphore is the pig's swillification of it all. We don't have to like it as long as we keep lapping it up. And we do!
It’s insane how Netflix doesn’t let a show cook. They want an instant fan base but that’s not how this works 😂 although even when a show is popular they still drop it or take five years to make a season two!? For example blue eye samurai, why is the next season 3 years later and 2 hours shorter than the first season? Or Lockwood and co, a well acted show with a great story and BOOM, dropped. No one is going to stick with you if you can’t stick with ANYTHING we come to love.
I first heard of Stranger Things on the school bus on the way home. To this day I try to maintain that word of mouth feel for any movies or shows I watch by not viewing any trailers beforehand.
This is how I watch shows and movies, but that's also why I thought baby reindeer was a comedy and watched it when I was high as a kite and wanting to cheer myself up after a rough week. Yeah... I'll ask more questions about the things people recommend to me in the future
@@miminaomi-jg8ey I have a similar story. I saw half a trailer of Midsommar and thought it was a comedic thriller, so I went to go see it with my aunt (as a teenager myself mind you). Needless to say, that was a veeeery uncomfortable theater experience lmao.
I started hating Netflix when they disallowed the Account sharing. It was such a great thing :(
Yup. I can no longer watch Netflix on my phone because I refuse to change how much I pay and I live in a different country to where I pay the bill 💀 also the speed button has been removed at my plan level too so have to use a widget on goggle chrome 💀 not looking good. Just ruining themselves.
They burned so much goodwill people had towards their brand when they did that hey.
1:21 stranger things came out 2016. Most everyone had Netflix by then?? But it was before you had to have 5+ streaming services just to watch 3 tv shows.
I too own a ridiculous amount of DVDs and I still have that innate urge to buy more
start pirating
Real, back in the day bookstores used to sell dvds but now i can only find a limited selection at walmart (ik if i really want to i can just order dvds but i like the experience of perusing them in-store)
@@atlasyeehawlook at thrift stores!
Hoarding instinct 😂😂❤❤ been there done that!
I would argue that Cindy was more of an artist because of her ability to curate quality content. Bela strikes me more as an executive concerned with eternal growth. Interesting for her to wear something like “art is truth.” She could turn it around, but I also understand the pressure to change things up always. I only say this as a person who would like to see them succeed.
Biggest thing i hate about netflix and why i dont use it anymore is the terrible interface and their misuse of the categories section. I got so sick of scrolling through categories and seeing the same 10 shitty adam sandler movies pop up at the top. If netflix wants eyeballs on an original movie, instead of making it good and hoping it will get spread through word of mouth, they'll just brand it as a drama, comedy, action, thriller, suspense, and romance, put it at the top of all of those categories, and hope it will get chosen out of apathy rather than genuine interest.
thanks so much for speaking on this. i'm the sole music composer of one of their interactive programs, Battle Kitty, which is going through the very pipeline you described: one very underpromoted season, cliffhanger, no renewal, then followed by deplatforming (Dec '24). our whole team, myself included feel lucky it came out at all as it was a project enabled by their promising new animation division, which got dismantled as soon as the management got shaken up during the pandemic. lol and of course, the news of the deplatforming was broken to me through social media a couple weeks ago. I still don't have a line of communication open for the future of the soundtrack release they managed, and this is anything but exceptional. really awful to see them continue down this path
If a show isn't the next Stranger Things or Wednesday they immediately throw it down the drain.
HOT TAKE !!!! okay so i also thought insatiable sounded horrific UNTIL I watched olivia kathryn’s video “in defense of insatiable” and then i ended up watching both seasons of the show. is it the best show ever made? no it’s incredibly corny and has riverdale vibes. but it’s intentionally campy because it’s about beauty pageants. the point of the show wasn’t “fat bad, skinny good!” it was about a girl with binge eating disorder who struggles with it even once she’s skinny. it shows 1) how society is obsessed with thinness and 2) that just because you’re skinny doesn’t mean all your problems go away. it’s emphasized in the show that patty kinda becomes a terrible person despite becoming conventionally attractive girl. idk again it wasn’t a fantastic groundbreaking show, but it was different than how everyone assumed it would be.
So glad someone said this
Y'all needed an exploitative show to see that?
That kinda just sounds like they’re doing “fat=good person, skinny=bitch” which isn’t much better. Like as a fat adult that was a fat kid, neither of those extremes helped me deal with bullying or self image at all
@@chelscarathat's not what they did at all, Patty is a bad person from the start, no matter her weight. But when she becomes conventionally pretty she gains social power that enables her to commit worse and worse acts.
@@chelscara i don’t think the show was that black and white, but i agree that equating morality with ANY weight isn’t helpful!! idk i might have done a terrible job summarizing the show🥲 olivia kathryn’s video is way more detailed
23:50 arcane and blue eye samurai, vinland saga, cowboy bebop, cyberpunk edgerunners, MAYBE castlevania, mob psycho 100 oh and SCAVENGERS REIGN if you havnt seen it its good, too bad hbo canceled it, Narcos
Interesting that most great Netflix originals are animated! A highly underrated medium
inside job and captain fall are quite good too
The Sandman and its little spinoff series Dead Boy Detectives are also super good. super upset with the cancelation of Dead Boy Detectives tho 😭
THEY CANCELLED SCAVENGERS REIGN????????
Also I’d like to say that while these shows are amazing, none of them are Netflix originals and a lot of the times they get lost is the sea of shit Netflix wastes its money on :,\ so a lot of people haven’t seen them which created an illusion that nobody wants to watch these
forever mourning the loss of the society, i am not okay with this, and most recently dead boy detectives. all interesting shows with explicitly queer characters and some incredible actors, all cancelled so we could get five fucking seasons of stranger things (which is now just action slop thats gotten progressively worse with each season) and a shitty live action avatar the last airbender remake already slated for a second season. there are some true gems hidden within the broader "netflix originals" space, but so many aren't given a real chance to succeed and its devastating. i can't imaging how soul crushing it is to be a creative in that space right now. if youre not perceived as profitable enough, youre on the chopping block.
But god forbid they let Big Mouth have less than seven seasons 🙄
Another video you hit for 6. Keep em coming, my man. Love your stuff (although don't burn yourself out). And yeah, early 2010s netflix was a golden age.
I hate how certain shows are now hidden behind a paywall, everything should be available regardless of how much you spend on a monthly subscription.
WOW i can't believe you included Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down as one of the early Netflix originals that was cancelled too soon! That cancellation truly devastated me, I still believe that show was the best thing Netflix ever made.
honestly, the way people got pissed about cancellations of their fave series, netflix learned their lesson.... by introducing limited series-- so people can't get pissed. also whats up with Netflix doing live shows now. doesn't that like... defeat the whole point?
i REFUSE to keep buying streaming access to my favorite films that I watch for nostalgia + comfort. That’s why I still have some DVDs from 2001 😂 I haven’t had a Netflix subscription since 2016. Looks like I haven’t missed much 😅
The Dead Boy Detectives cancellation HURTS 😔
The cancellation of shadow and bone made me so unhappy the casting was incredible and it ended on such a big cliff hanger
my exact problem with them cancelling Santa Clarita diet
My problem with Lockwood and Co.
@@themischief420 Santa Clarita diet was SO GOOD like omg what a great idea for the tired zombie trope especially after the walking dead and the cast was phenomenal! who in their right mind cancelled a drew barrymore show like ????
my exact issue with Welcome to Eden. Such an intriguing premise with surprisingly good acting and also ended on a cliffhanger after two seasons.
@@28pinkdancer I'm so mad about it 😭😭😭 they loved cancelling anything after 3 seasons regardless of audience reception
and the CLIFFHANGER
Loved the video and the points you were making overall! But it sucks when people attack woman about their voice (15:29). It cheapens your overall criticism of her. Having heard this “criticism” so much in my life, it makes it harder as a woman to speak up because in the back of my head I’m worried that people are only judging the way I speak and not listening to words im saying :(
so glad im not the only one kinda irked by this - it's just vocal fry we all have it, but only women are called annoying for doing it :/
I usually agree with arguments like this because I think many women are unfairly mocked for the way they speak, even though their speech isn’t inherently less intellectual than those who don’t use similar vernacular. However, in this case, we're talking about a woman who works in TV and as a creative, and she described one of her projects as "great" more than three times. That’s absurd. If you’re a creative and discussing something you're passionate about, and the only word you can use is "great," I think it’s fair for people to criticize that. The criticism of how she speaks isn't because she's a woman-it’s because she shows so little passion about art. It’s clear she’s in it for profit, or as she repeatedly mentioned, for "growth." He compared her to Trisha Paytas because she sounds a bit like her. Trisha Paytas isn’t someone I’d want to hear passionately and intellectually break down a piece of art-not because I doubt her intelligence, but because, in my opinion, that’s not her area of expertise. This isn't about mocking someone for being a woman, or even just about her vocal fry, it's the whole package- the tiktok accent, the referring to art as "content," and the very clear desire for "growth" and not for actual good art. She sounds like a female tiktok influencer reviewing a make-up product because she's getting paid for it, not because she likes it, and she can only think of a few words to describe the product, because she couldn't care less about the actual product. He also seems to poke fun of the way pretty much every person he discusses speaks
Thank you- I live in California and that accent he's talking about is the valley girl accent that has always always always been made fun of. It really cheapens & colors the video imo. He uses it to make her sound more stupid than she is- he's not mocking her words, he's mocking her accent. And it's really disheartening he'd attack her natural voice like that. Like c'mon man.
1:30 I feel old my introduction to Netflix was ordering the dvd and excitingly waiting for the dvd then losing it and getting in trouble lmao
My younger sister found three Netflix dvds when she moved out of our parents’ house. She sent Netflix an email asking how to return them and the email they sent back was essentially a really professional, “lmao what? they’re yours now. Enjoy those three Barbie movies you rented when you were 8.”
they HAD a random choice button!! and it let you click though different shows a few minutes in. it was like flipping channels. you'd find something good and get sucked in. it was great, then they got RID of it!!
i swear i imagined that feature everytime i tell someone about it and no one knows what im talking about, thank you for confirming that it was a real thing hahaha
Sense 8 and The OA, still stings
I will never forgive them for cancelling the OA
Legit Sense 8! One of the first things they cancelled 😭
I've been waiting for someone to make this video!!!
You missed the point completely, Netflix downfall started when they removed user and IMDb ratings. That allowed them to create and publish original bad quality content without immediate repercussions. Then like tech, it started syphoning money. Stranger things was deep in the downfall. You're focusing on the few shows deep into "The shittfication". The reason they standout is because the majority of original content was sooooooo horrible.
Interesting point. I actually have a hard time to remember what the "content" of Stranger-Things-Netflix-era looked like...
So, would you say that in regards to the amount of good vs. bad original Netflix content there wasn't much of a decline?
It’s quite infuriating that shows like 1899 and the OA are getting cancelled but Emily in Paris is on season 4 or 5😢
The society being cancelled still haunts me- my villain origin story
i turned on netflix when they cancelled tuca & bertie after one season for "low ratings" when they didn't promote the show a single time
The same thing happened with Lockwood and Co!
On my mama, I thought ‘Is It Cake’ was an SNL parody 😭
i mean the stars there are from SNL
How can someone as incompetent as Bela STILL have a job!?? Netflix execs are so out of touch. They seriously have no idea what people want
Dodgy economics. She's facilitating a standard model for large corps.
i didn't watch s1 of stranger things right when it came out, probably took a few months. i remember it in so much detail. i was 13, staying over with 2 of my best friends. we stayed up all night watching the whole thing, and we went to bed around 4 or 5am. i woke up the next morning on a deflated air mattress, we all went over to my house and i made us iced lattes, and we sat on pool floats in the middle of my pool scaring each other talking about the demogorgon coming out of my pool drain to get us. it's such a core memory to me, and now my family doesn't even use Netflix bc there's never good movies and the original content is all so bad. rip netflix
Just gonna remind you all that pirates are very cool people. I love pirates. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
100% agree. I hardly watch it anymore. They keep suggesting things I’ve watched. A whole line of shows I’ve watched over the years. They’re suggested shows are cancelled shows-Deadboy Detectives just showed up. I’m ready to cancel after almost 20 years because they have nothing for me anymore. And one good show a year isn’t worth it.
Netflix was good before streaming. When you ordered a DVD and got it in the mail. Then you returned it and got the next one….prevented the binging on shows and brain rot. Entertainment is too easy and low quality now. Maybe those things go together
"he looks like the kinda guy logan roy would shout at" is so good im stealing it
For story building wise, I think they should have a pre planned number of seasons and back the project all the way through. It'd help viewers, creators and netflix's reputation. We dont need shows that never end, we need shows that tell full stories.
They also cancelled Lockwood and Co after putting their sticker on all the books 😢.
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the auto-play has made me less likely to open netflix. i’m going to ask my partner if we can cancel the subscription and spend that yearly $200 on DVDs instead
Netflix games, restaurants etc. and the pricing are just so silly 😭 Their business decisions literally feel like Nathan Fielder infiltrated their ranks or something
(the "Algorythm" typo and the 51:21 French jumpscare really elevate the video)
They seem like they went to Canadian business school, where they got really good grades.
Imagine the amount of subscribers they‘re gonna loose after stranger things ends
Yeah alright, between the Cindy stuff and not paying their actors, I’m ready to let go of Netflix and just get BoJack and a few others a different way
YES ! use ur wallet to boycott shit companies
Not sure which other countries have had this rolled out also, but in Australia we now have "netflix households" ie. You can only share an account with people on the same wifi IP address as the main account holder. For the first couple months it only seemed to apply to netflix on TVs or consoles, but now i cant even use netflix on my PHONE because its not in the same household as my sister (whose account it is). Theres a button that says "im travelling" which sends her a text code and i put it in, but it only lasts 2 weeks and if you try do it again after time's up, the travelling option just disappears and there's a button to create your own account/subscription. The only way to get around it is to go to her house once a month, connect to her wifi, and open the netflix app.
She used to pay for 4 screens (which i think was 25.99aud a month which is crazy in itself) for herself, me, my brother, my parents, but now shes downgraded it to 1 because what's the point. If youre paying for multiple screens how is it their business where those screens are. Fuck Netflix
What best encapsulates netflixs current reputation are the comments on any of their posts: people begging for their favourite cancelled shows to be brought back!!!
1:01 Referring to Netflix in 2014 as "back before" it was a universal giant is missing the mark by almost a decade. Netflix KILLED Blockbuster by 2010, it was already a household name by that point. Netflix introduced Americans to the concept of streaming, and were the ONLY subscription streaming platform available for a number if years. 2014 wasn't the beginning of the Netflix supremacy era, 2014 was smack in the middle of it.
Netflix launched in the UK in 2012. It was around 2014 or so before it was truly global, or "universal". There is more to the world than the USA.
@relwalretep You don't get to show up late to a market Netflix had already conquered and pretend it didn't count until you got in. Sorry, the rest of y'all didn't matter, Netflix was the only legal online movie streaming service on the planet and had put the video rental market in its grave by the turn of the decade. 2014 is when you finally caught up.
Losing Lockwood and co is more of a tragedy. It had joe Cornish at the helm as well as Complete fiction. DBD was a comic before the book, but if you compare the shows you can tell dbd ripped a lot of design and shot elements.
Gutted about Dead Boy Detectives. It's so well acted, written, and heartfelt. Magical too. Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should give it a watch! #SaveDeadBoyDetectives
The thing that upsets me with Dead Boy Detectives is they figured it would do well and already wrote up the whole script for s2, like the script is just sitting in a box somewhere in Netflix Hell. Plus it already went through production hell since it was supposed to be a Doom Patrol spin off.
I want DVDs to be normal again, I LOVE being able to hold my favorite movie in my hands. Streaming everything is sooo annoying most of the time.
Yes! The tactile sensation of holding a DVD, a book, a CD or Vinyl album is so special and lovely to me. I’ll never not love physical media.
We've returned to buying traditional, physical media. Bought a DVD player at an auction, and buy DVDs at thrift stores. Ended up with so many that we had to buy a shelf for them! My fiance's parents pay for Netflix and we used password sharing for it but once they started that whole "your ip address isn't the home address you can't use this acct" we rejected that shit. Not paying $15 for something we can get at home.
yup!! the best thing is that DVDs and blu rays are so cheap secondhand at the moment! somehow browsing a shelf at the thrift store is LESS overwhelming than netflix...
@@jessica23claire exactly! I even found some obscure horror movie from the 50's ! I'm excited to watch it 😁
I was devastated when i was waiting for Sens8's 2nd season and the news broke out that it got cancelled and got a measly like film length special instead when people were rightfully pissed
I'll never forgive Netflix for cancelling everything I ever watched there, specially my beloved Warrior Nun, i miss my silly ninja nuns so bad 😭
The streaming model is horrible and inefficient, i hate how short seasons are, I hate how long it takes to produce them, I hate nothing is guaranteed to have more than 1 season, and i hate how franchises are just in pieces distributed in different streaming services.
The other day I was trying to watch the Resident Evil movies but each streaming only had available like 2 out of the 6 movies at random, it was so frustrating, so i solved the problem by just buying all the dvds now I can rewatch them to my heart's desire 😁
Have you seen or heard of Lockwood and Co? That's another one of the many that got canceled.
uh, Netflix is doing better than ever. stock is soaring, added millions more subs, and the only streamer to EASILY make a profit. geez
If you have not watched Dead Boy Detectives, it really is worth watching even tho it was cancled :/