No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
Proving that the Netflix execs don’t have the foggiest fucking idea what they’re doing.
You gain viewers by engaging them - by giving them something so interesting that they can’t be distracted.
If you dumb everything down, the most likely outcome is that rather than looking at their phones in addition to your show, they look at their phones instead of your show.
As long as the people are still subscribing, it doesn’t matter.
Have a 19 year old that cant watch an Instagram clip to completion. Im not sure if Netflix needs to adapt or correct the behavior? Unless I’m on a flight, I never watch a movie on my phone.
I mean… have you met people? We’re all collectively getting dumber by the hour. So I guess it makes sense to chase that moving target.
The Idiots Are Taking Over
And that was back in what… 2003? 23 more years to marinate
Not really. It actually makes sense. I often look for easy movies to watch while I do dishes. I wouldn’t ever sit down to watch them, and I wouldn’t want to watch good movies while doing dishes because I can’t get immersed.
The other half of this proof is them being practically the only streaming service with binge/bulk releases instead of weekly. Ifs very likely this way because they’re too stupid to gauge a show’s success by any other metric than how much people watch in a short time.