Because it provides the single most important factor of leverage for artists and unions to find some stake in their own success.
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But in a world where everything is turning to streaming and subscription models, the company cash flow now has nothing to do with your given success, so they paint you one way or the other to help their $$$ side.
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I understand some of what I'm saying is generalization and there's a lot of little finicky points in this. There are people are genuine damn experts in all of it (and fighting accordingly). But this is absolutely the broad strokes of what is happening.
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What's hilarious is the studios would have LOVED to have this years ago because it meant they wouldn't have to have shared backend, etc. But now we're undoing basically everything those artists and unions fought for.
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"But but but please tell me it's good for consumers?" Sorry, it just means your favorite shows are going to get cancelled more and for less good reasons. Also movies don't make economic sense for streamers soooooooo not looking great on that front either.
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Who is this ultimately good for? The answer, like most late stage capitalist developments, is always just the major streaming companies and that's it. So it may just seem like numbers reporting, but it's part of the ever-widening, horrifying jaw of the haves and have nots. END
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Film Crit Hulk Retweeted Smēgols "Cameron" McGurkleburp
This is really important thing to add! The whole thing is it's not true. HBO will tell you that taking great shows past a couple seasons can ABSOLUTELY bring in new subs, in fact, it's the best way to do just that.https://twitter.com/SweetCammyMac/status/1354827525722140673 …
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Look at the ratings below for Game of thrones. The ratings for breaking bad got bigger with every season. It is absolutely CRITICAL for your business. So why isn't NETFLIX realizing that?https://watchersonthewall.com/game-thrones-breaks-new-viewership-record-season-8s-winterfell/ …
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The simple reason is because they haven't had a GREAT show yet that scaled up (outside of bojack, that went 6). It's mostly the mix of bad creative models and constantly misunderstanding their own data because they look at it from tech perspective over creative.
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Do you think Stranger Things has a chance to go the distance?
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I'll put it this way, I was so frustrated with the plot-blocking I personally peaced out of that show.
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