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My thinking exactly. Got Netflix couple of years ago because of the Witcher and since then I'm finding it hard to find anything watchable. I was going to say that they heavily favor quantity over quality. But not even that is true, since their selection is rather limited. The search result "we don't have X, but you might like A, B, C" which are usually the same and unrelated things over and over, appears way too often.

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Netflix is far more robust and smarter than what you could ever strike them down for. These aren't people who just started a few weeks ago in the industry, and they are far from the people who are equally long lived dinosaurs who can't or won't keep up and dies in the past.

You're just not the target market anymore, and that's more than fine, because there's a few hundred million that are, and that number is growing, not shrinking, in fact they're growing faster than ever.

I'm not discussing Netflix's fiscal results. My comment is about their production quality, which I find to be low and their limited content selection. Obviously, that is my experience which I don't generalize to other people.

Yes, it's totally fine to be dissatisfied with a service and cancel subscription when you're no longer getting the value. I think that it's the rational thing to do.

The "Is it cake" made me cancel Netflix. That and some shows about car restoration with focus on drama.

I don't want to pay and end up supporting such dreg.

It is funny though. For some reason I almost watched 5 episodes of is it cake and a lot of the car restoration shows.

It is like you default to time wasting when you have nothing you want to see. And I don't want that exposure ...

What you describe is exactly how I felt about regular broadcast/cable. What you wanted to watch when you had time to watch might not have been on, so you channel surf until you find something. Maybe it was something you found interesting, or maybe you just got tired of surfing and just left it on whatever pissed you off the least. Very similar to doom scrolling a streaming platform’s listings where you realize you’ve just spent 15 minutes looking at the menu but not actually watching anything.

At least with YouTube you can end up in weird and interesting rabbit holes (I recommend “moving large things with trucks” and “blowing up buildings” and “railway snow clearing”). Sometimes you even learn something.

All the cable/Netflix slop ends up being basically the same story.

I'm also finding that I'm getting far more value (both entertainment and educational) from YouTube than Netflix.

Lately, several months go by without me even touching Netflix. I'm at the stage, where I keep the subscription because of maybe one show in a year which I then watch in a week, when it's finally released.

Ye. It is a kinda strange phenomena. As if bad shows are a lesser emotional commitment or something.

I think it's less commitment and more of just waving the flag and just putting something on to just be mindless and zone out for a bit. The mental exhaustion of scrolling through banal entry after banal entry of pablum content just wears on a person. It's definitely first world problems though. I've started to just hit the power button when I find myself in that state and finding something else to do. Even if it's just playing with the four legged roommates.

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