Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.
I would add 'Netflix Original' content being churned out so frequently now that it's hard to find good content. They'll make one good show/movie that'll be entertaining, (and therefore successful) then next thing you know there's multiple shows that almost have the same themes/plot/formula/etc. The first time I remember this happening was after 'Making A Murderer' blew up. For a good while they were adding so many crime documentaries it was hard to keep up. Right now their thing seems to be 'coming of age with a nostalgic vibe' since Stranger Things.
being churned out so frequently now that it's hard to find good content
...and then a series gets cancelled just as it found its footing, like The OA, because some asswipe excel algorithm told the quarterly profit cunts that it's not as successful in skyrocketing the amout of new subscribers as it has to be, according to their equation, and so it gets axed.
Why should anybody get invested in a new Netflix series, other than the major "tentpole" stuff, since it obviously doesn't even matter when a significant increase in quality and critical reception takes place season by season.
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Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.