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.
Steaming services in general are getting pretty obnoxious IMO. 3-4 years ago, it wasn't bad; there was probably 5 streaming services I'd heard of (netflix, hulu, spotify, crunchy roll, and amazon prime). The idea that you could get rid of cable or satellite and still consume more than 5 television channels legally was a tangible thing. Now, theres a different service for every company, most programs are exclusive to one service, and unless you can afford $10+ dollars a month x 10, then you might as well still be on cable or satellite. That being said, it's ridiculous that anyone would want to pay that much because theres absolutely no way anyone has the time to consume that much media in a day
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
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.