Definitely not how I use streaming services but ok.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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I may need some help with this one..
I read it as "every streaming series is trying to be everything to everyone". Netflix will list the exact same series under whatever it thinks your favourite genre is, because it does contain elements of that genre
Oo I didn't know that last part, that would do it. Thanks!
Streaming services allow people to watch whatever they want at any time. This is mom cooking each kid their own dish.
But that's less efficient than cooking one meal to serve thrice.
So now streaming services are realizing there's money to be saved by not offering every series and movie ever made.
This makes sense but also the example situation only serves to try to generate sympathy for them.
A mother making three different meals is ridiculous, but needing several services and recreating cable for $40/mo is also stupid.
Change the mom to a restaurant and it makes more sense. The whole point of paying a restaurant is that each person can get whatever meal they want simultaneously, like how the point of cable or streaming services is to have various kinds of content. If the restaurant decides they're only going to serve one meal no matter what people order, well, most people aren't going to pay for that. The mom can do whatever she wants because she isn't getting paid to make all these meals, and her "customers" are children who aren't allowed to eat anywhere else.
I only have one at any given time and use my mom's Amazon prime and Disney+ so far those two haven't kicked me off, but Hulu did.