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Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash

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Post by solarhoma »

scotu wrote: post #181
solarhoma wrote: post #175

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Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

By having homosexuality violently oppressed, ostracized and ridiculed in the past, and slowly reversing that attitude towards it? People were literally criminals for loving people of the same sex...

20-40 years turnaround in a civilization is anything but slow in my opinion.

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Post by safety1st »

solarhoma wrote: post #175
dillondoyle wrote: post #145

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Gen-z identifies as 20% queer. Each new generation is more willing/able to live their truth. Wouldn't surprise me if we land somewhere around 25-30%. In large part thanks to representation in shows and movies. The us is rapidly diversifying too in terms of race, yet still even more under represented in media. Glaad says only ~10% queer characters on broadcast, and was a decline from previous study. Specifically compa…

Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

The parent is probably referring to the Gallup poll in February which found a significant uptick in Americans who identify as LGBT+.

Gallup doesn't make any bones about it, the bulk of the uptick was in Gen Z women identifying as bisexual. They also didn't hesitate to observe that the bulk of bisexual-identifying people eventually settle into a heterosexual relationship.

So in point of fact we haven't had a 10x increase in homosexuality, we have had a surge in young women who are statistically likely to settle into hetero relationships declaring themselves as bi.

In my opinion it helps nobody to muddle or politicize the statistics. For me it's hard to not draw the conclusion that heterosexual young people want to be allies and are declaring themselves as bisexual and perhaps experimenting a bit as a show of support. Seems more likely than the idea that a full fifth of the human population that has been sexually oppressed since the dawn of history, but it's open to interpretation I suppose.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-tick...

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

justahuman74 wrote: post #157
scarface74 wrote: post #144

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So it’s not consistent that show set in America be multi-racial and have people with different sexual orientations? Back in the 90s, they showed Jadzia Dax as being interested in men and women on Star Trek DS9. Not to mention X-men has always been a allegory of prejudice against minorities.

I think it's more that Netflix just has poor execution on a lot of shows. When telling a story on TV, you often want to cut the story to the bone such that it can be understood quickly and entertain without confusing the viewer with side tangents that aren't central to the story. If a non-story-essential element is too prominent then the viewer might feel it's boring

This happened to Doctor Who. Too much emphasis on LGBTQ rather than good stories.

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Post by solarhoma »

safety1st wrote: post #192
solarhoma wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

The parent is probably referring to the Gallup poll in February which found a significant uptick in Americans who identify as LGBT+. Gallup doesn't make any bones about it, the bulk of the uptick was in Gen Z women identifying as bisexual. They also didn't hesitate to observe that the bulk of bisexual-identifying people eventually settle into a heterosexual relationship. So in point of fact we haven't had a 10x incre…

Good, and concise write up. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree.

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Post by dmitriid »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #86
dmitriid wrote: post #68

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> Netflix created the bad but successful template that the other streaming services followed: own the streaming platform and the content Netflix was basically forced into this template when major content owners started pulling out and creating their own services.

Sure, absolutely, I could probably rephrase to make that clear, I don't think it was their "fault" per se, but a result of the asymmetrical power relationship between content producer and streaming service.

Content producers have all the power in such relationships, unfortunately.

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Post by Espressosaurus »

solarhoma wrote: post #189
dillondoyle wrote: post #145

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Gen-z identifies as 20% queer. Each new generation is more willing/able to live their truth. Wouldn't surprise me if we land somewhere around 25-30%. In large part thanks to representation in shows and movies. The us is rapidly diversifying too in terms of race, yet still even more under represented in media. Glaad says only ~10% queer characters on broadcast, and was a decline from previous study. Specifically compa…

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Like most things in biology, sexual attraction is a spectrum. It's not binary.

Given wider acknowledgement and acceptance of that I can see more folks coming out as bi.

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Post by avalys »

QuikAccount wrote: post #185
colinmhayes wrote: post #127

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> Documentaries that were more ideological than interesting I can not stand how every "documentary" on netflix is actually an extremely opinionated political piece or true crime. And I usually agree with the political opinion, it's just incredibly annoying and divisive, and really it mostly feels dishonest.

I hate to break this to you but that's all documentaries in general. Every documentary has the goal of convincing you of something.

Ever watch Modern Marvels on the History Channel? The only point of those is “look at this cool shit!”

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Post by dmitriid »

barbazoo wrote: post #89
dmitriid wrote: post #65

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And then you can't play trailers. Though Netflix insists on playing on random clips instead of trailers anyway.

I don't think so, you can still go to "Trailers & more" and watch the trailer.

I don't think I've seen "Trailers or more" in a while now since they changed their interface to a narrow popup with episode info.

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Post by dmitriid »

the_common_man wrote: post #74
dmitriid wrote: post #65

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And then you can't play trailers. Though Netflix insists on playing on random clips instead of trailers anyway.

What does trailers have to do with auto play?

With auto play enabled Netflix would show a random clip from the movie/show. In about 5% of the cases they would play the trailer (which is really what you want).

If you turn auto play off, there's no way to play anything. You have to just start watching.

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Post by lawik »

colechristensen wrote: post #80
boredumb wrote: post #72

A pile of mid tier content that i'd flick through before exiting out after an episode Automatic previews Increasing pop politics seemingly shoe horned into everything I'd turn on Horrible comedians that were akin to ted talks/lectures or made for people who don't actually enjoy stand up comedy. Documentaries that were more ideological than interesting Signing and hiring ex politicians Searching is a chore and recomme…

I likewise would like to watch a nature documentary once in a while which didn’t feel obligated to mention impending doom at least once every five minutes. If anybody had anything to say about said doom above a fifth grade level, I might watch that too.

I was surprised how hard it was to find nature documentaries that mostly showed nature and animals and not talking heads very concerned about the planet. I'm all aboard but it wasn't what I wanted to show my 1.5 year-old. I wanted her to see cool animals.

This was across a few platforms, had to really dig.

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