things we tried:
- jacking up prices
- adding ads to paid services
- canceling the better shows
- not adding anything meaningful
- making specifically terrible shows that are obviously terrible from the get go
- making the algorithm noticeably worse to cover up for the worse output
- platforming has-been comedians so they can cry about how they aren’t platformed anymore on our platform in a distinctly unfunny and joke-free manner
We’re out of ideas… maybe we should utilize AI?
You forgot limiting quality on web browsers
no they started pirating because of the ridiculous number of
screamingstreaming servicesthanks autocomplete :(
I mean, Scream Box is a streaming service (ish), so one could say it’s a screaming service.
It’s not fatigue, it’s enshitification. We’re not going to continue paying more for less. Bye!
Yaaaaar!!!
- Streaming time grows steadily for years.
- Streaming services insert ads in paid accounts.
- Streaming time decreases.
- “Streaming Fatigue” - yeah, that’s it! Obviously!
Don’t forget the steady fracturing of media licenses across dozens of services, coupled with enhanced enshittification.
Everyone’s focusing so much on exclusivity to draw people in while their service quality quickly jumps straight down the nearest manhole.
Very simple rule fuckers. Ads and free or paid and no ads.
Hmm… Yeah this is why they’re going after pirate sites because people pushing back.
If green line for streaming does not continue to go up, I expect the propaganda with VPNs will be targeted as “used by criminals” Or “exclusive to CSAM” with talks of senate or house about “banning” or “restricting” them “for the children” in 2025
This is more or less implied in project 2025 with all the age verification shit they want to implement at a national level to keep kids from learning that gay people are humans.
A depressingly prescient comment
Too many services with too low quality content.
Once Upon a Time Netflix premiered a handful of huge shows and movies a season. Then they got addicted to watch metrics and decided everything should be “second screen content” from a firehose.
Now I don’t watch any Netflix original until it’s concluded or has rave reviews, because it’s likely to get canceled in season 1 or just not be worth watching at all. And in the rare case it is great, gets picked up, and have rave reviews, they can still fuck it up like The Witcher.
Every other network is pretty much guilty of this too. I’m so, so over it. They have made me actually long for the option of a singular cable-like license I could get, because they are so shitty at maintaining their services and their catalogs are so poor now.
I just roll my own now and host a Plex server, because fuck em.
I don’t even pirate Netflix shows because there’s a good chance it will get canceled after one season. Why bother, knawmean
Put ads in a service I pay for?
*****cancelled!****"I’m done with streaming it only really worked when there was one, now they’ve saturated it to the degree it’s pointless. Not only that but they keep raising prices for a worse service and now they have all went ad crazy on top of it.
I see no benifit to subscribing to any of them I’d rather watch free to air stuff if I have to see ads, and for anything else I’ll hoist the black flag since I’d likely need about 10 subscriptions otherwise.
What killed it for me was Paramount moving all of Star Trek off Netflix when I was in the middle of a show. So, I moved to Paramount begrudgingly, and then they moved it to HBO. That’s when I was done. That and the Netflix password sharing changes made up my mind, and I cancelled everything.
It probably would have worked with more than one service if they did what music did: almost everything is everywhere. If you pay for a music service, you almost certainly can find what you are looking for. (Hell, one doesn’t even need to pay for Youtube and the vast majority is there too). Contrast with streaming services where each piece of content is likely only on one service.
No, I will not be paying for more than one streaming service, if your content isn’t on the service I pay for, that is your problem, not mine.
Plex has a surprisingly decent selection on the live tv/movies tab.
I want to watch Stargate SG1. I hear people say it’s on Prime Video, so I subscribe. It’s not there. I guess being a filthy European makes me unworthy. So I bite the bullet and get a VPN. Now I’m paying what amounts to twice the price of the usual subscription. I start watching the series and guess what? It’s leaving Prime in a few days. Motherf…
Never better served than with Piracy™!
Check out your local library. Mine has physical disks of a lot of shows. With MakeMKV and Handbrake, and about an hour per disc (computer time- my time is maybe 5 minutes per), I can return the discs and watch the show at my leisure. If you have a ton of disk space, you can skip Handbrake and just keep the .mkv files…
I recommend grabbing the full collection plus related movies elsewhere.
Could have just bought it on dvd, much less stress
I hadn’t noticed, but the consolidation has happened. The cycle completes as the phone and cable companies all have streaming bundles now. It’s cable TV again in another form. Still horseshit, but that’s going to be their collective play I guess
It always was. They tried sueing their way out of the loss of control, that didn’t work, so they moved to backroom deals, until their power was once again consolidated.
I have none of them left. Same reasons as everyone else, the value is not there and it’s a subscription that ticks money even when I don’t use it.
Maybe they should try not being shitty and expensive?
No one has mentioned COVID and habits. Sure we aren’t in lockdown, but it was literally the only thing to do a few years ago and people likely continued due to it be a comfort.
It has changed how we did things. As well as all the enshitifucation.
I honestly don’t even care to watch things anymore anyway; This is probably closed minded of me to say but, I feel like I’ve already watched my favorite movie and my favorite tv show. If new stuff comes out that is good, that’s great! but it’s never going to be as meaningful to me as the things I watched as I grew up. Hollywood is old news, gaming is where it’s at for me now.
