Why do you think Netflix is struggling so much with it's viewership now?
Not enough entertaining content? People back to work from Covid? People just watching shows less?
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
PatKirby · M
In a word - Wokeness. Netflix publicly displayed a disturbing shift into woke politics.
Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and their stock crashed 37 percent on one day. Even Elon Musk tweeted what everyone was thinking: “The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.” Netflix then projected losing ten times as much - 2,000,000 subscribers - in the April-June period due in part to woke activists they hired going on a woke programming binge. Netflix leadership suddenly realized what the left has been feeding them isn’t health food—it’s cyanide.
In the interest of self preservation, Netflix ended it’s love affair with Wokeism by laying-off 150 employees they hired to work on woke programming and issued a memo to its staff rebuking censorship:
It wasn’t just leftist personnel who were shown the door. A whole lineup of woke programming was terminated. Meghan Markle’s doomed animation Pearl (based on Meghan herself), “Antiracist Baby” and “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” and two adaptions by Critical Race Theory expert Dr. Ibram X. Kendi”. All gone because it finally became apparent that NO ONE wants what the Left is selling.
https://amac.us/netflixs-woke-warning/
Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 and their stock crashed 37 percent on one day. Even Elon Musk tweeted what everyone was thinking: “The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable.” Netflix then projected losing ten times as much - 2,000,000 subscribers - in the April-June period due in part to woke activists they hired going on a woke programming binge. Netflix leadership suddenly realized what the left has been feeding them isn’t health food—it’s cyanide.
In the interest of self preservation, Netflix ended it’s love affair with Wokeism by laying-off 150 employees they hired to work on woke programming and issued a memo to its staff rebuking censorship:
"As employees we support the principle that Netflix offers a diversity of stories, even if we find some titles counter to our own personal values. Depending on your role, you may need to work on titles you perceive to be harmful. ‘If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you."
It wasn’t just leftist personnel who were shown the door. A whole lineup of woke programming was terminated. Meghan Markle’s doomed animation Pearl (based on Meghan herself), “Antiracist Baby” and “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You,” and two adaptions by Critical Race Theory expert Dr. Ibram X. Kendi”. All gone because it finally became apparent that NO ONE wants what the Left is selling.
https://amac.us/netflixs-woke-warning/
Mindful · 56-60, F
@PatKirby Elon is disturbingly unbalanced and unfortunately does represent the unWOKE population, and lives in his own socio economic bubble, so I would NOT look to HIM for guidance on anything. Better off looking to Trump for social clarity. At least Trump can read a crowd. musk … only has one crowd he reads and the rest he just talks at.
PatKirby · M
@Mindful
Thanks but no thanks to your backhanded compliment which obviates your professional jealousy. Elon Musk has been doing, and will continue doing, just fine without your unsolicited envy.
You can take that virtue signaling and stick it where the sun won't shine, like under your simping pillow. Adiós muchacho.
Thanks but no thanks to your backhanded compliment which obviates your professional jealousy. Elon Musk has been doing, and will continue doing, just fine without your unsolicited envy.
You can take that virtue signaling and stick it where the sun won't shine, like under your simping pillow. Adiós muchacho.