Who does actually watch this shit? - On streaming platforms fatigue

[Ewan McGregor]

I keep listening about this and that show and there are just too many of them, and they all look so shitty.

Is there anyone actually watching them? How is the huge volume of 'content' and the excessive amount of platform offer profitable in any way?

I admit that I am not subscribed to any nor do I live near anyone that even remotely cares about platforms content or TV shows.

I know that white chicks are obsessed with Netflix and so are millenials with arrested development and zoomers with no job but for real most of the people I know don't watch any movies or platform content because they're either working too much or have a family or whatever.

So, what's the actual situation of this? Do people actually subscribe to all the platforms? Do they consoom by platform or by product? How many people are actually watching stuff? ANyone here who, unlike me, doesn't live in 2008?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Do people actually subscribe

I don't. Yar har, me matey!

Do they consoom by platform or by product?

Yes.

How many people are actually watching stuff?

Too many.

 

[Sparky Lurker]

People who watch current year digital entertainment are not different from people that watch current year sports and play current year videogames, unless you are OP, the ultimate brightest being in the universe who wastes his life away reading about current year retards on a forum full of them.

 

[Idiotron]

this and that show

Would be much better if you specified what the hell you're talking about.

 

[pork and beans]

watching them

depends. big budget shows like stranger things DO get bingewatched and then forgotten until the next season drops. but the other shows that are kinda just there i think do get watched... but by the same people who wouldve watched normal tv 24/7 before streaming services.

people actually subscribe to all the platforms

yes

How many people are actually watching stuff

not that many. i think there's a huge ammount of people that pay for streaming services to watch a couple of shows at most and don't even use it that much but dont cancel the subscription "just in case".

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

How is the huge volume of 'content' and the excessive amount of platform offer profitable in any way?

They're not.

 

[Ewan McGregor]

Would be much better if you specified what the hell you're talking about.

If I open any entertainment outlet I will read about a bunch of shows that I'm told are being absolute blockbusters everyone's watching, yet I've never heard of them up until I read that article, let alone know that they're in their 4th or 5th season.

I don't know anyone actually watching Ahsoka, I don't know anyone actually watching any of all these nigger shows that keep popping out. I know people who would watch Mandalorian, or Rings of Power or House of Dragon for some sort of nerd cred, but I don't think many people has kept watching those past first season.

I hear soys gushing about Stranger Things, and indeed that shitty show is the only thing that gets closer to the phenomenon Game of Thrones once was, but I don't see any particular IP drawing people the way IPs used to draw people.

My impression is that the entertainment industry is withering, I just opened the post to see if anyone else feels this way or I'm just out of touch.

 

[pork and beans]

My impression is that the entertainment industry is withering,

absolutely agree. in general the quality is so so bad. theres no spirit or heart in the writing or the cinematography and its as if theyve got monkeys on typewriters and cameras LOL.

Spoiler: pl

I started watching a random show from like 20 years ago that was supposed to be not that good and its still better than the average popular netflix show.

people have definitely noticed but nothing seems to be changing.

 

[starborn427614]

I imagine some of them are tax write-offs.

 

[skykiii]

people have definitely noticed but nothing seems to be changing.

Because the entertainment industry is basically a perpetual motion machine. A lot of the players are so big that they don't even really have to be good at it--they can throw billions at several failures and still keep afloat because they're just that big. Plus that there's not any real competition (since all these companies are basically the same), people who get bored will eventually have to go with the trash simply because its all they've got.

If you want the trash gone, pay for a bombing lightning strike.

 

[Idiotron]

If I open any entertainment outlet I will read about a bunch of shows that I'm told are being absolute blockbusters everyone's watching, yet I've never heard of them up until I read that article, let alone know that they're in their 4th or 5th season.

That's because the entertainment industry is bigger and more fragmented than it ever was, there's a lot of stuff being made and even though a show can have 25 million viewers, outside of those numbers it can be virtually unknown unless someone talks about it in your social media feed.
Take that western show Yellowstone with Kevin Costner.
It's the most popular TV show in the US but you wouldn't know it because the demographics that watch it don't walk about it on social media.

I don't know anyone actually watching Ahsoka, I don't know anyone actually watching any of all these nigger shows that keep popping out. I know people who would watch Mandalorian, or Rings of Power or House of Dragon for some sort of nerd cred, but I don't think many people has kept watching those past first season.

Well, Rings of Power and House of the Dragon don't have 2nd seasons yet.
Ahsoka was a flop by all metrics.
These fantasy shows don't draw people in like they used to, the fad is definitely on the decline.

I hear soys gushing about Stranger Things, and indeed that shitty show is the only thing that gets closer to the phenomenon Game of Thrones once was, but I don't see any particular IP drawing people the way IPs used to draw people.

ST is quite popular indeed.
Personally, I only liked season 1.
Problem with a lot of shows is that they clearly only have an idea for 1 season and then, if it gets really popular, they just make shit up to keep it going for as long as possible.

My impression is that the entertainment industry is withering, I just opened the post to see if anyone else feels this way or I'm just out of touch.

Entertainment industry is doing really well but these days, TV and movies are competing with video games and internet content creators and that's a really difficult battle to win.
More kids know who some random streamer is than whatever the current hip movie star is.
Times have changed.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

At least from my observations, people don't so much watch new shows for the sake of broadening their horizons, as much as have something to talk about with friends/work. Modern media is disposable and almost none of it will be left in a decade, especially shows without physical releases.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Bot accounts which lead to inflated numbers.

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

My impression is that the entertainment industry is withering, I just opened the post to see if anyone else feels this way or I'm just out of touch.

Hollywood is losing its iron grip on the pop culture landscape due to it beating people over the head with the Blackrock-funded diversity, inclusion, and equity bullshit. Here's a post I made about the catastrophic viewer numbers for Disney+ Star Wars shows. Even the new season of Loki has less than half the number of downloads as the first season. Then you have 45% of Youtube views are from TVs which should make every studio executive shit their pants because a guy with less than a few thousand bucks and a some free time can get more views than a streaming show that costs $150 million or more for six to eight episodes.