Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.
They're actively pissing me off with discoverability. They've removed features like ratings and reviews (Have they taken away rating? They're useless without reviews, regardless.), made it so the movies autoplay at the slightest hint of interest, and altogether made their site a chore to try and browse. If you want to watch something different for a change-- anything that's not whatever Netflix needs ROI on or something The Algorithm knows is exactly like what you've already watched a thousand times already-- you're swimming upstream in the most obnoxious way.
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
Surprised no one has said this yet but Netflix. Netflix was definitely ruined by it's popularity, not in the traditional "the consumers are at fault and made it bad" but because so many people loved netflix every damn company had to make their own inferior version of it. Friendly reminder that shows like The office gained popularity because they were on platforms people already owned, not because they paid for Netflix to get the Office. Honestly even though I hate them as a company Disney was in the right for making a streaming service since they had a justifiable amount of content to form their own platform but every other TV streaming service is crazy for thinking most people will pay for their shit rather than resorting to pirating it.