#and gdi netflix stop trying to underpay your workers

[equalseleventhirds]

#I mean#This was kinda Netflix’s business model#when they first started#but it wasn’t profitable long term#or not ’profitable enough’ (via @banans13)

it was not, for two reasons:

netflix started as a service to mail you (and eventually stream) other people's content, bcos everyone hated blockbuster's late fees lol

netflix fucking pioneered the 'canceling successful shows after two seasons' model, because they way they structure, release, calculate ratings, and pay for shows is drastically different than the way traditional tv does it. shows are usually more expensive for them in the third or fourth season, even when wildly successful, in a way that traditional tv was not; shows used to be canceled largely based on lack of viewership, and the ideal with most was something like 6 seasons (or more, for soap opera type things, which run much longer)

netflix has, in the past, on occasion, 'rescued' shows that were canceled for viewership or content reasons (eg the home network considered them too controversial or w/e). these seem to have pretty much gone for one or two seasons before being cancelled again, bcos netflix.

if i were an extremely wealthy owner of a television network i would shrimply pick up all the successful shows netflix and hbo and disney cancelled that ppl made petitions abt and the creators said they have more written for

and then make more seasons of them and my network's ratings would be wildly high and also it'd be baller pr or w/e