#streaming is terrible

[hornetvoid]

"moments like this make me glad to be awake."

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

you know that guy on tiktok who cooks gourmet meals in bed with a little instant pot? That's Fukunaga in college (ft. his roomie kenma)

[roguepen]

I’ve spent the last week watching documentaries about small town crimes on Hulu and the algorithm keeps giving me more. I also watched a couple of episodes about the Million Dollar Princesses to cleanse my pallet. Jennie Jerome Churchill was apparently more then a bit of a cougar- her second husband was only two weeks older than her son, Winston. Her third husband was three years younger than the aforementioned son. This was not knowledge I needed, but it is knowledge I now have. 

Now I’m watching a Netflix documentary about a volcanic eruption on an island off the New Zealand coast called Whakaari in 2019. 

[screamsinsilver]

when your mates absolutely need to interrupt your twitch stream with an urgent house update + the guys all trying communion wafers

i think about this clip regularly (jesse is the funniest guy in that house)

[ahappyphjl]

T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E

[suitetarts]

neil's southern us accent .... uhhhhh 😳

[marvelsmostwanted]

This is sad but unfortunately I think this is just going to be the norm for the next few years as streaming services die a slow death.

HBO Max should in theory be able to make money from a show that was at one point the top new series in the US. At the time, David Jenkins said "This is what happens when a major media company invests in inclusive mainstream stories" (agree!) but unfortunately that major media company, like all streaming services, has a terrible business model that can't support that investment.

This is an interesting article about how streaming services are losing money and scrambling to make it back by trying to convince people to buy cheaper, ad-supported options or bundling with other streaming services. Unfortunately for them, I think that's like... all of the options? At some point they're just going to continue to lose money. Making shows is expensive and very few consumers are willing to pay more when they could just cancel and use a cheaper service (or, you know. 🏴‍☠️)

This is also a good article that was written after Shadow and Bone was cancelled by Netflix about whether it could be saved:

"The problem is that while saving shows used to be plausible, at times, the cost of Shadow and Bone combined with the fact that streaming services are really, really starting to cut back on spending means that this would be an extremely tough sell. WB Discovery’s Max is being lambasted for killing finished projects for tax breaks to chip into its massive debt. Disney Plus has done the same thing and has said they will cut back on things like expensive Marvel shows. Amazon Prime is mired in expensive creator deals going nowhere and throwing insane amounts of money at projects they are realizing are not panning out. Paramount Plus losing $500 million a year. NBC’s Peacock is losing $650 million a quarter."

TLDR; Streaming services have reached such a dire point financially that they have to cancel some of their most popular content (Marvel shows on Disney+???? These have seemingly been very successful; it's wild to read that they're "cutting back") in the desperate hope that a new season of something that's cheaper to make will get more attention.

What I gathered from these articles is that steaming services are dying a slow death and sadly, a lot of good shows are going to go with them.

[darkmagenugget]

Look, I know it is a few hours late, but the idea for "make a terrible comic day" was too good. Weird al sings my labels. XD

For those that can't read it:

"In order to keep track of my growing number of labels... I brought "weird al" Yankovic to sing them."

"🎶Trans, Ace, furry, lesbian!

Plural and maybe Therian!

ADHD, autism too!

Fox Girl, Gamer, Streaming crew!

Artist with a small fixation

On Anything with transformation!🎶"

It's not all of them (Doesn't include shapeshifter for example) and doesn't include my headmates, but I just thought this was too funny of a thought with all the labels I apparently have. XD

[wolfchans]

LEE KNOW ♡ LONELY ST. LOLLAPALOOZA CHICAGO (240802)

[fictionadventurer]

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is free on tubi. You're welcome.

[knots-n-crosses45]

I love them all

dont ask..

[miisfits-toys]

I hardly make fan art but ohhhh Bucky... Bucky my friend......

Part of a series I lovingly called Barrel Beavers. How kind of The Horrors to abide by safety rules :-)!!

[skybristle]

rbs > likes

new iteratorsona ref !!!!!!!! isnt he so awesome. i didn't really change his design much i just wanted something more detailed / slightly more up to date. i really like him

[royalarchivist]

Phil: [Echoing voice] One of the OGs!

TTS: Keep going with your Spanish lessons, you're doing great and the hispanic crows appreciate that so much!

Phil: Thanks mate. Yeah I started it like, I mean– [Leans over to check something] I think I'm on like a 300+ streak now, but I started it like, around abouts the time that like, Big Q was doing his Spanish streams and stuff. I just would listen to his Spanish streams in the background, and just like, try and figure out what he was saying, 'cuz like– I was trying to think, "Well, if he says– if he's- if he's playing Minecraft, I can kind of like, understand a little bit of what he's saying." And then he was doing stuff like Karmaland and all that stuff, right, and I was like, "I think he said 'Fck you, my- it's my TNT.' Did he say- no–" and then I was like, "Did he say this?" [Laughs]

Phil: I was just basically have it as just noise in the background. [Laughs] I kind of like, understood it- what- what it was when he was like, saying things like, "No way!" or like "I'm the best!" things like that, like... Like, I would get– I would understand kind of what he was saying when he was poppin' off, and I just– yeah.

Phil: It was just like, good to have in the background. It was just something to listen to, and just kind of like... you know, hear it more? I guess? Without, you know, watching a television show. Big Q was my TV show.

[reunitedinterlude]

#TIT

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

jimmy when he's our token white guy <3