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– The_Knight_of_sunset 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

Saw this a while back and I was meaning to ask this for your analysis, but was too distracted to ask until now:

There has been a recent video discussing the details around the recent sharp decline of Disney within the past month, and especially with their fight with cable companies. This is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lY8VB_LdLk

I am particularly intrigued with the concluding thoughts at the end of the video. Here is the transcript:

Streaming companies are having to cope with the fact that, evidently, people are cutting streaming expenses, throwing up their hands, saying fuck it, and returning to cable. Could this mean a revival of the standard commercial television advertising model? If so, this could be a Godsend to all of us and to pop culture my friends because if Disney stock is any indication, streaming doesn't work any better for corporations than it does for consumers who are sick and tired of the substandard garbage being tossed out there over the airwaves.

Advertising keeps companies honest, folks. A hit show on cable is actually valuable because it brings in ad dollars which means quality rises to the top. But on streaming, a hit show is almost worthless no matter how many people watch it because it doesn't matter unless it brings in new streaming subscribers to that channel, and it almost never does does.

Do you agree or disagree with the commentator's conclusions? Because it might have challenged all of my previous viewpoints on cable's effect on creativity...

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– bubble_bursts [S] 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

I actually tend to agree with the overall conclusions. To understand why, it is important to put on the Anon glasses (with the financial filter) first.

How do you do this? Always start by asking "Where is the funding coming to this?" and that gives you the answers about anything.

In the case of streaming, do you really believe that Netflix and the rest made millions from their subscription model? Every person I knew who watched Netflix used to share an account with bunch of people.

It is also crucial to keep in mind that, in addition to the cost of creating a hit series, the cost of running the infrastructure required to stream content, at real time, 24/7 to hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously, just from the point of view of the server resources, costs millions.

We can safely conclude that, just like all the other BigTech companies, there was some hidden funding source that sustained this model. Easy to guess what itis based on the outcome - the mass brainwashing of the people. Who would be vested in this? Why of course the Intel crowd as well as the WEF crowd.

I can bet anything that a lot the server infrastructure was actually running on 3 letter agency servers. But ultimately all this funding comes from the central bank fiat currency system fraud.

What we are seeing is a controlled demolition of this financial system, and as the magic money supply starts drying up, you see all kinds of signs. Companies laying off workers. Work from home. Shutting down retail. Go woke, go broke. Defund police, defund retail. etc etc. All these are simply optics for the financial fraud system being dismantled.

If streaming services are finally dying, thats part of this as well.

Cable was funded by ad revenue, which means it was a real economy, not this fraud economy. Once streaming dies, we may return to Cable, or we may return to some other model - but it will be a real economy whic is market driven, and hence the content will reflect the desires of the people rather than brainwashing.

So the only thing I would change with the conclusion is that, even if we dont revert back to "Make cable great again", whatever the new entertainment platforms ae going to be, they will be based platforms. Cable will probably play a big part of it, but there will be reforms made there as well (I am sure before streaming, they had managed to infiltrate Cable to some extent as well and that should be cleaned up).

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