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by nonameiguess 1529 days ago
I can't agree. Just with Netflix, they have mountains of pretty original content. As soon as something does well, it does get endlessly copied, but that doesn't change that the initial innovation is still happening. Shows like Dark, Russian Doll, Arcane, immediately had copycats, but were pretty great and different and likely never would have been made if not for Netflix's "throw money at every artist in the world and throw crap against the wall to see what sticks" content strategy.

Disney is definitely more guilty of what you're saying because they have a massive back catalog and get by mostly by buying existing IP or rebooting their own.