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by corbulo 1156 days ago
Long been there. 'Hello this is Netflix, you've been greenlit, how may I help you?' was a South Park meme years ago.
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At least they were greenlighting interesting things as well back then. Now I think the main metric that gets you greenlit is being cheap to produce.
Seems like they never heard of the paradox of choice.
Their entire business model is that there is value in the long tail of possible choices. The paradox of choice is not a complete description of human behavior.
It is outdated. Streaming is now cable, which means the business model should revert back to be cable like. Get a couple of killer titles that carry the brand... Disney is doing this well with the Marvel titles. one ends, a new one starts, and they start putting ads of the "new" thing.

In short, without quality, there is no choice.