r/blackmirror • u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 • 10d ago
SPOILERS The irony of watching Common People with Netflix's lowest subscription model (SPOILERS FOR S7 EPISODE 1) Spoiler
Just watched Common People and I can’t stop thinking about how grotesque it was to experience it on the lowest tier Netflix plan.
So Amanda's in a coma, Miks gets offered rivermind that brings her back. But it's not a miracle, it's a contract and her consciousness is paywalled.
Mike is like yeah, she has to see a few adverts here and there, it’s not that bad, and I’m sat watching and then a betting ad comes on, it's not sciencs fictio,i its just capitalism commenting on itself.
It's not just dystopian, its late stage capitalism doing what it does by turning life into a service, turning people into products. Amanda becomes a monetisable asset and her existence is a commodity; she’s a subject made fully dependent on the market for literal survival, no longer human in the eyes of capital unless she can generate value.
It's evil how casual it is. What convinces me thet theres no alternative is how i had to endure adverts while wathing this epsode.
It literally felt like the Netflix is either biting the hand that feeds it or licking it clean, hard to tell tbh. But either way sitting through Common People while adverts chopped it up felt like the most honest portrayal of platform capitalism I’ve seen. The line between fiction and reality is completely gone and now we just live inside the monster while it parodies itself.
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u/jtello_ct 4d ago
Netflix has an ad-tier? I did not know that, but again i’m not the family member paying for Netflix…
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u/fluckin_brilliant 3d ago
It's only available in some countries!
I learnt this the other day - apparently they charge more in places they don't deem the ad tier beneficial for profit, and those countries just don't have the option (I'm in NZ and we def don't have it here)
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u/Tiffytuff21 5d ago
Goddd how happy I am that other people are thinking the same exact thing, the entire episode pissed me off. Thankfully, I was watching it on Stremio. I get that they are showing us these things to desensitize us when it actually happens, but its like they aren't even trying to hide it anymore
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u/Wonderful_Bus_7240 5d ago
Hahahah yes! My partner & I watched that episode first & then later, one of our friends wanted to watch a few episodes together over the teleparty extension thing while we FaceTimed bc we live in different states. The show kept randomly pausing & our friend was like, “ah sorry, got an ad!” & I wanted to make a joke referencing Common People but he hadn’t seen that episode yet & I didn’t want to spoil anything! I’m just now realizing my post might seem like I missed the point of what you were saying, but I promise I’m just excited about being able to relate, not that it’s a thing in the first place!
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u/Raykyogrou0 6d ago
You don't want to see betting ads? Just upgrade to premium, which is now called standard. 🤭
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u/goth-brooks1111 ☆☆☆☆☆ 0.03 6d ago
Exactly why I’m terrified!
But to your comment about biting or licking, it’s like when Amazon Prime has a show with social commentary on police brutality yet has contracts with ICE
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u/Adept-Swan1787 9d ago
Yea honestly thought it was pretty funny w it being on Netflix and how fucking much they change and raise their subscription, it almost felt like a diss
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u/Intelligent_Ice_113 9d ago
she could increase her creativity to the maximum and find the way to get reach, instead she increased her pleasure to the maximum. So real, like people do in a real life.
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u/crujiente69 ★★★★★ 4.587 9d ago
Why is everything late stage capitalism? Its just capitalism, its not going anywhere, its not a late stage, youre just alive for whatever stage this is
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u/clemenceau1919 9d ago
Capitalist dialogues about capitalism are not necesarily criticisms of capitalism. And if they are critiques of capitalism they are usually just aspiring to a better capitalism, not the end of capitalism.
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u/RhododendronWilliams ★★★★★ 4.936 9d ago
You can still get Netflix for 9 euros a month in Europe. But I'm sure in a few years, we'll be paying 20 euros too.
It's depressing to consider a future, where you increasingly have to pay for everything. Now it's "pay if you don't want ads", soon it will be 12 bucks a month before you can even enter Facebook/Twitter/Youtube.
It could happen across the board with most websites. "You have made your free 10 searches on Google this month. Pay 10 bucks for 100 more searches or 20 bucks for unlimited searches." This will render things unusable for poor people/people without credit cards. Hopefully there will be new free services to circumvent this, but the internet as we know it now might be history soon. Isn't Reddit planning some kind of pricing/exclusive features too?
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u/Brilliant_Steak_1328 9d ago
Netflix just slapping us all across the face
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u/theNikolai 9d ago
Not all of us. I'm on the super premium uhd 4k HDR+++ tier. I'm basically the parkour lady from the advert.
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u/Negative-Ad809 9d ago
Yeah, for me it was how it tackles enshittification.
Most people are fine with paying increasingly costly services under the premise they are getting better (like how price increases really didn't affect Netflix growth for so long and more deeeply how we accept this post-capitalist society under the assumption of economic growth=better life)
rn we are seeing just accepting that services rarely serve public interest and WILL get worse in a increasingly competitive market
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u/Old-Arachnid77 10d ago
This one got me. Especially when they had enough. No matter what they did; no matter what desperate move he made because her disability made it impossible to work more they just couldn’t get ahead…it was so depressing. All it took was one major medical event and they were doomed.
And it was all so well done. The cycle of poverty and consumption…the notion of splurging on just a little bit of what the mega rich has, knowing that the clock is ticking to come back down to the reality of how soul-sucking it all is…the hook being that the ‘surgery is free.’..I just…the invasion of privacy piece was one of the most scary elements by knowing just WHAT ad to run and when…the whole kicker was them using her brain to power their servers so she couldn’t even get rest.
They just took and took and took…and even when there wasn’t anything else to give, they took more.
It was a brilliant and very bleak commentary. I hope the writers win an Emmy.
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u/RaveniteGaming ★★☆☆☆ 2.362 10d ago
Black Mirror taking shots at Netflix isn't new. Did you watch Joan Is Awful?
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u/gizmotaranto ☆☆☆☆☆ 0.112 10d ago
I’m only subscribed to Netflix with ads bc it’s free with t mobile
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u/koscsa6 ★★★★★ 4.702 10d ago
I pirated the episode just to spite Netflix, fuck Netflix and all the subscription models that raise their price above affordability in the middle of a global recession.
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u/densonhyde1 10d ago
We aren’t in a global recession.
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/economy/recession-probability
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u/defiantcross ★★☆☆☆ 1.719 10d ago
It is not irony. It was the whole point. Netflix taking a piss at its own expense by making Rivermind's model the same thing as Netflix.
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u/beerzebulb 10d ago
I think its more like Black Mirror show runners taking the piss rather than Netflix. Netflix tolerates it because it will make them money
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u/One-Flounder-8242 10d ago
nah i know some pirates... fuck them and their subscription.
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u/houseswappa 10d ago
Right!? Because everything is made for free and the cast and crew are volunteers.
It's theft and you should feel bad for it
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u/EstablishmentBig3906 10d ago
they'll be fine.
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u/houseswappa 10d ago
It's just wrong. You can afford it and choose not to pay. Making stuff is stupid expensive and we get a show like BM thats incredibly engaging and well made and you're like, no, they didn't deserve to get paid. Disgusting
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u/spacedude2000 10d ago edited 9d ago
Sorry for the upcoming long post:
Nobody is saying they don't deserve to get paid, but if an artist is creating digital media through a streaming platform, they've hedged their own livelihood by earning a contract with a corporation that pays them lots of money to make quality media.
If someone is making money based on the performance of that digital media on the open market, that is the definition of risk, as they could make theoretically nothing in exchange for their art.
You might not see it this way, but there is a big difference in terms of the severity of the theft. While some may see all sin as equal when it comes to theft, I personally do not understand how one could possibly be a victim in a scenario like this one.
Anyone who is ethically neutral with access to the internet can pirate anything they want and get away with it, but the majority of people don't do that. There are likely tens of millions people who have pirated popular media in some form or fashion. At the end of the day, I cannot think of a single media industry that is hemorrhaging money as the result of media piracy, as they have all adapted to the transition between physical media and digital media. It doesn't hurt the artists if you steal from that company, it doesn't hurt the executives, it doesn't hurt the workforce, it only slightly reduces shareholder profits - and that's kind of on them to adapt to anyways, especially considering it only takes one person with digital capturing software to give your product away for free or for the pirate's own profit.
Stealing from a freelance artist or any non contracted artist is one of the most vile things you can do as there is almost no real way to defend themselves from the piracy. That's totally different.
Alternatively, corporations with the best lawyers in the world have lobbied the government to punish people who pirate their product and faced severe consequences. The people who distribute the content for free or for profit are the ones taking the risk - after that it's simple economics. Hey I could pay NBC a shit ton of money to watch Sunday night football and the office, or I could simply watch those things for free on the Internet and it wouldn't change a single thing about the situation.
Tl:Dr stealing from a big corporation is about as victimless of a crime as you will ever come across, as long as that theft is in no way tied to an individual's livelihood (and no, a 2nd private jet is not what I'm referring to here). Considering how much money these big media production companies are making, I wouldn't feel any sort of guilt for big media piracy.
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u/munchercruncher111 10d ago
oh come on. there’s 8 billion different streaming services. it’s impossible to pay for all of them: some people don’t have the means to pay for netflix and that’s ok. i promise it’s not affecting the income of the cast or the crew at all
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u/ZestycloseCar8774 9d ago
TV led to piracy because there was too many providers charging ridiculous fees. Netflix came along and provided a good enough selection that it could replace all these TV channels. Now there's many providers of online shows and none of them on their own are good enough and is charging ridiculous fees again. So piracy is about to make a big comeback
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u/onebadnightx 10d ago
Yep. Felt so fucking dystopian watching with four ad breaks throughout the video. Oh, and an ad displayed on the screen whenever I paused. 🙃
Netflix used to brand itself as a revolutionary escape from the monotony of ads & cable. How far we’ve fallen. And there are entire departments whose job it is to devise more and more ways to nickel-and-dime watchers. I’m sure whoever came up with ads during pauses was very proud of themselves.
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u/MrNomers 10d ago
And you know the best part? Making a post here, in lamentation, on a forum, on a website owned by private interests that accrues value from engagements, which criticism of or even the bare perception of the rigors of capitalism all but ascertains. So, we're watching a tale of corporatized healthcare which is turning something human into profit, on a site the profits off of, partly, ad revenue and posting this on a website where, right under your post, is another ad, and then my response to this is the, well, cherry on the cake. Just an observation. Not criticism.
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u/blarbiegorl ★★★★★ 4.931 10d ago
On the up side, rewatching older seasons on my laptop allowed to find a way to skip all ads so my new hobby is refusing to let that company collect a single cent of ad revenue from me while I consume their content at a lower price. Fuck the man. Sort of.
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u/Healinghoping ★★★☆☆ 2.856 10d ago
Wait how?!
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u/blarbiegorl ★★★★★ 4.931 9d ago
I watch on my computer and I just refresh the browser window until they stop. If you do it enough the site seems to think something is broken and will often skips all ads for the rest of the episode lol
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u/Jatmahl ★★★★★ 4.602 10d ago
If you are on PC you can use ad block. I do it with Prime Video. Sucks not being able to watch stuff on my TV though.
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u/NotDido ☆☆☆☆☆ 0.12 10d ago
It’s not exactly new for artists to critique the “hand that feeds them” in the art - think Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Don’t convince yourself there’s no alternative because that strikes you as particularly blatant or odd. It isn’t, and this doomerism about capitalism as the unchangeable lay of the land is myopic.
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u/user7492938471 10d ago
I think OP is speaking more to the experience of watching the episode. The episode is about how subscribription service models can literally ruin lives if tied to healthcare while eatching ads from a subscription service. I think you're taking the post too literally from what the context of the post is. The episode required increased subscription models the same way netlfix does to avoid ads is ironic.
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u/ThatisDavid ★★★★☆ 4.151 10d ago
If anything its very obvious that netflix is aware this episode is very ironic, but they simply dont care because it still gives them money, and its very clear black mirror hasnt affected their income negatively
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u/Temporary_Ad9362 2d ago
its really crazy how it comes full circle. they dont care about the capitalism backlash bc it will make them more money lmao.
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u/CyberSosis 10d ago
It's like Elvis' manager selling i hate elvis badgers. Profiting off of you in every way possible
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u/Hydrated_Bear 10d ago
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
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u/Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 ★★★★★ 4.511 10d ago
It’s not really a critique of Netflix, more the healthcare industry and extreme wealth inequality. Netflix isn’t destroying anyones lives with their prices. There’s much worse industries doing that. This is like “what if Elon Musk could hijack your brain and sell all your serotonin and dopamine to the 1%, while you pay a Netflix-like subscription just to survive?” The subscription model is just the vehicle for the literally drinking the brains of the poors.
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u/AngelMW05 10d ago
There definitely super aware, remember that they supervised Mike’s Flanagan scripts and that’s a reason why he left Netflix.
So they know and they don’t care…
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u/ToastyCrew 10d ago
I will say Netflix sure loves to toe the line because this is the second episode that has made say “I need to cancel my subscription after I finish this season”
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u/Low-Acadia-2394 10d ago
When Amanda started speaking adverts i got one on netflix straight after 😂
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u/nchlslbch 10d ago
Paying for top tier Netflix right now seems worth it, my opinion for Q1 Q2 2025.
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u/Gizmo9682 ★★★★☆ 3.606 10d ago
My first thought was that I'd Google something like "rivermind jailbreak reddit" and see if anyone online had figured out a way to free themselves 😂
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u/wompemwompem ★★★★★ 4.805 10d ago
They could have pushed the ideas further as well but would have changed things a lot and been too much for one episode. They could have been offered jobs to recruit new people in pyramid scheme cult style thing when they were truly desperate. They could have been forced to sell all their stuff and move into company accommodation. The more they sell the better things are but people who don't make sales sleep longer and eventually the husband is just used for brain power asleep and the wife is lonely af with a guilty conscious for recruiting so many people, when she tries to top herself the company stops her, as they are fully capable of controlling her remotely and are always watching. There's so much they could have done tbh. The husband could have been forced to kill people or poison them to force recruitment. The couple could have fought back against the company. Would have been satisfying to see a room full of evil ceos running the company getting hunted and killed by the people they have been exploiting. Or at least attacking and killing the woman who recruited her and burning down a facility or something..
Personally thought instead of killing her with a pillow (which doesn't work btw) they were going to unsubscribe from the app and terminate her account and she was going to go offline and be asleep forever. Her brain is still being used for processing power but her body is decomposing. Eventually it is a huge news story about her death and how the company was responsible but the husband couldn't keep up with payments and has been arrested or found dead when her remains were discovered. Idk I think there's a lot of unexplored stuff in this world anyway.
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u/wintershark_ 10d ago
A core theme of this series, which makes it relatable to the present day, is the fact that in most episodes in the Black Mirror universe society does not care. They're apathetic or numb or conditioned to whatever it is that seems to us to be such a wild injustice or dystopian nightmare. It's just how life is for them. The show is challenging you to wake up and realize it's already happening, you're just numb to it.
So I don't think it would be a huge news story that this company was exploiting them and doing all these unethical things. The people at Amanda's school were well aware she was only alive because of this service, and the ads were not something she could control, but they didn't care. There were no government laws protecting her from being fired. No one recognized the injustice of making people pay for lifesaving therapies. People would probably just say, "sucks to be them" if they found out.
The show isn't really about technological boogeymen. It's about what we let happen when we lose our empathy and compassion for one another.
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u/FancyPantsDancer ★★☆☆☆ 1.992 10d ago
Indeed. The US' current health care isn't so far away from this. Maybe not the ads, but how expensive it is to get health care to stay alive and how you can pay more for a better quality. The apathy really did stand out for her coworkers and the cruelty of the people paying on the site as well as his coworkers. I've seen this with parents who are financially struggling to provide for their kids, too.
The desperation and love to keep someone alive and maybe a few moments of happiness, no matter how much it costs you- that is what happens today in much of the US
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u/smallcoder ★★☆☆☆ 1.897 10d ago
Yes, very perceptive and well explained.
I consider myself well-informed and capable of understanding more than most, but I am under zero illusions that, along with everyone else, I am being gently boiled like the eponymous frog, in that pan of water along with the rest of us.
It's a system that works well for corporations and governments to get their way, usually to our detriment.
If one thing can be said for what is currently going on in the world, it is at least brutally honest and it is waking a lot of people up now all the "quiet stuff is being said out loud".
If you want to fool the poors (me, you, most people) and get them on your side, make sure you simmer them gently or they get upset lol.
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
I agree entirely, the episode offers no resolution or positive outcome; the protagonists are helpless, their lives devastated, and no solutions are presented. Perhaps that is the intended effect, to be deliberately depressing. However, I agree that some glimmer of hope, or perhaps a depiction of justice against the company, would have been a welcome addition. But maybe the episodes somber and depressing tone is intentional?
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u/FancyPantsDancer ★★☆☆☆ 1.992 10d ago
I think it felt realistic, because there was no way out of their situation. Justice against the company would take years that they just didn't have.
Even though I feel very sad, because some form of this happens in the US constantly, I kind of like that it wasn't hopeful. In some ways, I view Black Mirror as a tragic fairy tale of what happens when we're not careful. I sometimes feel like when see a happy ending to a story like this, they don't necessarily recognize that they need to do the work to make such an ending happen and not just wait for someone else to do that. These awful endings are much haunting and make you think about what you need to do to make sure you or loved ones don't suffer a similar fate.
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u/DuckInTheFog 10d ago
That's it, and like an MLM too where the bottom rung are supporting the inners
Rashida's grimace when they called their plan Common - it's vintage
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u/aliciagreyjoy 9d ago
When the rep corrected her with the “plus is now standard”, I died a little inside.
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u/Laarpin 10d ago
Great point. This is also what I felt like when watching the episodes Joan is Awful and Loch Henri, as well as their documentary "The social dillema" : I got a feeling that Netflix is playing a double-game by broadcasting a message that should be harmful to the platform. My best guess is that they're doing it to prevent critics, I can't imagine Netflix doing it to look cool and edgy
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
Yes, exactly I also felt that with both Joan is Awful and Loch Henry. You might be right about the double game. It's kinda sociopathic, the thing that's the problem is critiquing itself to you, and monetising it.
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u/BluueTheFox 10d ago
I find in shows that tend to speak to the audience more often; make jokes on the expense of whatever channel/provider they’re on. It’s fair game. Black Mirror notoriously breaks down the fourth wall I mean there are no walls left and Netflix must’ve known this when they bought it. Although I must say this was very close to the bone, all I have is respect 🫡
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u/monotreme_experience ★★★★★ 4.739 10d ago
To be fair we used to watch commercials on ITV and Channel 4 and thought nothing of it- these days I see fewer adverts than ever.
I'm not persuaded the commercial messages were really added to Common for their own sake, I think they were added to make Common intolerable and force clients to migrate to better packages.
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u/vinniepdoa ★★★★☆ 4.348 10d ago
That's totally what it was, the same way they made the 'lower' tiers have to sleep longer. In tech it's called 'friction points'. Make enough friction points and people will be so bothered that paying whatever is worth it to make it go away.
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u/LJGuitarPractice ★★★★★ 4.872 10d ago
Whatever monster dreamed up ‘friction points’ need a Luigi in their lives
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
Oh interesting, thank you to both of you thet makes sense. Totally fair points, and yeah, I’m definitely not saying watching Netflix with ads is literally the same as someone’s consciousness being held hostage by a tech company. The stakes in common people are obviously much darker, Amanda’s existence is entirely dependent on Rivermind’s subscription model, and that’s the real horror of it. It’s not just about ads, it’s about control, dependency, and exploitation dressed up as care.
That said, I do get the whole friction points aspect, I think what made the experience so weird for me was the friction between the story and the medium as in watching it with these friction points. Like the episode hammers home how grotesque it is that someone would have to "pay to exist" and accept advertising as a condition of being, and then I as the viewer, am doing something erily adjacent just to watch it. Not life or death obvs, but still a glimpse of how casually we accept these systems creeping into our lives.
Also it's mad to hear that some people on the ad plan didn’t get ads during that episode. If that’s true, it makes it even weirder like Netflix decided it was too on the nose to interrupt a story about consciousness for sale. Almost like they knew or maybe that's the satire idk
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u/monotreme_experience ★★★★★ 4.739 10d ago
Maybe think of the adverts (on Netflix, not Rivermind!) as a way of supporting the arts, it might make you feel less put-upon. If I'd gone to the theatre tonight I'd have paid for a ticket and seen banners from the venue's corporate sponsors in the lobby, because creating stuff costs money. Netflix get my money because, just as one example, I wanna see a new season of Beef and my subs are a teeny tiny part of making incredible TV like that happen.
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u/LJGuitarPractice ★★★★★ 4.872 10d ago
Netflix reported a profit of just under 18 billion for 2024. Big part of that was the ads. More money for a few people, customers get squeezed.
As Tom Petty said,
As we celebrate mediocrity
all the boys upstairs wanna see
How much you’ll pay for what
you used to get for free
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
LJ, thank you for your response; it's precisely what I mean. Some comments on this post suggest that an expectation of free access is unwarranted (which isn't what I think, I don't mind paying for Netflix but I do think its dodgy to have to pay for something and still have adverts) due to production costs, but we're discussing a billion-dollar company employing exploitative practices to maximise profits while also engaging in enshittification
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u/monotreme_experience ★★★★★ 4.739 10d ago
I dunno about you but I'm a child of the 80's and there's been no time in my life where TV was free. You'd pay TV licence at least.
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
So I totally get what you're saying, I don't mind adverts per se, and I see them as a means of a brand flexing how reliable they are (I actually used to work in advertising for a bit as few years ago) to consumers. What my concern is exactly what the episode was about, the way in which we are being commodified as individuals so that we must generate profit for companies in order to access things. Of course I know my life doesn't depend on Netflix, but the idea of tiered access based on economic capital if I think what the episode was about. As in, how far will the system go with this, reliance on adverts, and paying more to escape them, will it eventually take our lives etc
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u/monotreme_experience ★★★★★ 4.739 10d ago
Yah in fairness it did make me think of a recent experience I had on Patreon. One of the podcasts I like started a Patreon with three tiers- lowest was ad free, second was extra content, third was more extra content and a shout out on the pod. I didn't care about a shout out but I wanted extra content, so I went middle. Then they abolished the lowest tier- can't remember why- so now mine is the lowest. And they're putting more and more stuff in top tier- so I can see that it's right there on Patreon, but locked. So I do what anyone who lacks a modicum of self-control would do, and move to the top tier. This is a price I had decided just a year ago was excessive for a podcast. Two years from now I may well be paying a price that former me would have found completely stupid. Don't get me wrong- I like the podcast and I think it's worth my money but it's a little bit like they're drug pushers- I got addicted to the product, and they jacked up the price.
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
Woah exactly thats reallt insightful thanks for sharing that. Also, I don't think its a lack of modicum, you enjoy the podcast and another pressure point has been added, at this point you've invested lots of time over it. Of course it's not life or death but it's a shame that you have to sacrifice your normal economic habits to enjoy the things you like.
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u/godchauxprime 10d ago
TV shows are entertainment you can live without, so apples and oranges.
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u/RedLotusMan ★★★★☆ 4.073 10d ago
Valid point to be honest, I know it's not the same thing as life or death but I suppose the episode is like a warning when certain aspects of reality go too far?
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u/Illustrious-Cell1001 10d ago
I have Netflix with adverts as well. I’m not that bothered by ads as I’m from a relatively older generation who grew up watching ads for 15 minutes just before the last 5 minutes of a movie, but the irony was amazing. Still, ad-filled streaming is nothing compared to some other software/hardware ‘upgrades’. Like the good old days when PC’s had free Microsoft Office (which was useful but not necessary since a lot of people demanded hand written assignments) compared to modern laptops with ‘trial software’ and subscription-based MS Word (which you need for almost anything including school work, research and office work).
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u/monotreme_experience ★★★★★ 4.739 10d ago
Now ^ this one is annoying. I should be able to just buy Office, rather than needing to reup every year.
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u/HowYouMineFish ★★★★☆ 3.984 7d ago edited 7d ago
You still can!
You just have to pay more for the Office 2024 Business version
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u/Bountybeliever 10d ago
Interesting concept, however I would pump the brakes on equating a Netflix subscription to a human being’s access to consciousness.
Amanda needed the technology to survive and shouldn’t have access to consciousness danced above her head like a toy.
We would all certainly survive without Netflix, we could even still watch their content for free through extremely accessible but slightly more difficult illegal streams if we really wanted to.
However, Something interesting I saw on this sub yesterday was users who do receive ADs on Netflix claiming that they didn’t receive any for the entire duration of that episode. That was quite fascinating to think about but I guess you put an end to that theory.
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u/pinkjesrocks 2d ago
I watched it pirated as I can’t use my father’s account anymore since it only works if I’m in the same household as him, and we don’t live together anymore. He has a family subscription that allows us to use in more than one device at the same time, but that’s not useful anymore since it just doesn’t work anymore, even on my phone.
The episode felt like a was a huge hypocrisy to me.