Posted on 04/20/2022 1:57:21 PM PDT by Signalman
Netflix is presently being ruined by the “virus” of wokeness, according to the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.
Musk Hammers It Home on Wokeness Musk declared it is the “woke mind virus,” which is simply “making Netflix unwatchable.”
His diagnosis came after Netflix’s own quarterly report, showing in the first quarter of 2022, the company lost 200,000 subscribers.
The report, which also forecasts the loss of another two million subscribers by the end of June, caused Netflix shares to tank by 25%.
Over the years, Netflix has been increasingly criticized for the wokeness of its productions, but over the past one to two years, many are viewed as “unwatchable”, in Elon Musk’s wording.
Wokeness seeks to achieve communism’s eternally evil goal of “class warfare” and the destruction of capitalism, freedom, and democracy.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s diagnosis of Netflix’s decline came as he was replying to a tweet about the appalling performance of the streaming service.
After Musk posted the tweet about Netflix being pummeled by “the woke mind virus”, one of his millions of followers replied the “woke mind virus” is actually nothing short of the “biggest threat to civilization.”
Musk is presently trying to take over Twitter, one of the top “social media” censorship platforms of the informal alliance between Big Tech and the Biden administration.
The Twitter board rejected Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer, but he is still seeking other paths to achieve his goal. He is the company’s largest shareholder with 9.2%, which he bought earlier this month for $3 billion.
Netflix is Blind to Wokeness Amid Decline A huge part of Elon Musk’s agenda in seeking to take over Twitter is to crack down on wokeness.
Wokeness has seen the banning of former President Trump, while radical Islamist terrorists who are promoting the West’s destruction, such as the Taliban and even more radical factions, have been allowed to keep a far-reaching presence.
As an attempt to beat back its troubles, Netflix, being the self-defeating victim of wokeness, is mulling the introduction of advertisements and measures to try to stem password sharing.
Its new approach is presently being tested in three Latin American nations – Costa Rica, Peru, and Chile.
Netflix estimates there are about 10 million households who use other people’s accounts for accessing the streaming service, thus evading the subscription fee.
The streaming company itself made no mention whatsoever of wokeness as a core cause of its seeming decline.
Instead, it blamed the ending of the COVID-19 pandemic measures.
Netflix also blamed people’s different respective mindsets, along with the growing cost of living, presently accelerated by the Russian war against Ukraine.
Finally, Netflix also laid blame at the feet of rival platforms, such as Apple TV, Disney+, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, and Now TV.
And it is the picture for that program that nearly made me puke—a religous Dear Leader type picture.
Older shows have better writing and character development.
They actually understand story arc.
And I wouldn’t be bothered with the race of voice actors in historical pieces...
I also don’t mind creative twists on things. “Hamlet” set in China in the Ming Dynasty? Peter Pan with all females? The Lord of the Rings in the Congo? Sure. Just present it as such. “The Nutcracker” in 1920s Harlem? I can enjoy different takes.
What I don’t like is when they straightfacedly pretend that race was not an issue at the time; that it was normal say for aboriginals to be in the Russian Tsar’s family or whatever. Ludicrous.
Netflix had several excellent Scandinavian shows. Nobel, Occupied and Herrens Veje (English: The Lord’s Ways), entitled Ride Upon the Storm in English.
https://tracystravelsintime.com/2021/06/02/nordic-noir-netflix/
agreed.
wish there was a chat about shows site here at FR. They couldn’t get a book site going either.
Netflx is woke??? Huh??? I thought all that LGBQT and Women and Black genre listings were so people would know what not to watch.
Seriously, there are a few good shows on there, but I stopped watching some shows when they crammed obligatory queers into the story line.
You’re kidding. Who cares what the skin color of the ballerina playing Klara is?!? Denying a young girl the chance to play the role because of her race?? That’s insane. Skin color doesn’t affect the story at all.
Apparently that report 'leaked' before their quarterly announcement. Woo boy. Nice little profit from shorting them, just wish I'd have figured out the knock-on effect it had on Hulu, Disney, Paramount, Roku and more. The big names in streaming all took a haircut today. As damn' well they should.
Want to increase your profits? LOWER YOUR PRICES! The reason account sharing is so popular is becuase gas, food and other prices are skyrocketing and disposable income for streaming services is shrinking.
DUH. Dumbasses.
Thanks for the link. I’d actually like to watch a couple of them.
I went to Iceland in 2017 and it was amazingly beautiful.
The people were super kind as well.
So, I would definitely watched Trapped and Ragnarok.
I wouldn’t like it if it was called Hamlet and placed in the Ming Dynasty! Hamlet conjures up an image. I generally don’t like modern renditions of an of Shakespeare’s plays. If I’m watching any of Shakespeare’s plays; I want to watch as it as if I’m a groundling or an Elizabethan noble in the audience. I want that feel and I want that look otherwise I will not enjoy it! If they use the plot and call it something else fine; like West Side Story which is basically Romeo and Juliet.
Spoiler alert: In Ozark the gay characters were unlikeable and didn't last long.
It absolutely is. An agenda of pushing smut into the mainstream - throwing porn into the middle of shows promoted as normal programming.
Game of Thrones had a multiracial cast that worked. The residents of Westeros where all white people, except Dorne, where they cast Latinos. This made sense if you looked at a Euro-fied version of George R.R. Martin's map where Dorne filled in for Spain. Swarthy actors were used for Dothrakis, you'd find black actors in the city of Qarth, and various racially-ambiguous actors were cast as the Unsullied. It didn't look forced or require a suspension of disbelief.
I usually don’t waste my time replying to posts of this sort but I shall do so for other readers on this threat. As I said which you obviously did not grasp, the story is BASED IN 18th/19th century Germany and thus one wants to evoke the period and its customs and zeitgeist. Do you get that? I didn’t think so.
Anyway, please don’t bother me again with any replies.
Exactly!
Do not miss Nobel or occupied. Occupied plays as leftist gone mad. Excellent
Ride upon the storm and occupied seemed to me to be both about religion and overstepping
Thank you, I’ll definitely check them out.
It is way too woke. It’s unwatchably woke. Just canceled my subscription. They only send me recommendations for crappy crap I can watch for free if I watched BET
Middle aged white women - color me surprised
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