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@johnrogers.bsky.social has written infinity threads about how completely they broke TV, but every time I remember that we're now being held hostage to strategies this fucking counter to the creation of art people want to see, I want to lay face down in the mud for 1000 years.

Sadly the mud is now all subscription-based, but if you sign up to Mud+ With Dolby Surround Sound (With Ads) at just $24.99/mo you at least get to hear the bubbles and gurgles from all corners of the room.

I saw this out of context and thought you meant multi user dungeon and it still made sense/was bleak.

You’d think that retention would be important too.

So they bring in new people and one season later don’t care about those people because they are no longer new?!?! That is the mos ridiculous business model ever. Every sales training I’ve ever had says it’s easier to keep existing customers than constantly bring in new ones

It's not that they thought it brought new viewers. The speculation is that this show had the strongest appeal to middle age women. The think we are already Amazon Prime customers for the shipping on all the shopping we do. The Video side of Prime doesn't want to "waste" money on existing customers.

extraction capitalism is why we can't have nice things just making money by continuing to sell nice things to the people who enjoy them is no longer good enough for the rapacious greedweasels trying to pile up cash for their apocalypse bunkers