One day you’ll be able to tell your kids that you lived the golden age of streaming. You didn’t have ads. You could binge watch a whole season in a day without the service tricking episodes out once per week to try to increase user anticipation. You didn’t have increasing numbers of streaming services dividing the pie into tiny pieces such that you had to pay 5x what you used to pay for cable to watch the things you want. You didn’t subscribe to those services only to find that you needed to get a fancier membership type to watch the show you were actually interested in.
You may have missed the birth of social media. But you lived the age of excitement about ditching cable, only to watch some massively rich companies create a monster bigger and uglier than cable ever was.
One day you’ll be able to tell your kids that you lived the golden age of streaming. You didn’t have ads. You could binge watch a whole season in a day without the service tricking episodes out once per week to try to increase user anticipation. You didn’t have increasing numbers of streaming services dividing the pie into tiny pieces such that you had to pay 5x what you used to pay for cable to watch the things you want. You didn’t subscribe to those services only to find that you needed to get a fancier membership type to watch the show you were actually interested in.
You may have missed the birth of social media. But you lived the age of excitement about ditching cable, only to watch some massively rich companies create a monster bigger and uglier than cable ever was.