...and on the next streaming-related post, the top comment will be someone complaining about shows getting cancelled.

Seriously, the predominant views on this subreddit are bafflingly contradictory; people simultaneously complain about too many quality shows being cancelled, while also espousing the idea that reducing quantity is a good thing because it means they'll focus more on "quality" (while ignoring that their definition of "quality" is obviously not the one the services are using given the shows that are being cancelled - they're effectively advocating for the services to cancel more of the shows that they do like).

In reality, reducing quantity won't increase the quality of content at all; it will actually decrease the number of quality shows by anyone's definition and will reduce the number of niches that are getting any content at all.

Because Netflix keeps canceling the actual good shows in the hopes that the next one they greenlight will be the next Stranger Things or Squid Game. The latter of which the original creator didn't even want to have a sequel in the first place.

Or they just go with semi scripted game shows and reality shows...

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> If we can't have quality & quantity, better to just have quality.

But is there any reason to believe recent shifts will lead to higher average quality? Looking at, say, HBO and Amazon's recent output, I'm skeptical.

I was about to ask which ones, then I realised you probably mean anything that it’s targeted directly at mid 20s white males.

> quality & quantity, better to just have quality

I'd rather take the quantity. Means there is a higher chance that someone takes a risk in distributing a new show and that ther eis a chance a show will appear to my tastes.

When distributors focus on quality, then they limit what they take on. And since media companies are risk averse, you get the safest, cookie cutter type media. And then you get the other distributors doing the same, needing their version of a specific hit.

Have to pay for quality talent to make those shows.... with Netflix giving away too many subscriptions, they cut-off freebies, and lost clients.

Bad. What is happening is not quality over quantity but mediocre content over anything else. AI will make scripts and people will eat garbage as it delicious meal.

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. "

Adolf Fucking Hitler

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