I’m Tired of Netflix’s Forced Diversity!
The art of butchering good stories.
Gone are those days when Netflix used to set benchmarks for bingable content.
We are not going to get another House of Card or Dark anytime soon, thanks to Netflix’s propensity to shoehorn “marginalized voices” in everything it produces these days.
The Problem With Virtue Signaling
I’m all for inclusion and diversity. Heck, I’m always rooting for marginalized communities (I’m brown!). I’d go as far as to say that I’m a lean a little left (at least in the Western sense).
When I turn on my TV after a full day at work, however, I don’t need any more lecturing. I just want some solid entertainment, which should be a no-brainer for a business like Netflix.
Get Woke, Go Broke?
Pandering to these communities has finally come back to haunt them. With stocks plummeting to unprecedented levels and subscribers leaving in droves, Netlfix finds itself in a tough spot — something it should have foreseen a long time ago.
They can blame it on password sharing as much as they want, but the recent mass layoffs paint a totally different picture.
The message is clear; if you don’t like what we stand for as a company, you can leave. It’s about time, too.
It’s time they stood up to these Twitter bullies.
A Daunting Road Ahead
Yes, these types of content might win a few Grammies. Perhaps the media outlets will lavish praise as well. But it’s not going to bolster their number of subscribers.
It's an irony that they continue to alienate White people in so many of these shows (Dear White People springs to mind), yet they expect to reach new heights and break new records every quarter.
Well, not only White people. They’ve continued producing Hinduphobic content in India as well, aggravating a large subscriber base. No wonder it’s frustrating for Netflix that they’re failing to cash in on one of the largest growing OTT markets
There you have it! Simple.
Now that their growth train has come to a grinding halt, thanks to some ramped-up competition from other tech giants, they’re beginning to see some logic.
Will they change? Perhaps. Am I counting on it? No.
