I think this article wreaks of corporate backsludge. The entire premise operates under the notion that these services are expensive to sustain and expensive to furnish.
But let’s not forget that they took the lions share of their content from pre existing IPs that were already paid for (millions times over from grossing numbers alone). They are taking the Lion King you grew up, and reselling it back to you. They’ve done this after every technological generational shift. VHS to CD to BR to Digital. Same Lion King.
Just because they want to boost profits 10,000% every quarter does not mean it’s anything more than an entirely artificial metric.
To me I read this as we need to make people more docile and accepting of the penetration. “Oh right, I guess it was always coming” is a much more flaccid mind set than being pissed over the arrogant corporate greed.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
To be fair, there is a new Lion King.
But I’d rather have the old one and understand if you forgot it on purpose.
