I hope Netflix customers are ready to pay for this $59 billion debt.

The first time, it's coincidence, I mean really Netflix gaming is obvious anyone could come up with the same timeframe. That one's free.

The second time is suspicious. Maybe business degrees actually do have meaning beyond just hiring value? Maybe this actually was more informative than my in-person 4 year university standard STEM degree? I mean those are some strong market predictions, and I haven't discovered any new physics in the past 10 years...

The third time around though, I'm feeling less like Nostradamus and more like which of these LLMs ate my paper, and who was these lazy fuck that copy/pasted it into their 10 year growth strategy presentation. Next step, if they stick to the plan, is to implement an employee exchange program that "helps their mostly isolated regional teams build connectivity and innovate with one another globally". It's the exact same strategy I came up with, using the exact same timeframes, executed in the exact same order I prescribed it.

My bullshit online business degree capstone project was coming up with a business plan for a well known existing business to increase some component of their market share. I was assigned Netflix, and my idea was a 3 phase plan that started with gaming, then addressed their massive production overhead by first aggressively focusing on locking down Netflix contracted actors/writers/directors with a more long term plan building up a reusable physical studio location and costume/prop warehouse. Basically the same setup a legacy Hollywood studio like WB has.

(Netflix released mobile/web games in Q4 2021 - My paper from May 2020 said this could be implemented as early as 2021. Netflix already has the infrastructure they just need partners, of which there are plenty of in the mobile gaming space)

(Netflix aggressively contracted actors, writers, and directors from 2020 onwards and is why you see so many of the same people acting and writing in their original productions, to the point where a few short years later 'netflix style writing and cinematography' is now a recognized as its own thing.)

(A big part of my paper was how long term plan could be accelerated with the purchase of a failing legacy entertainment giant such as MGM or Warner Bros. So many Hollywood studios were failing at the time for stupid financial decisions, but they still had the majority of their infrastructure and catalogue intact. This issue is invisible to Disney/Paramount/Universal/Etc. since they have their own services and studios; Disney obvious didn't read my paper because legacy media totally could've choked out tech-streaming with studio rental fees. Amazon bought MGM in 2022, so that only leaves WB as a viable target.)

If Netflix has this much money then I feel less bad about pirating their content for years now.

Get ready for Ultra Premium™️ subscription price hikes.

That's bad, HBO won't make new quality show.

Netflix has 300 million subscribers. Buying WB for $80 Billions means every subscriber has to pay at least ~266$ for Netflix to break even. That's about $4.50 per month per subscriber if you spread it out over 5 years. Get ready for for some price hikes.

Price increase coming in 3… 2… 1…

This is the best possible outcome out of a very shitty list. They haf to sell, Disney already owns too much, Jeff Bezos would monetize it in the worst possible ways, and Larry Ellison is the most evil billionaire in the US. Yes, much worse than Elon, Zuck, Bezos, etc.

EDIT: Unfortunately Larry Ellison could still buy the global division which includes CNN. Netflix is only buying the studios and streaming. Still no idea what happens to DC Comics but I think it goes with global?

This is actually worse than even Paramount aquiring them.

Both were shit, but this is hands down the worst possible outcome.

"Netflix says the buy would give users more choice"

In a world with real journalism the very next question would be how but we just spread the normalization and allow the little lies.

I thought Disney already did that

Zaslav you shitbag.

Shiver me timbers! Netflix is the last streaming service I've kept, because it (so far) hasn't started showing me ads. I REFUSE TO PAY FOR ADS! Also, when they jack up the price from this merger, I'm out.

I can't wait for K-Pop Demon Hunters the ride at your nearest 6 flags..?

I was really hoping for HBO to be the ones to tackle a Stormlight Archive adaptation. I no longer do.

Netflix is the new direct tv. Instead of 500 channels, your choice of content is splattered in one spot.