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me and my besties at the front door of Netflix headquarters
Up until June, Dead Boy Detectives already had 12.6 million views, amounting to 91.3 million hours viewed.
This data has been published today by Netflix themselves, so it is the only official numbers we have, and they're not counting the last 2 and a half months. We were already in the top 100 in a list with more than 6 thousand titles, and that was before any campaign.
This is what matters. Obviously, all other shows are also accumulating views everyday, but we can get up in this list. Up to the point it's impossible to ignore.
We'll probably get a new report by the end of the year, so let's make it count. STREAM THAT SHIT
I would apologize for this but there’s nothing to apologize for unless you are @netflix 🤷
me and my besties at the front door of Netflix headquarters
Had the craziest fever(half drunk) dream in which the dbda fandom decided to hop onto the Netflix Roblox games (they’ve been advertised for geek week) and do a Roblox protest hahahaha it was low key so funny but the best part was that it actually worked but I unfortunately woke up and had to question my sanity and go touch some grass.
If a roblox protest is what it takes to have our boys back then so be it.
whenever @netflix brings up budgeting for their reasons for cancellation i want to laugh in their faces, because i promise you that Dead Boy Detectives had a small budget, and you wanna know how i know?
the fact that they have a "magic item" for detecting a spirit's presence, and it's literally fucking rocks
they could have made anything they wanted for some kind of cool device or artifact, but nope; plain-ass grey rocks. they're not even cool gems or have any kind of engravings on them or whatever. just fucking rocks.
but please, @netflix, tell me again about how "expensive" it was to film this show. i'm ready to believe you any minute now. 🙄
Yep, Kaos has gone the same way as (deep breath) Lockwood & Co, Dead Boy Detectives, The Society, Fate: The Winx Saga, Warrior Nun, Archive 81, 1899, Sense8, The OA, Jupiter's Legacy, and more - cancelled prematurely by [Netflix]. (Griffin, Louise. "Netflix Robbed Kaos fans of a proper ending -- and it won't be the last time." Radio Times. 08 Oct. 2024.)
WTF Netflix.
I had thought that Kaos was safe. Big name star power, consistently in Netflix's top 10 all month. I wasn't worried.
I only heard about the show at all a couple of weeks after it released. I didn't have much idea of what it was about until at least a week after that. Even then, my research didn't give me a great idea of whether or not it would be something that I would like, but I was hopeful.
It's been a busy month -- I still haven't watched it yet.
But Kaos has only been out for 40 days, and now it's cancelled. Same pattern as before; word comes out via one of the cast or crew on social media maybe, and then Variety makes the announcement. Never Netflix themselves.
I just…
It's frustrating, when Netflix won't say why.
It's even more frustrating to feel forced into a way of relating to the service where if I want to see a new show for more than eight episodes, I have to watch all of it within 28 days of it launching, and I have to do my part to make sure the watch numbers only go up each week and never down. Or else there won't be any more of it ever.
And being consistently in the top 10 is not enough.
And I'd get it if we were in the old days of broadcast, but we're not, are we? And I didn't get to watch 8 episodes of a show in a month then, either.
What is the point if my choices are "binge it now or regret not having watched it in time later?" What if I don't want to binge-watch a show?
What if it takes me actual time between "I have no idea what this is, I've never heard of it" and "Oh, hey, I know what this is about and yeah, that does sound like something I'd be into?" Why does Netflix's approach to marketing not ever seem to do anything to help me reduce that turnaround?
(Oh, Netflix will occasionally tell me "we think you'll like this" -- and my response is always "Why?" and "Are you sure? Because sometimes it feels like you push things you'd like me to like instead of things I'd actually enjoy." And then they somehow fail to make it easy for me to get answers to those questions, when it should be the easiest thing for them.)
I just…
It's frustrating. And disheartening. And once again I'm learning more about a show in the wake of its cancellation than I knew about it when Netflix was supposedly promoting it, and I am so, so sorry for all of the fans. Again.
Netflix, WTF.