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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:22:19 JST Sick Sun
   The reason "enshittification" is a bad term and concept is that it's too clever so people want to ram their idea into that idea so they can say the word "enshittification". As an example, here is a comment about targeted slop content that wrongly associates it with enshittification.
   
   The reason it's wrong is that Netflix is making money hand over fist producing slop content. It relies on manipulating human psychology. It has nothing really to do with "enshittification" (VC money needing to be paid back no matter what leading to a platform becoming less useful over time because the increased monetization is obnoxious.)
   
   The closest I can associate it with that is that slop production can be adopted because of expectations of infinite growth of your platform. When your platform provides everybody with movies they want to see already, and you want them to see more, you make your own movies. But, they don't have to be slop movies, they could just compete with normal hollywood movies. They are making slop because it's tailored to the audience "people who want to 'watch' a movie while it is playing on a second screen they're barely paying attention to." it has to be bad by normal moviemaking standards because of the viewer they are targeting which is unfortunately a very real demographic. There is money to be made producing slop. It's the opposite of "enshittification"
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     meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:23:07 JST meso

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     @sun people named "Cory Doctorow" should not have rights
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     meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:23:28 JST meso

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     @sun niggas really named their kid "Peels Doctorson" @VIPPER
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:33:25 JST Sick Sun

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     @Nudhul @why slop is too broad of a term to be useful.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:33:26 JST Nudhul

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     @why @sun slop or enshittification?
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:33:27 JST Nudhul

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     @sun tl;dr you need to gatekeep your space or ugly retards will break everything
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:33:27 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @Nudhul @sun its actually a really good term i like it a lot you can instantly filter everyone who brings it up
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:36:10 JST Sick Sun

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     @Nudhul @why the video I mention, the slop is actually very carefully engineered, netflix spend a lot of money creating their slop.
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 00:36:11 JST Nudhul

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     @sun @why slop is a catch-all term for low effort, mass produced garbage for people who dont think or care about quality
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:35:25 JST Sick Sun

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     @frogzone @Nudhul @why my opinion is that if you stick to the original thing doctorow said before even he expanded it to keep riding the wave, it was good thing to pay attention to but the name was never good because too-clever people want to say "enshittification" its a very reddit term
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     frogzone@wizard.casa's status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:35:26 JST frogzone

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     @Nudhul @sun @why why say enshittification that consumes 16 characters, when you can say 'waste', i would say that what you've described is a perrfect case of waste.

     Production costs,
     Waste of bandwidth and energy to consume especially if the end user is not really watching it.

     Seriously tho 'enshittification' isn't a bad phrase for it. i remember seeing tripe on the platform and feeling like they were cheapening movies and making the art of film worse/shitter. it's really not a bad way to describe it. I think anything that encourages making content to stoke peoples biases and serve them targetted ads, and product placements, which i'm told #netflix does, can rightfully use that word....

     but yeah essentially its #waste.

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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:35:27 JST Nudhul

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     @sun @why i think most of that is due to the bloated interwoven layers of corporate bureaucracy rather than budgeted for "talent"
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     You Will Never Know Why (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:37:42 JST You Will Never Know Why

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     @sun @frogzone @Nudhul remember when "normalfag" was turned to "normie" for the express purpose of normalfags being able to say the term on their normalfag website to their normalfag friends with their normalfag memes without saying slurs because normalfags dont say slurs
     yeah
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