In 2002, anthropologist Grover Krantz made a unique arrangement for his final resting place: donating his body to the Smithsonian, with a heartfelt condition. Krantz insisted that his cherished Irish Wolfhound, Clyde, accompany him in death. True to his wishes, when Krantz's body was put on display in 2009, Clyde stood faithfully by his side for all to see.

Listen it wasn’t the most baffling thing in the world when Netflix canceled Lockwood and co even tho it performed well bc let’s be real, Netflix will basically cancel a show if it breathes wrong…

But do you think that Netflix actually canceled Lockwood and co bc around the time it aired they’d aquired the rights to dead boy detectives (a show with a competingly similar premise to Lockwood and co that has Neil Gaiman attached who’s had two very successful shows in the last few years with Netflix and Amazon prime)… because I do.

Like to me that’s the missing puzzle piece of what happened there

I'm seeing and being sent a lot of things like this. So, to remind you, this was what Sandman did in 2022 per Wikipedia:

The Sandman ranked at number one globally on Netflix's Top 10 titles three days after its release with 69.5 million hours viewed.[90] In its first full week of streaming, The Sandman remained the most-watched show on Netflix's weekly Top 10 list of the most-watched TV shows, with 127.5 million hours viewed between August 8–14.[91] The Sandman remained the most-watched English-language TV show on Netflix for the third time in a row between August 15–21.[92] The show had been watched over 393.14 million hours in total by September 18.[93]

The show was the eighth most-watched English language show on Netflix of 2022 spending 7 weeks in the global top 10s.[94]

and we were touch and go on whether Netflix would renew Sandman for three months, because the figure that Netflix cared about was not how much we were being watched but our "completion rate" -- how many people were binge-watching it to the end. And that started out out low, something like 30%, because, it turned out, people liked watching an episode of Sandman and then going away and thinking about it, and then coming back in a week and watching another. So by the end of the 12 weeks we were lucky, enough people had watched all 11 episodes that we were safe, our completion rate (which normally remains consistent and unchanging) had risen to about 70%, and Netflix let us know that we were renewed.

Lockwood and Co, per Wikipedia did:

Lockwood & Co. featured in the Netflix global top 10s for 3 weeks between 22 January and 12 February, picking up 79.91 million hours.[29] It reached Netflix's Global Top #1 Show spot in its second week on the platform,[30] holding the number one spot in 18 countries.[31]

Over the first half of 2023, the show ranked fourth among Netflix UK's original shows, with 113 million hours viewed,[32] and 80th globally among all Netflix titles.[33]

Which is great. But if Sandman wasn't a slam-dunk, that's not a slam-dunk either. It all comes back to people at Netflix looking at all of their algorithms, and deciding whether or not they are going to renew a show. And in this case Lockwood and Co didn't get renewed.

Dead Boy Detectives is a very different kind of show to Lockwood and Co, even if there are superficial similarities. Netflix buying Dead Boy Detectives from HBO Max (who didn't have space on their schedule to release it until late 2025 or early 2026) in February 2022 didn't change Netflix's plans with Lockwood and Co. Netflix doesn't think like that. They release shows, then they look at their algorithms, and completion rate and completion speed is the most important for them (I have no idea why this is). Then they make more or they don't.

Nobody knows whether Netflix will renew Dead Boy Detectives, especially not Netflix. It will come out. It will find an audience or it won't, it will top the charts or it won't, and no matter how well it seems to have done we'll all still be on tenterhooks for two or three months until the final numbers are in, and the mysterious forces at Netflix make their decisions.

If you love it, tell your friends. Encourage them to watch all eight episodes, or to have their computers finish watching all eight episodes even if they don't have the time. That's always going to be the most important number, for Netflix, all over the world: completion rates and binging.

guyyys, who sent my random speculating shit post to Neil Gaiman :/ not cool y'all

Tumblr did, in its "For You" section, because, at a guess, I've been posting Dead Boy Detectives stuff, and it algorithmed it into my feed. This is how Tumblr works, I'm afraid. (And while I mostly mean to be on the Following rather than the For You stream, sometimes it slips.)

Yes, such a claim makes him look like a small-minded piece of shit. To us. But we still shouldn't help Musk create revisionist history.

Musk bought Twitter because he fucked around and found out. He wanted to fuck with Twitter's stock price by feigning interest in buying it. Since that's illegal, he was then cornered into actually buying it for an insanely inflated price.

He's a transphobe. He's a bad father. But he's also a fucking idiot.

This. Please remember that he committed blatant market manipulation by not disclosing that he owned shares of Twitter when he was fucking with the stock market. The SEC was watching him very closely already, and so when the cost became more than what the entire company was worth, he had no choice. Remember when he had his gaggle of lawyers try to get him out of it by saying Twitter didn't disclose all of the information? That wasn't Twitter, it was him trying desperately to get out of a purchase he didn't want in the first place.

my friend just told me that there’s a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you’ve turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.

i literally love tumblr

i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it’s great. two dashboards for life

wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.

here are a few other “secret” dashboards:

these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format… the “Stuff for you” tab/feed is the same idea.

I was sure this was going to be 5 rickrolls, but no, this is both legit and amazing.

YOU’RE TELLING ME THIS IS A 1 TO 2 YEAR OLD DOG??? YEARS??? THIS THING??? YEARS????

(SOURCE)

🐱 Oriental Shorthair

📸 Tatiana Makukhina [Mockingbird Cattery]

🎨 Chocolate Spotted Tabby

sunsets after 7pm now !!!!!!!!!!! we made it guys !!!!!!!!!!!!

Guys those greedy bastards in the northern hemisphere are stealing our FUCKING SUN!!

Vicky whenever I walk by her terrarium

Ncuti Gatwa - Attitude Magazine (May/June 2024)

Same energy

Reason number one you should attend Chicago Herpetological Society meetings: Nakajima WILL sit on your shoulders or lap or chest and WILL make it known how much fun she thinks people are. Also she might tell your kids secrets.

I still can't believe how amazing she is with kids. This is not a domesticated animal! This isn't a dog with a drive to work with people! This is a lizard who simply loves human interaction, and I am so grateful she ended up with me. I miss Kaiju every day but she makes the absence tolerable, and I'm so glad she and I have an avenue through CHS to share her with the world.

she has homophobia 😍

[ID: two photos of the same white cat looking upwards. In both eyes there is a vertical split of colours brownish-yellow and bright blue. There is a caption on the first image: “Her parents are Tide pods”. /End ID]

homophobia heritage pist

Me in the 2010s: I guess I have a decent idea of this topic because I read the Wikipedia article

People then: Lol bro thinks Wikipedia is a reliable repository of scholarly information lmao try citing some real articles and primary or at least secondary sources you plebeian-ass bitch

Me now: I guess I have a decent idea of this topic because I read the Wikipedia article

People now: No I'm the expert cuz I saw a tiktok