so when do i get the 2024 version of this

“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

honestly fuck "side hustles" unless they're something you genuinely want to do. It sucks that they're a thing that some people have to do in order to survive because their "regular" hustle doesn't pay a living wage.

yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you greedy fucks

good.

"We keep making our service worse, cancelling shows before their time, hiking up the prices, and generally ruining what once was a decent product--piracy keeps wining somehow. 🤷"

Enshittify around and find out, I guess.

When I was a teenager, I pirated everything. Do you hear me? EVERYTHING.

Because there was no such thing as streaming and if you wanted to binge/rewatch a show and couldn't afford the $50 you had to pay for a season of a show, that's how you did it

Then Netflix introduced the ability to stream and back then, Netflix has EVERYTHING. And you could share your account!!!

I stopped pirating. I paid for the service. I was happy to do it as long as everything I wanted to watch, I had access to for a reasonable price, PLUS the added bonus of no commercials.

It was just like pirating something, except I didn't have to wait for the download to finish. (Because that took a while back in then. I remember pirating episodes of Doctor Who and having to way 3+ hours to be able to watch it.)

Then Hulu came along. That was fine! What you couldn't find on Netflix, you found on Hulu.

But then it kept getting more expensive. You had to pay extra if you didn't want ads.

So then, as family, we shared. One of us paid for Netflix, one paid for Hulu, we all benefited.

Still, I didn't pirate.

Then Discovery Plus came along. And Disney Plus. And Paramount Plus. HBO Max. And, and, and.

Still, we could share accounts. So if we wanted to watch something on a certain platform, it was, "Hey, who has an account for ____? What's your login info?"

Still, no pirating.

But now they're cracking down on password-sharing.

If I want to stream Marvel, I need a Disney Plus account. If I want to watch old episodes of Supernatural, I need a Netflix account. If I want to watch MASH, I need Hulu.

If I want to watch _____, then I need _______.

The more time passes, the more streaming services there are and the more money I need to fork out in order to be able to watch what I want to watch. It's no long easily accessible on one platform at a low price, EVERYONE has ads now and you have to pay extra to avoid them, and you are not allowed to share accounts for most of them.

I'm not going to pay $20/mo for a streaming service where I can only watch ONE show that I'm interested in before I have to fork out another $10-20 for another and another, until it amounts to the same amount of money my parents used to pay for cable.

I didn't pirate because I didn't have a reason to, but you're driving people to it because of your greed.

You want more but people don't have more to give. You're certainly not paying people enough money to be able to afford these services, so why should they twist themselves into knots about it???

And, of course, as much as this is, it doesn't even touch on one of the comments above--about how they cancel so many good shows for no reason.

At this point in time, I'm starting to re-build my DVD collection and the idea of dusting off my pirating skills is always in the back of my mind because I refuse to struggle to pay for all of these services.

I also almost exclusively watch old/completed shows that I've watched before. VERY rarely will I pick up a new show and it's because I am not going to invest my time into something that will be snatched away from me before its time.

If you, corporations of the world, weren't so goddamn greedy--if your mentality wasn't always "How do I get more, more, more???"--then you wouldn't have to worry about competing against piracy

This is your own fault and I really don't feel sorry for you

Fucking FACTS. I used to pirate ALL of my media, but then I virtually stopped when streaming services came along. Lately, however, I have started pirating again due the reasons above. Streaming services are just attempting to reinvent cable, but with more steps, and I'm not fucking here for it.

the fact that dropout is still making me PERSONALLY wait another two weeks to see if the “um, actually” with amanda and damien will be released is literally torture

OMG same. I mean I love Um Actually but I'm so impatient!

Nickel/Coiny haters:

/j

We don't have pennies in Canada anymore and it's better tbh.

God really said 'copy-paste' but imma make the two in the middle gay and British

I’m

it's giving "corporate wants you to tell the difference..."

yeah no that was crazy. this guy gets it.

This is so fucking hilarious to me given the circumstances. Like honestly I'm losing my damn mind.

A list of possibilities on what could happen moving forward:

This list is in order of best to worst in terms of damage to my psyche.

Tbqh part of me hopes they never mention it again and keep us guessing forever.

Just your average Dan and Phil date night

*opens fanfic*

fanfic: i

*closes fanfic*

Hello fellow sloppy bisexuals how is not putting away the laundry going

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?

yes that is indeed why she's on the list of famous women who like women

why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed "um actually most of these people are bi or pan" did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I'm going to kill you.

#op probably has this post muted but the icon is too real.

the icon is because of this post

POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all's only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi

Well, they have to pay for the house they built, as well. Are any of you guys naive enough to think that they came back to youtube purely for the joy? Why do you think actors star in movies and TV, musicians make records and go on tour, and entertainers in general sometimes do advertisements? It's part of their job and it's how they make money.

Asking a question like this makes it sound like you reside in some sort of fantasy where people don't need money to live. Furthermore, I think you fail to understand that both the youtube game, and d&p's lives have changed since they first started, so of course they've had to evolve.