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Bea, gay gay gay, Scottish
This is a poll free blog dedicated to whatever I find interesting, including, but not limited to, politics and the lives of millionaire ex-boybanders x
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ayeforscotland

As far as I’m aware it’s not happened yet, but Humza Yousaf will be stepping down as SNP leader and First Minister.

#I think there are serious benefits to an election that returns a Labour government at this stage#labour are terrible obv#but all these parties are#but the one thing they can’t do if there is a UK labour government which looks likely#is spend the next five years avoiding any real accountability in areas they have power by saying ‘oh it’s westminsters fault’#also#if I was the greens#right now#I’d have Alison Johnstone resign#reckon the opposition parties would then band together#force the SNP to put up a presiding officer#and increase the gap they need for a majority further
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getpoliticaluk

For decades the tories have been saying there is no such thing as a society

Yesterday the good people of Glasgow came together to protect 2 of their own, it’s in their interest to tell us “there’s no such thing as a society that there are individual men and women and there are families” because on our own they can do anything they want to us, it’s only when we stand together that we are protected

#in light of the news that the government will be pushing forward immigration raids from tomorrow#as part of their vile Rwanda policy#I think it’s a good time to remind ourselves that we can fight this on the streets#that an immigration van turning up to our neighbours#is a matter for all of us to resist#and that we can beat the bastards#and we can do that over and over again#and if you’re wondering ‘what can I do’#join your local anti-raids group
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yellowraincoat

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

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neil-gaiman

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.

#this is interesting in terms of how netflix measures value
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What’s actually changed for Eleanor? She’s no longer taking photos in the Barnet House. She still has the dogs, she’s still randomly seen out and about on London and at holiday locations favoured by Louis and his family. I am really curious about who’s funding her fancy lifestyle.

I’m a bit baffled by the initial question of ‘what’s actually changed for Eleanor’ because the very simple answer is that we don’t know. How could we? Eleanor posts very limited snippets of her life on social media, and for years that has focused on dogs, holidays, the odd snippet of her with friends and her work with brands. That seems to be working for her on various levels.

However, what insight that gives us into her life is very limited. It does mean her social media posts have been quite consistent if maybe a bit less frequent.

Louis and his family are not unique in holidaying in Dubai, Mexico, Santorini and Ibiza - those are all popular holiday destinations for people with money. I’m not sure what you’re really getting at, but I think that point is a bit absurd and just as meaningless as saying Louis and his family continue to holiday in places favoured by Eleanor.

On your final point though where you say you are curious about who is ‘funding her fancy lifestyle’. I think that, in the simplest terms, Eleanor is.

If you believe her relationship with Louis was a working one then her pay and conditions as part of that job, plus the social media/brand work she does, would be her income. Though she may well have been doing other work. In what I consider the less likely situation that their relationship was romantic then we can’t know what their financial situation was but I would hope Louis was sharing his income with her equitably.

In terms of what she does now, like I said beyond the social media work she does, we can’t know. Hopefully she was paid suitably by Louis, and that might mean she has enough money she doesn’t need to do anything else for a while.

#there is also the possibility she has some generational wealth#I really don’t know enough about her family to know if that is the case#Eleanor
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