All I Do Is Scroll Netflix Forever. Does That Count as Entertainment?
All I Do Is Scroll Netflix Forever. Does That Count as Entertainment?
admin 2024/07/23 21:49When I pull up Netflix at the end of a long day, sometimes it takes me an hour just to decide what to watch.
I'm also hoping you'll tell me that endless scrolling is a perfectly valid new form of entertainment? —Doom Looper
You may vaguely recall the “Surprise Me” option, which Netflix introduced during the pandemic. The feature, basically a glorified shuffle button, was designed precisely for users like yourself, Hamlets of the streaming age, tragically frozen by indecision. The fact that it was quietly removed last year, apparently due to “low use,” would seem to favor your theory about scrolling as a new form of entertainment. If people like you will not relinquish the burden of choice to an algorithm, then surely you’re all getting some kind of perverse pleasure from your indecision.
You could argue...
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I'm also hoping you'll tell me that endless scrolling is a perfectly valid new form of entertainment? —Doom Looper
You may vaguely recall the “Surprise Me” option, which Netflix introduced during the pandemic. The feature, basically a glorified shuffle button, was designed precisely for users like yourself, Hamlets of the streaming age, tragically frozen by indecision. The fact that it was quietly removed last year, apparently due to “low use,” would seem to favor your theory about scrolling as a new form of entertainment. If people like you will not relinquish the burden of choice to an algorithm, then surely you’re all getting some kind of perverse pleasure from your indecision.
You could argue...
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