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[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 28 points 1 year ago (26 children)

the users do get paid though, although i'm sure it's a fraction of what youtube makes.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Hmmm. $20 a month for the big budget action of Westworld, or $20 a month for a cooking show filmed in someone’s basement. Decisions, decisions.

[–] Wolf_359@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

To be fair, YouTube has far more variety and far more content overall. Personally, I have seen pretty much anything worth watching on the major streaming services. My wife and I can just ignore any top 200 list of shows or movies because we have already seen it all and anything we haven't seen doesn't look interesting to us. We just have to wait for new shows to come out.

YouTube though. It's functionally unlimited considering the length of a human lifespan.

For some insight, a quick Google search says that Netflix has about 4 years of content if you sat down and watched everything they have to offer. Meanwhile, YouTube has about 18,000 years of content.

[–] visualfeast@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they including all those 10-hour long loop videos I uploaded?

[–] HERRAX@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I'd take 10h shreksophone over 3 of those 4 years worth of netflix content any day of the week!

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