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Netflix is tanking

Zarna Joshi
7 min readMay 17, 2022

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Did you cause this?

A grey background with a chart in purple font. At the top in white font on a black background is chart title: “Netflix Q1 subscriber loss”. The chart shows Netflix subscriber numbers from 2017 to 20022 and has no negative number until 2022’s first quarter which shows “-200K”. That part was circled in red by me. At the bottom of the image is a black bar with white font that reads: “Yahoo! finance Netflix’s subscriber loss. Above the black bar is white font on a red background that reads: “ALERT”.
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Remember when I told you about how, in my informed opinion, Netflix was Hinduphobic, anti-Black racist, transphobic, misogynistic, and they abuse their own workers, all while pretending to care about social justice? And remember how I pointed out Netflix’s disturbingly abusive content, all under the guise of socially just entertainment?

And remember when I told you that Hindus are leading the way with a powerful boycott and that Netflix is in trouble?

Well. This is from April 20 2022:

A picture of a city landscape with highways, trees, and office buildings clearly visible in the foreground and skyscrapers visible on the distant horizon that appears hazy with pollution. In the forefront to the right is a building with “Netflix” emblazoned in red on the side. A caption at the top left of the image reads: “Netflix reports first subscriber loss in a decade.” Subtitles at the bottom center read: “- Netflix reported losing subscribers for the first time.”
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Netflix reported a 200,000 subscriber loss in the first quarter of 2022. This is their first subscriber loss in 10 years.

They want to blame their losses on increased competition, inflation, and Russia, and will go on and on about it to anyone who’ll listen. Here are 3 reasons why I think their excuses are nonsense:

  1. People don’t go to the competition unless they don’t like three things; your product, your price, and your attitude.
  2. The current inflation is from the USA’s own imperialist capitalist actions in imposing sanctions on countries around the world, which is economic warfare as I have…

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Zarna Joshi
Zarna Joshi

Written by Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy. zarnajoshi.com https://buymeacoffee.com/zarnajoshi

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