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What I hear you saying is, Netflix has swamped the market and driven down the price of quality content. Well, I say "quality". It seems like every time I look
by throwanem 6y ago
What I hear you saying is, Netflix has swamped the market and driven down the price of quality content.
Well, I say "quality". It seems like every time I look at it, their catalog's dropped something else I wanted to see. My hit rate on searches there has to be hovering around 2%.
- amelius 6y agoNo, really, no single human creator can provide $5/mo worth of content. If you don't like Netflix just think of a quality monthly magazine.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoIMO it's subjective. I once was horrified by a creator's video thanking his fans in an obviously poorly produced setting and style. Years later I've grown to enjoy both their older, rougher works and their newer, polished content. Maybe it's just the illusion of a human connection or hip to support indies, but I'm seriously considering making some monthly donations to support their work. Niches like theirs will always exist.
- throwanem 6y agoThat sounds a lot like AvE. I've been on his Patreon for, oh, must be years now, and he was very gracious when in a fit of excitement I sent a couple of photos of my first completed metalworking project. Not that he's not a bit of a drunk uncle, but it turns out you can learn a lot from one of those. And there's really nothing that's not funny about the occasional 18650 accidentally eating a hacksaw, so long as you're not in the room when it happens.
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- CarbyAu 6y agoIs this the next stage of Patreon? Be more magazine like? $5 month gets you a group of creators in a given field. Hell, I would happily pay that for a whole group of 3D printer/Blender gurus doing their thing and showing me how...
- throwanem 6y agoJudging by my actual spend, I'm infinitely more likely to put $5 a month toward some individual's excellent work, via Patreon, than I am toward a magazine subscription. Meanwhile, the persistence of my Netflix account relies entirely on inertia. Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? They were already well past that when I was still a little kid, and these days a physical magazine is both too costly to produce, and too much of a status symbol, for any such low price to seem very likely.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI think my average magazine subscription has been 80% off cover price. $5 a month is an extremely easy bar to clear. Right now I can go out and get Wired for $20 a year and Time for $30 a year with only a couple seconds of searching, and those are probably not the best offers available.
- jen20 6y ago> Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? I just renewed my subscription to "Sound on Sound" - an _incredibly_ high quality recording industry magazine - for $58.50 for the year, which includes both the print edition and digital edition, so that works out just under $5/mo...
- twic 6y ago> Besides, when was the last time you could get a magazine for $5 a month? Private Eye is £34 a year, so $3.72 a month. And it comes every two weeks.
- mark-r 6y agoMaybe I'm just old, but my mental anchor price is a yearly magazine subscription for $24. Anything more than that seems like a ripoff.
- Talanes 6y agoI pay a $10 podcast Patreon that is the last subscription service I would cancel, because the content is weekly and I consistently enjoy it. I regularly go a week without watching anything on Netflix.
- detaro 6y agoHow do you define $5/mo worth of content? Comparing with how people use Netflix, 2-3 hours of entertainment a week? That's not impossible to get from a single creator if what they do fits your tastes.