I don't get it - these shows and their subtitles get streamed tens of millions of times across decades, but 4 hours per episode is too expensive? I mean I gues

I don't get it - these shows and their subtitles get streamed tens of millions of times across decades, but 4 hours per episode is too expensive? I mean I guess there's a very long tail of mediocre shows as well that get thousands of streams at best, but still.