I love browsing fake convenience store products

gotta watch out for little fellas

all I read about it is you deliver mail in a lake town

so far so good

at least the laptop was closed 😅

ah well

wat

lmao sally menke helped edit this??

this practice only ended because of antitrust action in the 40s, but I guess the ruling doesn’t generalize to streaming?

movie studios like WB used to be vertically integrated the way streaming platforms are doing now. the studios owned the theaters and you could only watch a movie in the studio’s corresponding theater

the way netflix operates is like if spotify became a music label who didn’t allow their bands to tour, didn’t put out cds or records for the hobbyists, and didn’t allow their music to be streamed from other platforms

like, it is what it is for cinemas and physical media to become niche experiences/products for hobbyists, but it’s another thing to disallow the niche market to exist

some people are worried netflix might start gatekeeping WB stuff the way they gatekeep their own library (idk if they will, but)