Who is watching this?!

I just assumed the Netflix top 10 were movies/shows they were trying to push, not based on actual veiwership.

Browsing YouTube while logged out is 1,000 times worse.

Remember when Netflix had a million dollar competition to improve their recommendation system by something like 10%? Remember when they had user ratings and reviews? Remember when they threw it all in the fucking trash?

Nothing makes me feel more disconnected from humanity than the YouTube trending tab

As if it's not just their selected movies they wanna promote.

PSA: The top 10 lists are 100% bought and paid for, or pushed by the streaming service in question.

That's also how I feel whenever I access youtube from a different browser and just get the default listing.

I'm so disconnected I don't even have Netflix or any other streaming service

Godzilla Minus One was #1 yesterday. I'm glad to finally see some good taste on there.

I never trusted that list from the getgo. Why wouldn't they use it to promote certain content? It would be wasted opportunity if they didn't.

Godzilla minus one is currently dominating that and I absolutely agree with that choice!

Godzilla Minus One instantly hitting #1 restores my faith in humanity... a little.

During the pandemic I just sort of forgot about movies and most TV. I hadn't even heard of 90% of the stuff nominated last awards season.

For the most part it doesn't come up, but every so often I end up in a conversation where I feel like an alien.

My mom was describing some show to me saying I should watch it and I was just thinking "that sounds awful"

It keeps trying to get me to watch the new Zack Snyder Star Wars rip-off.

I watched the first one. I'd take a prostate exam by Edward Scissorhands before I waste another two hours of my life on the sequel.

I don't know if these are based on what everyone on the service is watching, or if it's just because they still use Nielson families as their sole metric. How can the top 10 most popular things be shit I have never even heard of? If they're that popular, I'm pretty sure I'd hear about it somewhere.

The comments here are enlightening. In a dismaying sort of way.

It seems nothing drives a wedge between all people in a community than algorithms like the Netflix Top Ten. Everybody eyeing everyone else with suspicion, when actually no one is actually watching that crap.

This is true for most popular things for me. I'm always wondering how this is so popular.

You can find good stuff aound 5+ sometimes.

The Outfit is good. Atlas is shit.

I wanna take a minute to plug criterion channel. Objectively the value is worse than Netflix. But they have an amazing collection of films nonetheless. I put their 24/7 channel on and just watch whatever is on. Never in a million years thought I would be into classic French cinema.

On a side rant fuck the French and their films! They drop you right into a situation with no clear good or bad guys. The films have meandering plots that go nowhere because why would they!?!? At the end there's no resolution, just an empty chasam in your soul you've somehow overlooked your entire existence. And the worst part is they just put "fin" up on the screen and that's that. Fuckin foreign nonsense

There's all sorts of treasures, may be worth a peek.

Yup... I don't get.

What's the Netflix top 10..?

When it doesn’t occur to you that the list is made up entirely by Netflix to get that engagement, really making it the “Top Ten Things Netflix Wants You To Watch Right Now, Please” list.

Or the top 10 of the charts iTunes?

Vaguely similar, there's a salad bar at the cafeteria I go to at work. I'm convinced that nothing looks as disgusting as someone else's salad.

Ah yes, Atlas, the bootleg titanfall movie

just play it from the top

Sometimes it shows a new release I'll watch. In fact, the list is basically just a list of what is new, like sorting by "hot".

Here's a link to the tweet

https://x.com/amandamull/status/1388301320881328128