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0 pointsxyst1y ago0 comments

What a massive blow to NFLX. They have been in the streaming game for years (survived COVID-19) and this silly exhibition match is what does them in?

I didn’t watch it live (boxing has lot its allure for me) but vicariously lived through it via social feed on Bluesky/Mastadon.

Billions of dollars at their disposal and they just can’t get it right. Probably laid off the highly paid engineers and teams that made their shit work.

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wannacboatmovie1y ago

> Probably laid off the highly paid engineers and teams that made their shit work.

More likely overpaying a bunch of posers without the chops, a victim of their own arrogance.

thesausageking1y ago

It's not a "massive blow" at all. Consumers will only vaguely remember this in a month. Netflix got a lot of new signups and got to test out their streaming infrastructure to figure out what needs work.

The fight itself was lame which worked in their favor. No one really cared about not being able to see every second of the "action". It's not like it was an NBA game that came down to the last second.

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