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> - Expensive unregulated television!

> - Expensive unregulated scam concert tickets!

What are these two?




Netflix/Paramount/Max/Hulu/etc

They sell a subscription to shows, and then remove or enshittify their service. It's the equivalent of shrinkflation, where you buy 10$ of something, and it's 80% the size of last week.

Ticketmaster, and their new bot storefront.


Imagine if campbells could pull soup out of the cans in your cupboard while talking about "licensing issues"


Hey, it works for Rockstar doing that with every Grand Theft Auto soundtrack.




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