Although the video stream is passing through the best moment, the pioneers of this movement are no delight. Netflix has started losing users for the first time in 10 years and hasn’t had 10,000 or 20,000. The report indicates that the service subtracted the substantial figure of 200,000 subscribers from what seems to be the firm’s worst moment in a decade.

Although many factors, such as rising prices in key markets and the country’s withdrawal from Russia in the face of its armed conflict with Ukraine, were identified as responsible for the massive cancellation of Netflix subscriptions and the 35% drop in its shares. In the stock market, which resulted in a loss of $ 30,000 million, Elon Musk stated that another factor contributed to the company’s decline.

Although Netflix prefers to state that the changes announced in recent months, such as additional fees for those who share their account and password with people who do not live at the same address, cause users to stay away, the truth is; All responsibility rests with users, something that has also drawn criticism from subscribers, as the company has shown by confirming that they are already working on a cheap plan that will include ads.

The tycoon behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, who is also one of the richest men on the planet, tweeted that “the virus is I woke up causes Netflix to no longer be seen without further developing its statement after publishing it in the portal’s report slash point shared on social network.

What does businessman mean by virus? I woke up?

to wake up (English awakening) is a term originally coined to refer to social movements that have emerged in recent years. Although initially it only referred to protests from marginalized African-American communities in the United States, it would later spread to other forms of social manifestation, such as the feminist and LGBTQ+ movement.

According to this SpeechThe term was first used by an author and teacher, J. Saunders Redding, in an article about unions written in 1942 by the first African-American to teach at an Ivy League institution. Negro Digest magazine and until 1962 New York Times He took the word back 20 years later.

However, the term I woke up It has become a sort of stigma by conservative groups who, in their own words, want to belittle the progress of activists “who only try to fight for the human rights of historically marginalized groups”.

What does all this have to do with Netflix?

Musk used virus I woke up Cynically, it and the service express what many users consider “forced inclusion”, in which an apparently black, Latino, LGBTQ+ character or any attempt to evade the presumed normality that has been tried for years is envisioned to sell through the media.

While the use of the term could imply a lot more as he didn’t detail his commentary, it’s likely that Elon Musk used it to refer to the company’s trend of creating series and movies with these “forced additions”. Sex Education”, “Bridgerton” and “Waiting”, given that the latter were performed by a pregnant man.

Also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX reply to comment One user stating that not just Netflix, but movies, video games, television and other media in general, has this tendency for fear of offending someone with a short but clear truth, what he’s talking about only supports the aforementioned.

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