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  • It is in some communities. But there are certain places I used to see pretty regular updates and engagement on Reddit that either don’t exist here or are absolute ghost towns. You can say that’s because of a different user base and different priorities and that’s fair — but then you can’t complain about low involvement/engagement by people who want to participate in those communities.



  • I would argue it’s worse (and not because of Ellison’s politics).

    Paramount has far less liquidity than Netflix does, and this is going to be a lot of borrowed money. A not-insignificant portion is coming from the Saudis, and that money will have strings on the strings attached.

    More broadly, it also means that WB is once again under new ownership by a parent company who took on a destabilizing amount of debt to get the deal done. That’s the same thing that happened with AT&T and then Discovery. And under Zaslav and Discovery, the job cuts have been significant.

    Paramount also has a lot more redundancy built in since they basically have an identical business model and similar assets. Why do they need another Burbank lot? A bunch more shitty, unprofitable cable networks?