fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails

3 years ago by jeanma to c/mildlyinfuriating

Why do they feel the need to show suggestive sex positions? french kisses every thumbnails lines ???

I was looking for some Miyasaki films (eg: Porco rosso, Chihiro) for my kids and those are not available in the "family/kids" curated profile.

So, I had to create a new profile, I open the search view and the first FUCKING thumbnail is a couple having sex, suggestive but still! And it continues each time I iterate my research.

Between the nihilistic, the lowbrow sex or serial killer shit , there's nothing really. Increasing price, removing shared account is not a cure to a sucky catalog!

Fuck you Netflix

ventilating....

**EDIT: ** I forgot to mention in the first post version that Porco Rosso, Chihiro and other Miyazaki are actually only available in the non family/kids profile, that's why I'm furious.

eezeebee 126 points 3 years ago

They can't hear you unless you cancel the service

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RamSwamson 44 points 3 years ago

This! I cancelled Netflix the same day they raised their prices and never looked back. Was it inconvenient? Sure! But I found a way to cope. Society needs to relearn how to speak with their wallets instead of their mouths. Complaints go unheard otherwise.

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metaStatic 28 points 3 years ago

Your dollar isn't as important as you think.
Advocate for owning the media you consume as well.
I bought a NAS and am in the process of ripping all the physical media I already own for my Jellyfin server.

look at me, I am the streaming platform now.

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cedarmesa 6 points 3 years ago

💀

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wheeldawg 1 point 3 years ago

Eh, this doesn't work. Higher cost items are gerrymandering like fuck.

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CeruleanRuin 4 points 3 years ago

I cancelled over the password sharing nonsense and also their shitty stance on the writer's strike.

I haven't missed Netflix, even a little bit.

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doppelgangmember 4 points 3 years ago

Time to set sail!

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Mugmoor 45 points 3 years ago

Netflix drove many people to leave piracy, and now they're driving them right back to it again.

Way to go guys.

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turtlepower 10 points 3 years ago

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EherVielleicht 30 points 3 years ago

Xhamster better stories, better french, better greek, better spain and I hope no hamsters....

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Ilikepornaddict 4 points 3 years ago

But probably a few hamsters.

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wheeldawg 1 point 3 years ago

Nah, you clicked x on hamsters, clearly.

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Tenthrow 21 points 3 years ago

I cancelled, and haven't missed it.

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krnl386 3 points 3 years ago

Ditto!

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Cannizzaro 16 points 3 years ago

Sail the high seas, my friend

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GiddyGap 14 points 3 years ago

That stuff is mostly an issue in the rather puritan US. People don't really think like that elsewhere.

I assume they are not making specific "clean" or censored version just for the US.

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tdawg 10 points 3 years ago

Sounds like a future Plex user

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theragu40 9 points 3 years ago

Hulu does this shit too. I swear every other day it's some new horror show or naked people as the main banner when we log in. I don't want to look at any of that! Jesus christ, I should be able to log into our live TV app without having to tell my kids to turn away. We're not prudes, I'm not offended by nudity, but my kids are in early grade school. They are easily frightened and they're not old enough yet for me to be having "the talk" with them because Hulu can't be bothered to keep their banners PG.

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jesterraiin 8 points 3 years ago

Because you need to be reduced to sex, fear, and overspending. This way you won't think and will be easy to manipulate.

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cybervseas 1 point 3 years ago

Have you watched "They Live"?

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baronvonj 3 points 3 years ago

Do you have any bubblegum?

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Disco_Dougie 1 point 3 years ago

All out, sorry.

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clumsychickadee 1 point 3 years ago

Time to kick some ass then.

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Pyroglyph 1 point 3 years ago

Sex, fear, and overspending? I prefer sex, fear, and fünf.

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KrombopulosMikl 8 points 3 years ago

Wait a second. Is there decent sex on Netflix? Where is it?!

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OctarineYoda 12 points 3 years ago

No, just thumbnails that suggest there is

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i_stole_ur_taco 20 points 3 years ago

Ah, the old 'bate and switch.

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ech 3 points 3 years ago

That's actually an entirely different site. Lots of leather.

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Seraph 8 points 3 years ago

Imagine being Ace in this world! I seriously can't - sex is fucking EVERYWHERE thanks to marketing.

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realcaseyrollins 6 points 3 years ago

I feel like if you're ace you won't be aroused so it's even less of a problem, no?

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callyral 7 points 3 years ago

They could be sex-repulsed, which I imagine would make them disgusted maybe? I don't know I'm not asexual

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NuPNuA 2 points 3 years ago

Sex repulsed seems like more of a psychological issue than a form of sexuality.

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NoSuchNarwhal 1 point 3 years ago

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Ataraxia 1 point 3 years ago

I'm not repulsed by my SO but everything else is so gross..

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Solarius 5 points 3 years ago

considering it's something the vast majority of people have strong reactions for it's kind of to be expected. for most people it's as basic as craving food. even if it wasn't in marketing it'd still be everywhere in art (songs, movies, etc)

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rich 5 points 3 years ago

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ComradeBunnie 5 points 3 years ago

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.

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Seraph 2 points 3 years ago

haha Asexual

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metaStatic 1 point 3 years ago

A sexual what? Dynamo? deviant? lawsuit waiting to happen?

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baronvonj 4 points 3 years ago

Tyrannosaurus

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NuPNuA 1 point 3 years ago

Are you simply disinterested in sex or disgusted by it. If the former seems like it would be easy to ignore what you see. If the later that seems like something other than your sexuality is at play.

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wheeldawg 1 point 3 years ago

You can be disgusted by the surplus of something you don't care about.

Like I'm disgusted with sports. Not on Lemmy, I don't really see it here unless I'm on All. But in daily life, it's everywhere. I can't fucking stand it. I don't wanna see it hear about sports leagues or conferences, or athletes.

I like to see a little bit of Olympics, but that's it. And only then because it's the top people doing their thing, potentially seeing records for it. As for professional stuff, it needs to just die off, honestly. Meatheads shouldn't get college degrees paid for just cuz they "throw ball good".

Fucking disgusting. And I'm tired of pretending it isn't.

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NuPNuA 1 point 3 years ago

Sounds like an American issue "college sports" aren't a thing elsewhere.

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Skyrmir 6 points 3 years ago

They're playing on the latent puritanism in US culture. The only reason it's done is because it pushes peoples buttons and draws interest. The other options are what you see over seas, where either free speech is harshly curtailed, or people get over it, and advertisers stop because it doesn't cause concerned citizens to lose their shit any more.

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SCB 6 points 3 years ago

This dude is drawing entirely from puritanism so

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HollandJim 5 points 3 years ago

We ditched it 2.5 years ago for TV+ and have been enjoying the higher-quality shows - lots of them now, we can’t keep up. Great kids programming too. Disney might also be a better choice, especially if you’re looking for family fare.

Amazon “Prime” and Paramount are pretty useless for any content for pre-teens. Amazon seems to be really big on mindless violence come to think about it. Some jewels, like Mrs Maisel and Good Omens, but they’re the exceptions.

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FlyingSquid 4 points 3 years ago

Paramount+ has Nickelodeon. I'm pretty sure that's good content for pre-teens.

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HollandJim 2 points 3 years ago

Quite true - we don’t have that bundled in Paramount here (NL)

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dragontamer 5 points 3 years ago

Oh it gets better.

Rumor is that the new Live Action "Avatar: The Last Airbender" netflix show is sex'd up. Its so sex'd up that the original authors quit the project and started another Avatar cartoon at Paramount.

I can't wait to see children-heroes suddenly doing sexy-acts in a live action remake. /s

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PorradaVFR 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah…you’ll want to omit “bender” in content search terms if you want to avoid teh sexy stuff.

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blackbrook 1 point 3 years ago

Bite my shiny metal ass!

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PorradaVFR 2 points 3 years ago

boisterous robot cackle

(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

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ikilledlaurapalmer 4 points 3 years ago

In the US, at least, if you’re looking for Myasaki films, they’re going to be on Max and not Netflix.

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CorrodedCranium 4 points 3 years ago

I feel like you'd run into similar stuff anywhere you go. That's why there are kids profiles. I imagine Netflix at least does a better job routing out suggestive content than YouTube does.

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jeanma 4 points 3 years ago

I forgot to precise that Porco Rosso, Chihiro and other Miyazaki are actually available in the non family/kids profile, hence my little breakdown

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Sephtis-6 2 points 3 years ago

Might be because of my area or watch history but never had that problem with Amazon prime. I'm definitely not a fan boy for them since they have maby flaws but at least not some sex scene thumbnails

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Rouxibeau 2 points 3 years ago

Cast from your phone.

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mrvictory1 1 point 3 years ago

I read a post from Netflix tech blog explaining the selection of a thumbnail. A video has many thumbnails and Netflix picks one for you depending on the shows you watch and your country. From the new profile watch movies / series that are unrelated with romance and the thumbnails should hopefully change.

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1984 1 point 3 years ago

What's Netflix? Ah right that service i cancelled over a year ago.

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gunpachi -3 points 3 years ago

I was talking to my friends about the same topic yesterday and they didn't seem to bothered by it.

On a different note, even some music videos that are coming out these days have really suggestive content and Youtube puts this shit right in the front page (for a not signed in session).

We live in a world where people are getting too used to messed up stuff.

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SCB 1 point 3 years ago

these days

https://youtu.be/OjyZKfdwlng

https://youtu.be/X53ZSxkQ3Ho

https://youtu.be/4Rg3sAb8Id8

Lmao

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gunpachi 1 point 3 years ago

I actually meant music videos like Cardi B's WAP which is not even age restricted in Youtube.

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SCB 1 point 3 years ago

How is that substantively different from the videos I linked?

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gunpachi 1 point 3 years ago

They do have similar themes but the video I linked clearly has more explicit visuals.

Adults may see it as normal, but I certainly don't want my kids to watch videos like WAP and get normalized to the such visuals and nudity.

Youtube should properly age restrict videos based on their visuals at least.

I'm sure you understand what I'm getting at.

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nx2 -56 points 3 years ago

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Kovu 35 points 3 years ago

do you have brain damage

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dulce_3t_decorum_3st 20 points 3 years ago

I didn't think you guys had leaked from Twitter and r/conspiracy, but here you are.

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rebelsimile 11 points 3 years ago

You gotta be nicer, they’re having a lot of trouble spelling the new name for Twitter.

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Sanctus 19 points 3 years ago

Thats not what woke means at all. People who want to introduce kids to sexual content are pedophiles. Thats the word for them. But OP created a new profile, and it sounds like he did not select the childrens filtering. There are protections in place, but they don't work if you don't use them.

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Sephtis-6 -21 points 3 years ago

It is part of the whole woke thing. And even without the filters there shouldn't be only sex as the thumbnails

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Rhynoplaz 10 points 3 years ago

Define woke please. You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means

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Sephtis-6 -2 points 3 years ago

Here you go:
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism.

But these are also mostly the people who are ok with shit like this(some sex things on normal platforms where there is a gold chance a child is watching)

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NuPNuA 1 point 3 years ago

Why? Most of the world doesn't have the US hang ups around sex.

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Sephtis-6 0 points 3 years ago

I'm not from the US but still don't want to have these soft porn scenes show to young children.
It's not about the US it's about common sense

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remotelove 13 points 3 years ago

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Swedneck 4 points 3 years ago

Is.. Is this an attempt to make people keep their subscriptions just to spite you?

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