Netflix is in this situation where it has a pretty easy time making stranger things is,

but it has a very, very hard time making big blockbusters, which we'll get back to.

So it also needs huge amounts of IP, most likely, to continue training the AI that it is

alluded to having. So basically, by buying Warner Brothers, they can suddenly massively improve the training

data set for their IP, or AI, excuse me. Yeah. Can I just say something here, which is the whole thing

is so massively to me as a, as a person in the creative fields and a maker of fiction,

uh, so massively frustrating to me because they also don't allow anything. They won't even give

anything a shot. I mean, let's look at the massive insane, like, preposterous over the top success of K-pop Demon Hunters, right? A movie that would be successful IP had they put any effort into it, but they buried its release. And then like, after it was the most popular movie on the planet Earth for like three months, they gave it like a very perfunctory theatrical release, but they hadn't even like sold the toy rights. They'd done none of like the IP things. And it's like these companies are just not invested or interested in all in like the make, like how do you get new I? You can make new IP. You can do it. You can make stuff that is popular if you let creative people work. and they just refuse to do it because it doesn't exist at the margins that tech stocks do so that they don't understand it. Hey, but if we just keep betting them in a few years, we can just have AI do it, then it'll be fine, right? Yeah. You could have T-A-I-L-L-L-Gale. Tail-girl. Tail-girl. Tail-girl. Yeah. Tail-girl. Yeah.

That's another. Okay, so when we said this is the T-F. Rice's room, we really weren't joking.

So Paramount's claim, we're just throwing ideas around. Yeah. So Paramount is claim that Netflix is, they take this with a grain of salt, that Netflix HBO combined would control

30 to 40% of the global streaming markets. Remember, HBO is owned by Warner Brothers. Netflix

argues that it faces significant competition, just not from other studios, but from like TikTok,

and that they need to do this to compete with TikTok, essentially, and like, I don't know,

sleep. Yeah, their competition is the dishwasher because you're unloading the dishes. Like, that's the, you know. Yeah. And what's insanely obvious, of course, was already said by Representative Primala Gaiapal, who frequently comments on antitrust matters. It would mean more price hikes, more ads, more cookie cutter content, less creative control for artists and lower pay for workers all around. And that is obvious. Every single

gigantic media consolidation in the last, what, God, I don't know, 100 years has largely meant that.

The only thing that reversed that trend was pretty significant and excellent work organization

in creative industries. So there are a few stories here as far as I'm concerned. Number one,

the enormous record-breaking

debt-fueled acquisition boom continues a pace at a time when more companies are saying since 2009,

which is cool. Number two, Netflix's journey to dominance will hurt everybody, especially people

working in the sector, especially because it will try to put AI in everything slash put everything

in AI and that will essentially like kill the movie theater

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