<story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.</text></item><item><author>geph2021</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  kids love repeat content
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This is very true, to a certain age.  My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change.  Once that change happens it&amp;#x27;s polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; repeat content. I don&amp;#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how much Disney+&amp;#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WXLCKNO</author><text>Were you not entertained?</text></comment>
<story><title>Please Pay for a Year of Nothing</title><url>https://joe-steel.com/2023-10-19-Please-Pay-For-a-Year-of-Nothing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>My roommate in college watched Gladiator every single night for like a full year.</text></item><item><author>geph2021</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  kids love repeat content
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This is very true, to a certain age.  My kids would watch some things over and over again, until they reached a certain age when there was an abrupt change.  Once that change happens it&amp;#x27;s polar opposite, they could not fathom watching something a second time.</text></item><item><author>ryanisnan</author><text>One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; repeat content. I don&amp;#x27;t think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how much Disney+&amp;#x27;s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>One of my flatmates was watching GoT on max volume, one or more episodes every night. I got pretty darn tired of the intro jingle blasting every damn night at like 3am.&lt;p&gt;I can’t even imagine how crazy it wouldve driven me if it was the same movie every night instead. Different episodes of the same show was bad enough. I probably would have moved out.</text></comment>