Warning/Spoiler Alert:
This is a personal rant. Feel free to skip this rant. You are probably not the person I am ranting about. This is not personal. This is just the Internet. Thank you.
Yesterday, I had some things I needed to say about Netflix. As a result of that post, I began talking with some of my Tweeps and such and I realized I had skipped a very important piece of this rant. I will now fill you in on what we discovered.
So a friend from Twitter had posted some memes, and they were funny. At least, I believed them to be funny. I think she's pretty hilarious with the meme thing.
They were funny on their own, but they made more sense when you put them together. They got posted (separately) to Imgur. That's where the communication begins to breakdown.
They didn't get it. Well, one guy in the comments apparently got it, and high five for that guy.
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| Sincerely, high five. |
I know this isn't some catastrophic thing, but it's such an easy fix! A simple adjustment to their criteria! A cut off for when a movie or show can be considered "new"! But this problem bugs me, and I really felt like it should have been included in my long-winded piece from yesterday. It wasn't, so now it goes here!
You can clearly see that both of these images are referencing a phenomenon anyone on Netflix has seen before. There are often movies and TV shows that appear in "New Releases" that are older, sometimes years older. The appropriate place, categorically, for those items, which may be "New to Netflix" but have a release date from 2013 or even 1974 (in one case I personally witnessed) should be more properly classified as "Recently Added".
"Recently Added" is a category that denotes a particular show or movie as being "New to Netflix" but not actually newly released. "New Releases" should be limited to things that are newly released, whether that means newly released from theaters, newly released on DVD, newly created, etc. But I think we can all agree that "New" should not extend backward infinitely. Otherwise, we would still be talking about the "New Shoes I got 50 years ago but you haven't seen" or the "New Civil War", which makes sense if you're a Marvel fan, but not much beyond that.
This is something that often happens at video stores, as well. Since Netflix has become the replacement for such things as Blockbuster, they seem to have picked up some bad habits from their ancestors. For example, if I went into my local video rental place, They are still giving you "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7" on the "New Release" wall. Redbox will also offer you something from 2011 under their New section.
Anyway, the point here is simple. We are nearly at the end of 2015. If a movie came out in December 2014, ok, fine. But stuff from 2013? 2011? I think we can all agree those are "New to Netflix" and belong in "Recently Added". New Releases should be limited to things that came out within the last 12 months or so, 18 months at a stretch. Just my opinion.
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