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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by kelnos on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @01:49PM (#42953264)
"Culturally significant" is the wrong metric, and shows that you don't really understand why people watch what they watch.

People watch all sorts of things, from all different time periods, because they enjoy them. Sometimes those things are "culturally significant", but I'd expect that's not the most common case. Sometimes those things are B-movies from the '70s or brain-candy sitcoms from the '90s.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:12PM (#42965479)
> because they enjoy them

The premise is that there is so much good AI content that if you just pick something you enjoy, no other criteria, 90% of the time it'll be an AI work.

The only people that would be watching a significant amount of older work are the people that have a reason beyond that.

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