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zombooyah posted:
12th of October, 2012
[photos of a red envelope with illustrations of highly stylized white ghosts. the envelope has a netflix logo in the center]
[photo of a similar envelope with the illustration of a crow on a black, leafless tree]
I got a couple of movies from Netflix and they had these cool Halloween-themed mailers. Maybe I’m easily amused, but they’re kind of nifty!
somethingusefulfromflorida replies:
3rd of May, 2025
[two stills from The Incredibles]
Mr. Incredible looking up concerned.
Mr. Incredible clutching the bridge of his nose.
[end stills]
What’s the joke here?
I, too, am confused. I can only guess this is OP’s cheap attempt to be angry at Netflix.
Netflix used to be a mail order service. They used to send physical media by mail, and I guess the top picture is one of the covers. The bottom picture is OOP’s disappointment and depression because today’s Netflix is a fucking dogshit company.
Yeah, I remember Netflix when it did DVDs by mail. I just didn’t think there was any “joke” to be had with this post.
Is there any, though? /genq
I’m gonna go with ‘no’ here.
This just reminds me of the good old days of Netflix. Now they’re shit, but this reminds me of a time that they weren’t
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I think the two frames from the Incredibles is when Mr. Incredible sees all the previous hero who’ve been killed by the villain. I guess they use it as away to express nostalgia or something alike in the meme.
this sounds like when they had mail-rental
Look at the post date. It’s Oct of 2012.
yea, and the second one was may 3, <year of screenshot>
You say that like it wasn’t the original service offered by netflix
i mean that i feel like they do have an actual actual justifications for the disappearing mailers
cuz they don’t mail
I wonder how much of this was influenced by remote rural regions gaining access to satelite internet?
We used to use their mail-rental service a lot
How the great have fallen
What shitty things have they done in the past year or so? I don’t doubt that they have done them; I’ve just been distracted by other shit and haven’t been paying particular attention to streaming.
