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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.
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.
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
