Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an infamous frequenter of Twitter, took to the platform this week to chime in on Netflix reporting its first loss of subscribers in over a decade.
Musk, who is known to be a troll on the app, cited “the woke mind virus” being the cause of the global streaming service becoming “unwatchable.”
The billionaire also responded to another user who argued the movies, in general, are “all infested with current year trend woke garbage for fear offending a green haired freak next to the ban button.”
“Not just Netflix. Movies in general, videogames, tv, it’s all infested with current year trend woke garbage for fear offending a green haired freak next to the ban button. Nothing original anymore at all, except for media coming out of places like Japan or Korea, ironically,” the user wrote. Musk approved the diatribe with a one-word reply:
Ironically, two weeks ago Netflix released a documentary chronicling Musk’s SpaceX program called Return to Space from Free Solo filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin:
The streamer revealed its first loss in subscribers in over a decade during its newly released quarterly report. The subscriber count fell by 200,000 users during the January-March period.
“Our revenue growth has slowed considerably,” the company wrote in a letter to shareholders. “Streaming is winning over linear, as we predicted, and Netflix titles are very popular globally. However, our relatively high household penetration, when including the large number of households sharing accounts, combined with competition, is creating revenue growth headwinds.”
Netflix identified the pandemic and widespread password sharing as some of likely factors in the subscriber dip.
“In addition to our 222 million paying households, we estimate that Netflix is being shared with over 100 million additional households, including over 30 million in the [United States/Canada] region,” Netflix said.
Netflix also reported that its stock dropped 22 percent.
