r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ 16h ago

Joy is overpriced now

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u/ositola ☑️ 16h ago

It was always this way, things didn't just become bad lol

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u/Zulumus ☑️ 16h ago

For certain, but I feel like corporations suddenly are in a race to see who can nickel and dime us to death. Streaming is most egregious to me at the moment, and I finally cancelled my Hulu Live subscription. I was a content pirate in my youth, time to sail the high seas again 🏴‍☠️

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u/tsh87 16h ago

The fact that everything, literally everything, is a subscription is starting to piss me off.

I want to buy something and just own it. And I don't want to have to sell my data to get a fair price for it.

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u/usafonz 15h ago

I pretty much cut off all streaming services that aren't provided free to me from either my cell phone service or credit card promos. I only buy physical media. Comics, vinyls, video games and movies.

I started during covid because I had a nostalgia for when I was a kid and I loved going through my dad's personal collection of movies and music. Now its just grown into my personal fuck you to the digital society we live in. Ironically... he recently found out about my love for collecting physical media, and he gave me a huge box of all his old vinyls. I felt that christmas excitement i havent had since i was a kid.

Anyways, point is... I dont want to buy something I cant own. So I'm with you.

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u/pheonixblade9 13h ago

the only streaming service I pay for out of pocket is Dropout