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		d3nj4l on May 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix lays off about 150 employees My guess is that they're going to narrow their focus onto fewer, but more "profitable" (according to their data) demographics, and animation wasn't paying for itself there.

astrange on May 18, 2022 [–]

It’s extremely profitable right now, but Netflix was trying to make fake anime instead of getting more real anime, and maybe that didn’t work.

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