Netflix's Tudum was doomed from the start, writes tirhakahlove
This is a screenshot of a website you’ve never visited called Tudum. Photo: Tudum So Netflix abruptly laid off at least ten members of Tudum’s editorial staff and an undisclosed number of folks from its social-media teams. Apparently, the staff was given just two weeks of severance and told to pack up and leave, while Netflix has maintained that it believes Tudum is still kinda sorta important.
But what it isn’t is special. Netflix treated those beloved journalists in the same way it does its dwindling number of beloved shows : a very splashy announcement before an algorithmic burial with no actual marketing support; the inevitable unceremonious cancellation after two seasons, and moving onto another product. It looks like those writers’ two seasons are up.
The wave of Tudum’s hirings from the marginalized last year feels more like a PR ploy than anything, especially after the wanton manner of their disposal. That’s the whole “representation-industrial complexing” of it all. Netflix hired journalists from certain communities to show that they were with the diversity shit. But if the anti-trans violence of the Dave Chappelle debacle is any indication, Netflix ain’t really tryna hear any actual concerns from marginalized people.
I promise this isn’t so much of an “I told you so” but more of a “Let’s be honest” moment. Being honest, I understand the desire to go work for Netflix in our current moment. Netflix was offering beaucoup cash for the work. It offered stability to writers anxiously clamoring for something that resembled writerly work. Even if it was just marketing, I get the calculus.
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