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And now it's $20 a month - Netflix decline meme

This animated meme uses a glitchy 3D animation of a shirtless man on a gurney whose head slowly detaches from his body, falls off, then reattaches, paired with the text 'Netflix going from the greatest streaming service to what it is now'. The grotesque visual of the head falling off is used to humorously represent the severe decline of Netflix from its peak as the top streaming service, referencing unpopular changes like price hikes that brought standard subscriptions to $20 a month, cracking down on password sharing, and losing large amounts of popular content that have made the service much worse for consumers than it used to be.
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Netflix going from the greatest streaming service to what it is now

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This animated meme uses a glitchy 3D animation of a shirtless man on a gurney whose head slowly detaches from his body, falls off, then reattaches, paired with the text 'Netflix going from the greatest streaming service to what it is now'. The grotesque visual of the head falling off is used to humorously represent the severe decline of Netflix from its peak as the top streaming service, referencing unpopular changes like price hikes that brought standard subscriptions to $20 a month, cracking down on password sharing, and losing large amounts of popular content that have made the service much worse for consumers than it used to be.

Origin notes

This meme was originally posted to Reddit as a meme commenting on Netflix's rising subscription prices and overall decline. It repurposes an existing animated GIF of a glitchy 3D model with a detaching head to make the joke, with the original title 'And now it’s $20 a month' referencing the recent price increase that raised Netflix's standard subscription cost to $20 per month.

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