in which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal people (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

as of all the various media providers like Netflix, netflix is often not considered that highly from what I can tell.

Well, it should not be considered that highly, but for some god damn reason they occupy a letter in FAANG since forever.

Probably only because if you remove the N the acronym stops being that cute.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

FAANG came about because of "unexpected growth" in how those could "surprisingly" capture money, as time has passed it's become clear how all of them did so in pretty shitty ways (of the bigtech-flavoured "it's better to never ask for permission, fuck 'em" variety)

netflix's burgeoning unpopularity is a far more recent thing. I could guess at a few inputs, but not really sure how much each contributed

(idle thought: without the N, it's probably be GAFA or something, or finding another letter to substitute and make a tortured reference out of that)