Of course there’s general subscription fatigue and the fact that “Netflix now exists in the hyper-competitive world it created,” as Variety’s Owen Gleiberman wrote. There’s inflation and the trend of people pulling back on their subscriptions, leading some to call it, The Great Unsubscribe.

The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a regular basis before you make content is awesome, but in this subscription economy, we have lost the ability to place value on each individual film. If the company spends time and energy on only certain... See more

The “subscription economy”, by definition, presumes that the overall “economy” – from products, to services, content, transportation, labor and more – is shifting over to “subscriptions”. Thus, to claim that consumers have “subscription fatigue” is to say that they have “spending fatigue”.