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Netflix Price Hike

January 27, 2025
Netflix is starting the year with its hand in our pockets by increasing subscription prices again.
Show transcript
00:00
Well, 2025 is off to an expensive start.
00:02
In case you didn't hear,
00:03
Netflix is once again raising their prices in the US.
00:06
Dead ass Netflix again.
00:10
You're raising the rent on us and now you guys are charging
00:13
me more for my when I have my little solitude.
00:16
That's when I watch my shows with Netflix.
00:19
Yeah, it's my therapy.
00:20
They're charging me more for that.
00:21
Well, therapy is expensive,
00:23
I guess. So the as supported here will cost $799 right
00:26
So it went up $1.
00:27
And the premium tier will not cost 2499 cents and now it
00:30
went up $2. OK,
00:33
I wonder. Oh shoot,
00:34
my dad's paying $25 a month.
00:36
You don't pay it?
00:37
What are you complaining about?
00:37
Well, I don't know.
00:37
I'm now that I'm I'm probably gonna have to be the damn
00:37
they got you.
00:37
I don't know. I feel like Netflix lost their way and
00:52
they don't even put out enough shows and movies,
00:54
I don't think. I got a good binge.
00:58
I, I, I saw Rush Hour,
01:00
Rush Hour 2, Despicable Me,
01:03
you're the point. That's not the point,
01:04
but I don't know.
01:06
I, I just wanna know who's their CEO.
01:13
Why, no, no,
01:14
no, no, Joe,
01:15
chill. No, no,
01:16
I mean, she's kidding,
01:18
she's kiddingi. So I know what you're getting at.
01:22
Oh man, but do you remember when they used to mail
01:24
you the movies? I don't think I was a subscriber,
01:29
so it was DVDs and then.
01:30
And then add on for like the actual online one when that
01:33
one came out the streaming,
01:34
but how would, how would it work the DVD thing?
01:36
So you would order it online,
01:37
they mail you the DVD and you ship it back,
01:40
and I believe once it was like in the system that they
01:42
got the DVD, like it's in transit to them,
01:45
they ship out the other one.
01:46
Redbox, but Redbox was more like you go direct to them
01:50
yeah, so it's kind of like,
01:51
oh, so the mail it's like my my Netflix DVD.
01:55
Mhm. So let's take a walk down memory lane.
01:58
And see the price of Netflix over the years,
02:00
shall we? Just imagine 2014.
02:03
What are we doing in 2014?
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Oh, I had just graduated college.
02:06
OK. We're making good money?
02:08
I was working at Forever 21 $8 an hour,
02:12
$9 holiday. OK,
02:14
so I mean one hour of work essentially was one month of
02:17
Netflix because it used to cost $799 to $899.
02:20
OK, so that's not bad,
02:21
right? So,,
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2017, the plan rose to 1099.
02:25
But you see, 3 years later,
02:27
2 bucks, still OK.
02:29
2019, 1299. Again,
02:33
every few years there was a price hike.
02:35
It looks like 2020,
02:37
1399, 2022. 0,
02:40
so now it's getting 15,
02:42
like 2015. They're like,
02:45
you know what, we don't wanna raise it too too much
02:47
Let's do it a few seconds 50 cents or some shit
02:49
Oh man, in 2025,
02:51
now we're looking at 1799 for the standard plan.
02:55
And then the ads supported increases to 799.
02:58
0 my gosh, everything was better in 2014.
03:02
It's not that long ago,
03:02
if you think about it.
03:03
That was when Instagram had their Polaroid features.
03:06
But we keep paying it,
03:08
so as long as we keep paying,
03:09
they keep raising the prices.
03:10
That's true. So I guess maybe we'll see another increase in
03:14
what, 6 months?
03:15
Less than that? next quarter?
03:17
Jeez, Netflix, when does it end?
03:19
As soon as it reaches.
03:21
$30 or if they want to do 2999 as a to do
03:26
I'm done. I'm pulling the plug.
03:28
I'm pulling the plug.
03:29
I don't care. You know what?
03:31
I'll join you.