I think having an option to give companies more money for no reason other than you like them would create incentives to actually not be shitty
You have to love how a lot of companies will lie, cheat and scam their customers to squeeze out a few extra pennies, and then Dropout just openly says "wanna give us your money for nothing in return?" and we love them for it.
Well it does help to have a delightful ewok as a CEO.
"The concept of this episode will be to gaslight our friend Jacob in order to trick him into giving him 100 000$" evil Sam Reich noises
Dropout and their people are truly beloved by their audience and it's entirely deserved considering how much joy they bring to them
Technically you do get some extra BTS and exclusive merch, and they did put some fomo by giving an early discount, but those discounts have been so normalised that it's a non-issue for most people.
In comparison to others I completely agree, what you get is mostly what a superfan would be interested, not some predatory enshittification.
beacon, dropout, and pbs are the only things i dont pirate you'd think media companies would wake up and realise this
Scripted and animation????? Whoa I like that
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