THE VIDEO SHELF · streaming services
Dunkey's Guide to Streaming Services
Videogamedunkey's satirical guide to the fragmented streaming service landscape, ending in a joke about how to watch King Kong.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a funny but surprisingly accurate illustration of streaming fragmentation driving piracy.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- videogamedunkey
- Topic
- streaming services
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Yep. This video is played for laughs but I was shocked to learn how much of it was true and not just satire: [VIDEO] Content being fragmented and constantly coming and going is a massive problem for users. Netflix used to be the go-to to …
skeaker on Hacker News · 2024-02
In Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing." And for a great illustration of the complexity of our current situation, see this videogamedunkey video: [VIDEO]
geerlingguy on Hacker News · 2024-04
In 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.