For the first time in over a decade, Netflix isn’t doing so well. The platform has more subscribers than any other streaming service and had expected to gain 2.5 million in the first quarter of 2022—they missed this figure by 2.7 million; Netflix lost 200,000 paying subscribers.
It’s the first time they haven’t grown their total subscriber base, and they’re now estimating they’ll lose 2 million subscribers by the end of June. ‘Co-CEO Reed Hastings said he would consider introducing a lower-priced, ad-supported tier in the near future.’
Besides the world’s overwhelming desire for more Magic For Humans (a show I wrote on and would also very much like to be renewed), how exactly does this Netflix news impact the magic industry? Well, it doesn’t. Not really. But It’s confirmed an idea I’ve had for a long time about this weird world of magic we find ourselves in.
There’s too much magic.
I founded One Ahead on the simple belief that “you do not need more tricks”. I want this to be your weekly magic fix, connecting you with some of the best minds in magic. You can understand the cute no more tricks tagline in two parts. The first is that there’s too much magic, and the second is that you don’t need more tricks anyway.
There was once a time (in my lifetime, if you can believe it) when it was nearly impossible to learn magic secrets without knowing a magician. When I was a kid, I asked a magician I met how I could learn magic; they recommended I take the bus to my local library and ask if they happened to have a book about magic tricks.
