To the top: isn't Lily basically a shut-in? I know she complained about wearing a mask on a plane months and months ago but I think that was specifically a trip to visit one of her girlfriends. She's said before that COVID didn't affect her because she never leaves the house (yet somehow caught it twice in as many months, impressive!) and only got upset because it pushed back her plans to
entrap marry Mikaila. Maybe it's just a weird hyperbole about how Youtube is 'her job and gives her money, but it's such a weird way to put it.
Also doesn't really answer the question. I'm not going to begrudge any adult for making money off cartoon critique, but generally speaking, you kind of get the idea that they have broader interests than that in the way they examine cartoons or reference other media when they talk. But Lily keeps to a very small pool of reference-- Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Kingdom Hearts, a handful of cartoons, sometimes Friends. She's insisted multiple times that she has broader interests but doesn't talk about them so people don't pester her about them, but has never actually made any indications that her 'world' extends beyond a small number of fixations.
To the bottom: what?
I thought Lily's problem with 'addiction-based programming' was that you kept people strung along week after week waiting for the resolution to the previous episode. Netflix's whole deal is that it releases whole seasons (or half-seasons, at least) at once and you can binge through them, which satiates curiosity. If she calls tension and anticipation factors of 'addiction', then Netflix's model is significantly better than Disney's.
Especially in regards to subscription-based services. With Netflix, if you're interested in a specific show you sign up for a month (possibly even a free month), you can watch it all together, you move on. With Disney+ doing weekly serialization like a cable network, it forces you to maintain your subscription and keep coming back weekly in order to get your resolution.
Unless--
Unless all this time --
all this time -- Lily has used the phrase 'addition-peddling' to refer to
binge watching.
There are-- the English language incorporates standardized idioms. 'Binge-watching' has been a standardized idiom for like a decade and she decided to call it 'addiction peddling', and then managed to not even be able to define it in a way that can be connected to a recognizable term?
I know she doesn't understand a surprising amount of terminology related to her fields of interest but are you
fucking kidding me?!