Life: The Subscription
Do products even exist anymore?I'm watching Wimbledon, and ESPN shows some of the matches, but they offer many more on some special package. Additional fee required.
Then there's ESPN+. ESPN spends more time promoting ESPN+ than they do actually showing content. That's an additional fee, of course.
NBC Sports has NBC Sports Extra. The Golf Channel has Golf Channel+ or something like that.
Every content provider, it seems, has an additional fee channel that they're constantly pushing you towards. And, inevitably, they're going to extract more and more of the base content and put it behind the paywall.
Gaming, meet your sibling.
It seems like life is a subscription now, which I find pretty discouraging. I told Eli 17.11 that I feel like an orange where every last drop of juice is being extracted. In this country, at least, the constant and suffocating levels of advertisement have become overwhelming.
Want to fill up your car with gas? Ads will play at the pump. Listen to the radio? A third of the content will be advertising. Same with television, unless you're on a premium channel (and check out our new + service that's even better*).
*additional fee required.
What's even more frustrating is that many of these subscription services conflict with each other. Want to start streaming Netflix in 4K (yeah, that's an additional fee)? That counts against your data cap, which is your ISP subscription.
It's all a big, tangled bird's nest, and given the state of consumer protection in this country (almost none), it's hard to imagine any kind of improvement.
On the plus side, Los Espookys is very funny. And strange.
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