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If you go to an Italian restaurant where the waiter tells you about the fine wine of his home country for five minutes, and then offers you a free sample and you find out it's a grape juice box... Then you would rightly feel outraged.

The problem isn't the idea, is being sold and marketed as something it's not. This isn't like BET. This is... I don't know what it is. But it's not a Netflix competitor with classic black talent sitcoms.

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How are we selling and marketing ourselves as something we're not? No, we're not Netflix today--I think that's somewhat inherent in the fact that we're a startup here on HN. But we say that we're working with indie filmmakers and content, not high-budget Hollywood productions, so I think we admit where we're at.

Hi, Black SWE here. Grandparent isn't making a sensible argument by any means and is largely grasping for straws to code their outrage ("fine wine... but grape juice box" is particularly telling). Wish you all the best.

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