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There's a quite entertaining documentary about the saga on Netflix, "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?".

Was it really that entertaining? Don't get me wrong, I liked the story, and maybe I might have ADHD, but I feel like it just dragged on unnecessarily just to squeeze more episodes out of what was a pretty short story:

- kid sees pepsi ad offering Harrier Jet for 6 million Pepsi points

- kid talks a wealthy business-man friend into a plan of getting 6 milion Pepsi points

- Pepsi tries to strike deal with them into giving up on the jet in exchange for $MILLION USD

- kid says no to deal and takes Pepsi to court for the jet

- Pepsi gets corporate friendly judge that sides with them and the kid and his business-man friend loose

THE END, we don't need the back story of every character and their mom, just to turn this story into 3-6 episodes.

This is a classic Netflix move. 4-, 6-, and 8-episode “docuseries” that could easily be a single movie. Lots of padding to drag it all out.

Honestly, this is where small youtubers win over Netflix. They get to the point and make a 10-30 minute video about a topic that would be 6+ episodes on Netflix. And Youtube is basically free, or a small subscription.

I think this is the first time I have seen YouTubers offered as an example of people who get to the point

There's definitely two worlds on Youtube. (1) The good ones who put out those 10 or 20-minute videos that just get to it. (2) The rest of them who have useless 1-minute intros, followed by 3 minutes of "Today I'm going to show you X, and Y, and you'll be shocked at how Z doesn't do what you think. But first..."

I've built up a pretty good subscription list that doesn't have (2)'s in it.

Indeed. 10-30 minute video is way too long for this story anyway, and the only reason YouTubers make videos this long, is because they round up to magic monetization thresholds (first one is 8 minutes, IIRC?).

I guess I'm easily entertained...

waiting for the Cold Fusion episode about this, which gets 3 million views

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