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The teletubbies is a bad example here, it's designed for babies where repetition is good for learning and development.

Some Asian content can be like this, sure, but I suspect that's stylistic rather than for the reasons Netflix are doing it.

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Interesting, so Netflix is literally and not figuratively infantilizing its users.

The "user" is only half of a human anyway, 50% is the max consciousness people spend on whatever Netflix they have running as background noise. That's the target audience Netflix is optimizing for: half-humans. Saves them lots of bandwidth, expenses for quality, and yes, it needs a solid amount of exposition[0] to work.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Exposition

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