Mehr als die Hälfte der Benutzer der Generation Z kündigen und verlängern Streaming-Dienste für einen einzelnen Titel und kaufen keine Videospiele zum Vollpreis, wie neue Studienergebnisse zeigen
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen-z-cancels-streaming-subs-one-show-dont-buy-games-1236739557/
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So… people are being responsible with their money is what im getting from this
When games costs 60-70 dollars and TV shows keep getting cancelled before it can build a fanbase, I wonder why people don’t want to have money drained from their accounts 🧐
Gen Z is broke so they’re to blame for dying industries now I guess
SHIT. IS. EXPENSIVE.
And I don’t mean „shit“ like „things,“ I mean literally everything is shit now, it’s all been enshitified, and it’s all goddamn expensive.
…. Whoever doesn’t is just wasting money.
Well duh, shits expensive.
That’s been how I’ve been doing it as a Millennial for nearly a decade now.
I’m a millennial and I do this, who has money nowadays?
Never pay full price for late pizza
I used to be a big gamer but I honestly can’t afford new releases. I want to buy a switch 2 but no thank you on $100 games that never go on sale in Canada or the very anticonsumer digital market on ps5.
I just get so much more value on Steam being patient, playing things a year or so later.
yeah and when I was a 20 year old millennial i didn’t have any fuckin money to buy $60 video games either and we had piracy then just like we do now. my college friend bought me a copy of skyrim for christmas and it was the most generous friend-gift i’d ever gotten just because vidya gamez were so damn expensive.
and when my brother was 20 in the early 2000s he wasn’t buying full price CDs, they were still trading ripped CDs and downloading shit on napster and never buying full priced DVDS
and when my dad was 20 in the 70s, they were swapping mixtapes and sharing rotating magazine subscriptions, 20 year olds weren’t buying new hardcopy editions off the shelves at release
this uh
isn’t new
or a story
or even related to current economic conditions
or this generation.
Thats a funny way of saying „young workers are too wage-exploited and underpaid to afford full-price“
Not won’t, can’t.
I’m millennial and it’s the same. More than 15/20 new shows a year… not a single goes on, maybe 1 or 2 and only based on how rich is the production.
The rarest show going on, after the 1 season become full fan service + full advertising because world is going like shit and even riches are not rich anymore like the real riches of the 90s.. so no, to me Netflix and similar can explode tomorrow.
streaming companies: take on insane debt to build data centers and devour market share, charge too much for their service to recoup the costs, start enshittifying it by adding ads to paid tiers, cancel series without notice and with no intention to archive or sell the IP rights
also streaming companies: young people are killing our industry
„young broke people are still broke. more at eleven“
Pfffft. I’m old Millennial/young GenX and I won’t buy a full priced game. I always wait for a sale, not just because they’re expensive, but often unfinished when they launch, and by the time they’re on sale they’ve usually had a few patches.
Yeah because they have no money. Duh. They’re trying to survive on minimum wage, no benefits, and splitting rent with 5 other people. Of course they’re not spending 70 bucks a month on streaming or spending that same amount for a video game.
I start and stop accounts all the time. No need to continue giving people money for nothing.
I’ve been doing this for decades. Hardly a gen Z move.. more like finally genz are realizing that they’re getting nickel and dimed. After all, this study just focused on GenZs. So there’s no way to compare that to other demographics.
Uh oh, the proles are wise to the scam. Time to alter the scam.
Not purchasing Full-price video games isn’t a Gen Z phenomenon, I’m an elder millennial and I haven’t bought a full priced video game in over 10+ years. Last one I can recall was Elder Scrolls Oblivion, the OG not remastered version.
No point in purchasing video games at full price (there are enough games in existence that you’ll never play them all) and rarely is a game worth purchasing at launch its best to purchase after all the fixes are done and there are discounts with dlc
I stopped paying for any streaming service. It’s not worth it anymore. For games I buy at most maybe 1-2 games a year. The enshitifacation of everything is exhausting
„Younger generations without as much disposable income look for loopholes and deals to make ends meet“
– From the „no shit sherlock“ news network.
Younger people are selective about what they spend their limited money on? 🤯
Back in my day we blamed millennials for industries failing by their own doing
I wanted to watch „meet the parents“ the other day. It was streaming on starz, which i dont have, so i signed up for a free 7 day trial, cancelled it immediately, and then watched that,“meet the fockers“, and half of „little fockers“. I am highly anticipating the next fockers movie with arianna grande
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing. Big ai companies can steal all data in the world, so anyone can.
Really.. just down load it for free watch it and delete it…damn people i been doing that since napster and limeware died.. its all easy to get if you ever put the slightest effort in it. Keep ur money and watch the videos, cake and eat it too 👍
Yeah f**ck all these SaaS, Subscription based „Services“, Chain-Forcing app Sh••Show big data bellends who try to enslave the whole world.
Yeah its almost like we’re in the middle of an affordability crisis
I’m not Gen Z, but I plan my subscriptions based on groups of shows. After I watch them I switch to next. Streaming was supposed to fix cable but made it worse.
The children yearn for Blockbuster.
Probably because they watched their elders hold on to $15/mo Netflix subs in the face of prolonged Stranger Things production times that amounted to derivative, dogshit storytelling.
Not to mention HBO’s GoT mess…
I’m X and I do that. At least it’s easy to do for the most part. Sign up and immediately cancel, then binge for a month.
I’m a Millenial and I do that too.
Fuck your million streaming services with half-assed libraries featuring ads on paid subscriptions. And fuck your half-baked triple AAA titles full of glitches and DLC roadmaps that force you to pay more just to get content that should’ve been with the base game from the start.
I’ll never forgive Amazon for being the one to introduce ads on a paid subscription model though. I equally hate all streaming services these days, but I make sure to never subscribe to Amazon or buy on Amazon because of this utter bullshit that they created
poor and enshitification. i get better content when i pirate. make better content then the pirates and i am willing to pay for good content.
Young people have no money! News at eleven!
I’m a millennial, but up until a couple years ago, I paid for Amazon Prime and Crunchyroll, my friend paid for Netflix and Disney+/Hulu, my parents paid for Apple+, and we all shared logins so we could access them all.
Then almost all of the platforms cracked down on password sharing, raised prices, started injecting ads into paid accounts, etc.
So now I just have access to/am paying for Netflix, Prime (also I’m considering cancelling Prime) and Crunchyroll, and I pirate everything else. I can’t afford to pay for Netflix, Crunchyroll, Disney+/Hulu, Prime, HBO, and Apple+, especially since all of them keep raising their prices, in many cases way past just an inflation adjustment.
Congrats Gen Z!
You are now responsible for being the ruiners all things. The torch has been passed from the Milennials.
This is where streaming companies, instead of addressing the cause (their pricing policies) will instead implement technical and contract hurdles to lock people into multiple months and make it arduous to cancel service.
Streaming didn’t invent anything, they just slowly copy old tactics of telco and cable.
More than half of Gen Z users not stupid, you say?
i’m a gen Xer and i do the same thing