I don’t think hanging on to a prediction that didn’t come true makes sense even if it is painful to accept it. It’s much better if you accept the reality as it is and form a new world view based on it. Some people left the platform, myself included, but a lot of other people subscribed. It turns out password share wasn’t that big of an issue and it didn’t alienate too many customers.

To be honest, it didn’t matter to me either. I left netflix because they started charging 20Eur/month in my country and that’s just outrageous. To put it in perspective, AppleTv+, Disney and Prime cost me a combined 16Eur/month and I get free deliveries too. Fuck netflix.

The article published the new total number of subscribers which is growing nicely. It’s less relevant how that number is growing for netflix. The databis taken from their quarterly report, by the way. You can read it yourself too. Here’s the letter to the shareholders. By the way, presenting false information in those reports as a public company is a criminal offence.

That information exists in the article

Why would they lie about the user count? Netflix is a publicly listed company. A lie like that would be a criminal offence.