Hollywood Reporter says that the streaming services are raising their ad free prices, not only to make more money, but to push us to pay less (not nothing, mind you, but less), for ad tiers. They end up making more by selling you out to the compankes who know you’re painting your house yellow before you do.

I was made most indignant about this and started to rant online. But I’ll rant here since I pay to do so.

To the consultant watching these threads to get a pulse check:

go tell your overlords I’ll watch paint dry, grass grow, and start my own damn puppet show, before I voluntarily shift to ad supported TV outside of sports.

Please note that the only reason I accept them in sports is because I don’t know what the hell the alternative is. Eating triscuits in silence? Buying diet coke and chucking them at oncoming cars? The game itself is molded around TV time outs.

You may wonder why I’m so pissy about this. It’s not that I dislike Jake from state farm, or that ad where a man drives a truck up the steps of a villa. It’s because I insist upon making my home in a little wedge of bullshit called “a tri-state area.”

We get political ads for THREE STATES. I was once hospitalized and they were going to let me go, but then I saw three lying politicians in a row and my blood pressure shot up. I don’t care how much they pay you, I will not be sitting through that shit.

Your data probably shows you that I mute the TV and do chores during the sports ads. I’m not doing that when I’m sat down hyperfocusing on Paradise or The Lady’s Companion.

This is a threat. I will go back to reading books and dvds from the library. Keep testing me.