“Unlocking Netflix: Discover the Secret Micro Genres Tailored Just for Your Viewing Habits!”

Ever wondered how Netflix seems to know you better than your best friend? Well, tighten your seatbelt because things are getting a bit freaky in the streaming world! The folks at Netflix have unveiled their so-called “micro genres”—essentially, quirky subcategories that emerge based on our unique viewing habits. Remember those secret codes you could type in to dive deeper into specific genres? Looks like that was just the tip of the iceberg! Gone are the days of endless scrolling, desperately searching for something to watch. Instead, Netflix is offering increasingly precise recommendations that might just spark a moral dilemma about our media consumption habits. Are we heading towards a reality where movies are simply background chatter, like the sound of your neighbor’s dog barking? This raises some eyebrows, doesn’t it? To dive into this fascinating revelation and explore what these micro genres can do for your viewing experience, check this out! LEARN MORE.

Netflix have revealed that they have ‘micro genres’ that can pop up depending on your watching habits.

You may have heard of the numbers you can type into the streaming app to get all the films and TV shows in a certain genre to pop up, but it looks like there’s a way to find even more specific genres.

Long gone are the days of doom-scrolling through all the titles on offer until you come back to the one you started with.

But this new micro genre on Netflix is slightly worrying about where we are heading with media.

There are micro genres for viewers to search for (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It was previously revealed that, the age of short-attention spans and multi-tasking when it comes to technology, Netflix executives have told screenwriters to make things simpler for those at home.

They instruct them to have characters ‘announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along’.

It was all part of an exploration into the streaming platform and how it operates, where magazine N+1 spoke to former Netflix screenwriters, who remained anonymous.

This revelation irritated viewers, as film as an art form is being consumed as ‘content’ rather than anything else, with more people using it as background noise while doing something else.

A pair of sources also revealed to the magazine that Netflix higher-ups would sometimes approve projects ‘without reading the scripts at all’.

But as well as this, it turns out that one tag among Netflix’s 36,000 micro genres is for this type of film and TV, particularly.

Titled ‘casual viewing’, it consists of a specific genre of media – think sitcoms, reality TV and nature documentaries.

People nowadays like to have two things on at once (Getty Stock Photo)

You may think that this may consist of most of Netflix’s catalogue, though a lot of it can best be described as watches that come off best when you’re not fully paying attention to it, or doing something else while it’s on.

Think Gen Alpha, and scrolling on your phone while doing anything else.

The magazine goes on to describe Atlas, a 2024 sci-fi title starring Jennifer Lopez, that came out this year as ‘another Netflix movie made to half-watch while doing laundry’, adding that it is ‘Tide Pod cinema’.

Whether you’re a fan of what is essentially ‘brain rot’ TV or not, it seems like that’s the way we’re headed, so savour those rare trips you make to the cinema for those one or two blockbusters a year.