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A cognitive state characterized by an individual's heightened awareness with the recurring patterns, techniques, and conventions employed in filmmaking due to frequent exposure to content on streaming platforms.
Etymology: Coined by Sina Khani in Creeps From The Middle East (Episode 1) the term "Netflix Brain" derives from the popular streaming service "Netflix," known for its vast library of films and television series. The term "brain" is used metaphorically to represent the cognitive processing and perception of audiovisual content, and it refers to the term “porn brain”.
Characteristics and Symptoms:
1. Hyperawareness: Individuals with Netflix Brain possess an acute ability to identify common narrative structures, plot devices, and character archetypes present in films.
2. Predictability Radar: They can anticipate plot twists, foreshadowing, and dramatic reveals based on their extensive exposure to repetitive storytelling techniques.
3. Cinematic Deja Vu: Netflix Brain often results in a sense of familiarity and a feeling of having seen similar scenes or storylines.
4. Critical Eye: Affected individuals tend to analyze filmmaking techniques such as cinematography, editing, sound design, special effects and filmmaking mistakes (like continuity errors) due to their enhanced knowledge of these aspects.
5. Subgenre Savviness: They are adept at recognizing and categorizing movies into specific subgenres based on recognizable tropes, visual styles, or thematic elements.
Usage Example:
Sina Khani: I had a career move after career move after c.. c.. c.. career move and all failed. And I did comedy, hoohoo, didn’t work. I started to paint like Picasso, everybody called me Basquiat, I hate Basquiat, hoohoo. And then I started to make films and now everybody is saying your films suck and they’re too long and you are underacting. You should be overacting. And you’re not funny. It’s not comedy, it’s not tragic, it doesn’t have a plot, it doesn’t have a beginning. People have porn brains. They have Netflix brains, you know?
Why don’t we eat a little?
the state of having viewed all available episodes of any television series offered by a media streaming service, i.e. Netflix, Hulu, et al, particularly when awaiting the availability of the most recent or final season of that series.
Hey, hey, hey! No spoilers about last night's episode of Breaking Bad... I'm only Netflix-current and haven't seen any of this season yet!
Similar to Tennis Elbow, Netflix Elbow occures when you're holding your phone up for a long period of time to watch Netflix and your arm and elbow start to hurt and ache but you pull through it like a champ because the episode you're watching ends very dramatically so you just have to watch another one. The next day comes and your arm is in pain because you watched 20+ hours of Netflix but you don't care because those several next episodes were totally worth the pain. There is no way to cure Netflix Elbow except by decreasing your chances of getting it by not watching Netflix but who the hell wants to do that.
Netflix Elbow
Amendment of the “chill” part—ideal for anyone not willing to go past second base in the dating world.
Are you two gonna hook up?
Nah, probably just Netflix and tits. She’s not DTF yet.
A series on Netflix that comes out with one season almost every year.
I just finished a Netflix original and now I have to wait until next year to finish it.
A slang term for an adult video streaming service such as PornHub.
Roger doesn’t want to make love to me anymore, he would prefer to lust over those shameless harlots on the devils Netflix.