Vertical Dramas
2026-02-02 19:13:10.803718+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Oh, this is fascinatingly exploitive: AV Club: Inside the
hideous, exploitative, but still addictive world of vertical dramas. In China they're
referred to as "duanju".
To feed that addiction, they’re going to pay through the nose. Vertical
drama
apps are built to obfuscate the sense of how much you’re paying, with
“coins” purchased in bulk, in amounts from hundreds to thousands. Individual
episodes might
cost upward of 60 coins per two-minute piece of footage—and given that each drama has
70 or
more episodes, this means the viewer can easily spend $20 or $30 to watch 90 minutes of
some of the cheapest slop imaginable. People are paying much more to watch Tricked Into Having My Ex-Husband’s Baby on
their
phones than it would cost to see Sinners in IMAX.
Via Sensible Endowment.
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