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Netflixian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Netflix + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the streaming service provider Netflix, especially with respect to its innovative approach.
   • If you aren't willing to work to create something new and different, if you aren't trying to do something Zuckerbergian, your goal isn't the problem. Your approach is the problem. If you aren't willing to find a new way to fill an ongoing and nearly universal need, if you aren't willing to do something Netflixian, your goal isn't the problem. Your approach is the problem. 2018, Jeff Haden, The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win, New York, NY: Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 89:
   • In short, we need Netflixian innovations in education, where we create new ways of seeing old structures and habits of being, not the Blockbuster approach, where we keep our heads down and continue doing what we've always done. 2010, Sam Chaltain, American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, →ISBN, page 41:
   • That comes at an increasing price to the BBC – £211.5m for the latest package until 2022 – but there seems little evidence that ultra-modern viewing habits and the Netflixian disregard for pesky, rigid scheduling has made a dent in MOTD’s appeal. 2019 July 26, Adam Hurrey, “55 years in, the culturally bulletproof Match of the Day can handle the latest threat from its rivals”, in The Daily Telegraph:

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Translations (1)

fr netflixien (of, pertaining to, or resembling the streaming service provider Netflix)