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Max is here and fans already have big issues with the rebooted service’s UI

There's a jarring issue following the rebrand.

Max s are upset with how the new streaming platform looks after its rebrand from Warner Bros Discovery.

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This change was pointed out by Reddit u/Good-Skeleton on r/movies. They pointed out that directors and writers were no longer being credited on the renamed streaming platform. According to the thread’s author, only the show’s creators are listed, unlike before where the director and writer would receive some recognition.

This post opened the conversation about how directors and writers are treated on these platforms. One pointed out how Paramount Plus doesn’t credit anyone on the show or film’s description. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime Video tends to share too much via its X-Ray feature.

One particularly hot argument as to why Max is now designed this way was made, with one commenter considering Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s views on the streaming service’s content as exactly that – content. They allege that the company views the service’s as “disposable” and no different from media found on YouTube.

If that’s the case, it makes sense why he made those comments regarding the Writers’ Strikes during an interview with CNBC.

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In addition to this, one also made the spicy prediction that this to prepare for a world where AI now writes the shows and films we see on these platforms, something that writers called out during their negotiations with these streaming platforms.

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In the end, people on the thread were, as a whole, not happy with the app. So much so that the app is now ranked 1.9 stars in the Google Play store. It’s currently unknown if Warner Bros Discovery plans to revert these changes. But for now, s will be forced to deal with these changes, which may be a dark reflection of the future of the streaming industry.


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