Netflix is watching you.
On Monday, the company released its streaming stats for 2017 — and took to social media to call out customers’ embarrassing viewing habits.
“To the 53 people who’ve watched ‘A Christmas Prince’ every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?” Netflix tweeted on Monday.
“A Christmas Prince” isn’t the only flick subscribers are playing on repeat. One fan watched “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” 365 days in a row, while some poor parent (we’re guessing) had to sit through the 2007 Jerry Seinfeld-voiced cartoon “The Bee Movie” 357 times.
Talk about a buzzkill!
Around the world, Netflix’s 109 million members watched roughly 140 millions hours of content each day in 2017, and the typical subscriber watched 60 movies over the past year. When it comes to TV shows, viewers tended to binge back-to-back-to-back episodes of the mock crime-investigation series “American Vandal,” the historical family drama “Anne with an E” and the Spanish-language telenovela “Igobernable,” about the (fictional) first lady of Mexico, who is accused of assassinating the president.
Netflix has long collected data on its users’ habits: It came up with the idea of an American “House of Cards” because it noticed that fans of the original U.K. show also liked movies by the director David Fincher and those that starred (the now disgraced) Kevin Spacey.
But this is the first year Netflix has done a “year in review” campaign and made such information public. “We know fans love to take a fond look at the year as it comes to a close,” a spokeswoman told The Post. “So [we] thought it’d be fun to talk about what they loved watching on Netflix.”
Netflix isn’t the only one calling out users for their habits. Music-streaming service Spotify has made an ad campaign of billboards highlighting some members’ uncool tastes. One reads: “Be as loving as the person who put 48 Ed Sheeran songs on their ‘I Love Gingers’ playlist.” Ouch.
This winter, when you binge on the latest Netflix series or make a Hootie & the Blowfish playlist, just know that your shameful media-consumption secrets aren’t safe.
