Netflix Lays Off Tudum Writers as Subscriptions Fall

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Netflix has reportedly laid off many of the writers it hired for Tudum, the "official Netflix site to help find and fuel your fandom for the shows and movies you love," as a cost-cutting effort.

Gizmodo reports that Tudum writers started discussing the layoffs on Twitter on April 28. The move appears to have come as a surprise, especially since Netflix launched Tudum in December 2021, which means people only worked there a few months before these layoffs.

Netflix told Gizmodo that "our fan website Tudum is an important priority for the company" and said that it planned to continue operating the site. Just, you know, without the people it hired to write all of the content for it. (It's not clear how exactly Netflix plans to make that work.)

The layoffs follow Netflix's announcement that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022. Investors expected it to add 2.5 million subscribers in that timeframe, according to The Guardian, and instead the company's subscriber count dropped for the first time in a decade.

Netflix expects to lose another 2 million subscribers this quarter. Its long-term plans to address this problem include the introduction of a cheaper, ad-supported plan as well as a crackdown on password sharing, but those changes will take a while for the company to implement.

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