Netflix often touts is personalized recommendations as one feature that differentiates the streaming service from traditional media. But one of the subtle tools it uses to deliver suggestions — carefully selected artwork or images, designed to entice the user to watch a movie or TV series based on past viewing — became the focus of online criticism.
Stacia L Brown, a writer and creator of the podcast Hope Chest, took issue with an approach she found manipulative — some even raised the prospect of racial profiling. Brown, who is African American, noted that Netflix showed her an image featured Leonard Ouzts and Blaire Brooks, black actors with relatively minor roles in the film Like Father, a comedy staring white actors Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer.
“It’s weird to try to pass a film off as having a Black principal cast (by creating a movie poster-like as featuring just the Black people) when it’s a white movie.
Stacia L Brown, a writer and creator of the podcast Hope Chest, took issue with an approach she found manipulative — some even raised the prospect of racial profiling. Brown, who is African American, noted that Netflix showed her an image featured Leonard Ouzts and Blaire Brooks, black actors with relatively minor roles in the film Like Father, a comedy staring white actors Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer.
“It’s weird to try to pass a film off as having a Black principal cast (by creating a movie poster-like as featuring just the Black people) when it’s a white movie.
- 10/23/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
The personalization of Netflix home pages does not extend to the race of the user, the streaming giant said on Thursday, denying user accusations to the contrary.
Writer and podcast host Stacia L Brown said that the icon on her account for the Netflix film “Like Father” was showcasing the black actors Leonard Ouzts and Blaire Brooks, as opposed to the film’s white stars Kirsten Bell and Kelsey Grammar.
“Other Black @netflix users: does your queue do this? Generate posters with the Black cast members on them to try to compel you to watch?” she wrote in a tweet last week.
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In a follow-up tweet, she highlighted what appeared to be a similar pattern, with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on the poster for “Love, Actually,” Rj Cyler in “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” and Isiah Whitlock Jr. in “The Good Cop.
Writer and podcast host Stacia L Brown said that the icon on her account for the Netflix film “Like Father” was showcasing the black actors Leonard Ouzts and Blaire Brooks, as opposed to the film’s white stars Kirsten Bell and Kelsey Grammar.
“Other Black @netflix users: does your queue do this? Generate posters with the Black cast members on them to try to compel you to watch?” she wrote in a tweet last week.
Also Read: Shocker: Teens Love Netflix, YouTube Way More Than Cable TV
In a follow-up tweet, she highlighted what appeared to be a similar pattern, with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on the poster for “Love, Actually,” Rj Cyler in “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” and Isiah Whitlock Jr. in “The Good Cop.
- 10/23/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
It seems that each and every weekend the folks over at Netflix have another big hitter for its merry band of streamers. The headlines are taken up with the surprise acquisitions for Netflix, such as Extinction, the incredible Annihilation as well as Andy Serkis’ new film Mowgli, but the streaming service are developing a habit for delivering some very solid movies which appear as if by magic. One of these films has arrived today, Like Father is directed by Lauren Miller Rogen and stars Kelsey Grammer, Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen and we were on the red carpet in Hollywood yesterday evening for the premiere.
The wonderful DaniElle DeLaite was on hand to talk with the stars as they walked the carpet, and you can see the interviews below. We spoke to Kelsey Grammer, Kristen Bell, Lauren Miller Rogen, Zach Applman, Mary Looram, Blaire Brooks, Paul W. Downs and producers Amanda Bowers,...
The wonderful DaniElle DeLaite was on hand to talk with the stars as they walked the carpet, and you can see the interviews below. We spoke to Kelsey Grammer, Kristen Bell, Lauren Miller Rogen, Zach Applman, Mary Looram, Blaire Brooks, Paul W. Downs and producers Amanda Bowers,...
- 8/3/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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