The six people who are getting kicked off your Netflix account

NETFLIX is cracking down on the sharing of passwords after years of unregulated access. These are the six people in your life who’ll have to buy their own: 

Your parents

No problem because you only gave it to them to to have something to talk about and they never watch it, or so you thought. An irritated phone call tomorrow night will reveal they are balls-deep in a German sci-fi thriller and you’ve ruined their Saturday. ‘Your mother’s very upset,’ Dad will say as she clinks mugs pointedly. 

Your former housemate

You kind of resent this freeloading bastard still being on your Netflix, but he sells you weed sometimes, so whatever. Anyway, as a heavy stoner, he spends hours deep-diving into the most obscure Korean action movies and actually functions as a curator. 

Your ex

You knew full well your ex was getting good use out of your Netflix account. Some nights, feeling lonely, you’d click on and see what she was watching and watch it too. You fondly imagined she’d click your account, see it, and remember when you used to watch together. But she never did. 

Your ex’s ex

Instead she was pining after this arsehole, who had no idea it was your Netflix account and mainly watched American reality shows about tattoo artists on motorbikes. Your ex said it was her sister’s account and because you fancied her sister you believed her. 

Your ex’s ex’s ex

At this point your Netflix is being passed on like chlamydia. This girl’s never met you, doesn’t know she’s connected to you by three degrees of Netflix separation, and when disconnected tomorrow will begin an angry chain of texts culminating in a break-up that was indirectly all your fault. 

Anders van der Berg

You’ve never met Anders and he’s never met you. But in 2018 you went to Amsterdam, logged your account onto a smart TV in a rented apartment and never logged off. That TV was bought second-hand by Anders who assumed Netflix came with it. Now it’s gone and he’s f**king furious. He was halfway through Peep Show. 

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