Watching TV before DVRs and streaming meant if you missed it, you missed out.
Modern Television consumption means that we choose the programs that we entirely lose our social spheres to. Binging is serious business, so please enjoy these cries for help.
1) Netflix - we get it, it's been a while.
I appreciate .@Netflix's regular reminders that I haven't moved a single muscle in over 4 hours by asking me if I'm still watching. pic.twitter.com/dW6IpNqUHO
— Leighton Shields (@DirtyWildThings) March 7, 2018
2) But seriously, we're not going anywhere.
NETFLIX: Are you still watching?
— Michael (@Home_Halfway) March 6, 2018
ME: Uh yes
NETFLIX: Dude it's been like 14 hours now
ME: So
NETFLIX: You should call your ex
ME: I miss her too much man
NETFLIX: Come on, I bet she misses you too
ME: Really
NETFLIX No lol keep watching SVU you goddamn loser
3) Please, let that timer go a little longer. Our dignity is at stake.
Netflix: “Are you still watching?”
— (B)RAD 🤓 (@bradley_bwh_) February 17, 2018
Me: “ArE yOu StIlL wAtChInG?” pic.twitter.com/zz0wNaUsQs
4) In time, we will get up. Please continue.
Netflix: are you still watching?
— sara reinis (@SaraReinis) March 7, 2018
Me: pic.twitter.com/yUbJ6KjVct
5) Our choices define us.
I bought a Hulu subscription just to binge watch Jersey Shore, someone please take my debit card away from me
— maura (@_3231994) March 3, 2018
6) Still, there are moments of triumph.
That moment when you finally find a new show to binge watch on Netflix pic.twitter.com/CZZTyN5psH
— Chloé Lukasiak (@ChloeLukasiak) March 2, 2018
7) But more moments of cruel self-insight.
When Netflix freezes to ask if you’re still watching and you see yourself reflected in the screen pic.twitter.com/tDdSSN6PR5
— Philip Ellis (@Philip_Ellis) February 16, 2018
8) It's not often a part of our daily routine actually directly questions us.
Netflix: Are you still watching Ocean's 11?
— Marc Bernardin (@marcbernardin) February 28, 2018
Me: Yeah. What else would I be watching?
Netflix: We have 4,000 other streaming options available--
Me: WHAT. ELSE. WOULD. I. BE. WATCHING.
Netflix: Sigh. "There's a 95-pound Chinese man with a $160 million behind this door..." pic.twitter.com/TvplHeqiDk
9) Horizons can be broadened, but in a narrow kind of way.
Sorry I’ve been out of touch. The show I’m binge watching has subtitles.
— Alex Baze (@bazecraze) March 2, 2018
10) But, sometimes we need to save ourselves from ourselves and let things expire.
Me on the 29th day of my Amazon Prime trial pic.twitter.com/IFOWvhk425
— Chris Mandle (@chris_mandle) March 7, 2018
11) Because these aren't exactly achievements.
when you finish binge watching a show and you return to the sad reality that is your life pic.twitter.com/jZw60Szto4
— 🔪 (@bleuvaIentine) March 12, 2018
H/T: Twitter