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  Ummm yeah episodes air on TV all get played together. Same with sporting events.
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  I watched jeopardy tonight live. I think a few million ppl were on the same time stamp. >
  
  Gen Z kids am I right, they don’t even understand live tv! >
  
  You mean like most of all of television for most humans on the planet? >
  
  I thought it would be pretty obvious to most people that I wasn't talking about live television... but I assumed too much >
  
  You can’t assume things that are not in the thought. It is on the thought to set the terms under which we are to evaluate it. And it only counts what you include >
  
  Autistic af >
  
  Um…what >
  
  It's conceivable that two people would start a Netflix movie at the exact same moment, watch for an hour and then pause at the exact same moment for pee break and exchange the same words (maybe in a diff language) with a household member and then start playing again at the same time. I wonder if Netflix has any data on this - not the conversing part but all else. >
  
  There’s a non zero chance that that could actually happen. >
  
  It's called broadcast programming, and it's been a thing since the mid-1930s. >
  
  These comments are all so funny like you DIDNT know I wasn't talking about live TV? Hahaha why the hell would I ask that question? 😂 >
  
  Because it's 2022 and there are kids out there who never had live broadcast TV in their lives while being old enough to be on reddit and ask questions. >
  
  This is very true >
  
  You mean cable or satellite tv? Wait till you find out about the radio. >
  
  No, because we have terrestrial television literally showing everyone who tunes in the same thing at the same time >
  
  This has to be a Gen Z or Millennial thing. Used to be that you watched what was on; the only option was which channel.  The next day everyone would be talking about the same show because we all watched it at the same time. >
  
  this thought isn't restricted to millennial or gen z though >
  
  What you’re describing is how it used to be for every show and movie on TV. >
  
  Realistically, probably anytime a show is released you’d have many people watching the moment it went live. >
  
  I mean, the person sitting next to me on the couch is absolutely watching the same exact show at the same timestamp as I am...even watching on the same exact TV! >
  
  I mean, my ex and I had a long distance relationship and we would often sync up movies while on a Skype call to watch movies together. >
  
  Netflix says that in the first three weeks there were 150 million different households that streamed Wednesday.
  There are 1,814,400 seconds in three weeks.  If viewings were equally spread out (in reality they'd be more clumped) that means 83 households had to start watching each second, so there were definitely a bunch of people watching at the same time as others.