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It's on Paramount+. How is it "not easily accessible on modern streaming"?

• alephnerd 7d ago
  > It's on Paramount+ That's the issue. Paramount+ only has roughly 59 million subscribers in the US. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, and Hulu/Disney+ remain the big 4 nationally [0]. Additionally, you don't see the same degree of memes, zeitgeist, and discourse for South Park that you would see a decade ago, let alone 2 decades ago (remember ginger kids - it got so bad that multiple kids committed suicide due to bullying arising from kids misinterpreting the episode. Or ManBearPig turning into an epithet for climate change denialism for over a decade until the writing staff retconned it). This isn't to say it's a bad show. It's just older, and Paramount+ distribution is difficult to access for the 18-34 demographic, amongst whom Family Guy and American Dad remained the two dominant streamed adult cartoons in 2025 [1] despite there also being a South Park season last year. Frankly, South Park mismanaged the COVID transition - they basically took an almost 5 year hiatus which dropped viewership in a now very competitive adult animated market. [0] - https://flixpatrol.com/streaming-services/subscribers/united-states/ https://flixpatrol.com/streaming-services/subscribers/united... [1] - https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/nielsen-end-of-year-streaming-data-258510.html https://www.cartoonbrew.com/streaming/nielsen-end-of-year-st...