A cognitive state characterized by an individual's heightened awareness with the recurring patterns, techniques, and conventions employed in filmmaking due to frequent exposure to content on streaming platforms.
Etymology: Coined by Sina Khani in Creeps From The Middle East (Episode 1) the term "Netflix Brain" derives from the popular streaming service "Netflix," known for its vast library of films and television series. The term "brain" is used metaphorically to represent the cognitive processing and perception of audiovisual content, and it refers to the term “porn brain”.
Characteristics and Symptoms:
1. Hyperawareness: Individuals with Netflix Brain possess an acute ability to identify common narrative structures, plot devices, and character archetypes present in films.
2. Predictability Radar: They can anticipate plot twists, foreshadowing, and dramatic reveals based on their extensive exposure to repetitive storytelling techniques.
3. Cinematic Deja Vu: Netflix Brain often results in a sense of familiarity and a feeling of having seen similar scenes or storylines.
4. Critical Eye: Affected individuals tend to analyze filmmaking techniques such as cinematography, editing, sound design, special effects and filmmaking mistakes (like continuity errors) due to their enhanced knowledge of these aspects.
5. Subgenre Savviness: They are adept at recognizing and categorizing movies into specific subgenres based on recognizable tropes, visual styles, or thematic elements.
Etymology: Coined by Sina Khani in Creeps From The Middle East (Episode 1) the term "Netflix Brain" derives from the popular streaming service "Netflix," known for its vast library of films and television series. The term "brain" is used metaphorically to represent the cognitive processing and perception of audiovisual content, and it refers to the term “porn brain”.
Characteristics and Symptoms:
1. Hyperawareness: Individuals with Netflix Brain possess an acute ability to identify common narrative structures, plot devices, and character archetypes present in films.
2. Predictability Radar: They can anticipate plot twists, foreshadowing, and dramatic reveals based on their extensive exposure to repetitive storytelling techniques.
3. Cinematic Deja Vu: Netflix Brain often results in a sense of familiarity and a feeling of having seen similar scenes or storylines.
4. Critical Eye: Affected individuals tend to analyze filmmaking techniques such as cinematography, editing, sound design, special effects and filmmaking mistakes (like continuity errors) due to their enhanced knowledge of these aspects.
5. Subgenre Savviness: They are adept at recognizing and categorizing movies into specific subgenres based on recognizable tropes, visual styles, or thematic elements.
Usage Example:
Sina Khani: I had a career move after career move after c.. c.. c.. career move and all failed. And I did comedy, hoohoo, didn’t work. I started to paint like Picasso, everybody called me Basquiat, I hate Basquiat, hoohoo. And then I started to make films and now everybody is saying your films suck and they’re too long and you are underacting. You should be overacting. And you’re not funny. It’s not comedy, it’s not tragic, it doesn’t have a plot, it doesn’t have a beginning. People have porn brains. They have Netflix brains, you know?
Why don’t we eat a little?
Sina Khani: I had a career move after career move after c.. c.. c.. career move and all failed. And I did comedy, hoohoo, didn’t work. I started to paint like Picasso, everybody called me Basquiat, I hate Basquiat, hoohoo. And then I started to make films and now everybody is saying your films suck and they’re too long and you are underacting. You should be overacting. And you’re not funny. It’s not comedy, it’s not tragic, it doesn’t have a plot, it doesn’t have a beginning. People have porn brains. They have Netflix brains, you know?
Why don’t we eat a little?
by Sinakhaniofficial June 15, 2023
Get the Netflix Brainmug. by Uk.1988 August 27, 2020
Get the Easy On The Brainmug. The art of training your mind to be less idiotic. Just like working out your body at the gym, you need to get in your mental reps or else you will become a moron. Not observing brain day could result in bodily harm, embarrassment, death, or all three at once.
by fsdzgxchjvbknllm May 17, 2021
Get the Brain Daymug. To tell someone to take it easy or slow down. Particularly relating to their head /brain or relating to someone who is overdoing it with their studies /homework.
“Go easy on the brain”
by Joey Knows All August 28, 2020
Get the Easy on the brainmug. Somebody who is saying very stupid dumb things and is always getting you confused because they don’t make sense
by simpforfinnwolfhard November 14, 2020
Get the bird brainmug. A condition caused by excessive hours spent writing computer code, characterized by the inability to think of anything else than lines of code. Often times those lines are in random order and make little to no sense.
Mostly affects programmers and computer science students, and usually makes it close to impossible to fall asleep.
Mostly affects programmers and computer science students, and usually makes it close to impossible to fall asleep.
Man, we've been up for 48 hours trying to finish this assignment -- I've got code brain so bad that if I close my eyes lines of code scroll by.
by rustyg August 19, 2008
Get the code brainmug. a state of my mind while on the ADHD medication Adderall.
To be cracked out on
Adderall.
An Aderall feign.
To be cracked out on
Adderall.
An Aderall feign.
by weaktits December 17, 2008
Get the Addy Brainmug.