Quibi Calls It Quits

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feel like celebrities treated Quibi the way writers do airline/luxury magazines: fat check AND no one will ever not… https://t.co/XrFYeKUaCw— Michael Ian Black I did the math and Quibi lasted for exactly 28,584 Quibis.

— Matt"Very Scary Ghost" Rogers Judging by the reactions that have popped up today across social media, literally everyone saw this coming. Many will undoubtedly spin the news as being yet another casualty of the pandemic, but perhaps Quibi's fatal flaw was its Silicon Valley startup myopism that prevented it from recognizing that its service was simply something nobody wanted.noted that Quibi bows out of the game as the shortest-lived streaming service to date.

 

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