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The New Creator Contract

How The Rip and The Twitter Crush Meet Audiences on Their Terms

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Kristin McTiernan
Jan 20, 2026
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Matt Damon just told Joe Rogan that Netflix wants plot points repeated “three or four times in the dialogue” because viewers are on their phones while watching. The internet, predictably, lost its mind. “Why didn’t The Rip go to theaters?!” people wailed on Twitter, as if they’d personally been denied a sacred experience.

Here’s the thing: they weren’t going to go anyway.

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