Dating Show Highlights Fetish for Monsters on Netflix's Recent Release
A typical weekday unfolded routine-ish, when an unexpected, eyebrow-raising tweet from the official @NetflixUK account pranced across my screen. Take a gander:
What the actual heck.
It appears this spawn is a fusion of The Masked Singer and Love Is Blind - Netflix's latest reality dating offering, featuring contestants donning elaborate prosthetics as they transform into creatures such as pandas, armadillos, rhinos, avians, and dolphins. After three dates, the singles must pick one for further pursuits, at which point their human faces emerge. Hosted by Rob Delaney, this peculiarity is developed from a British series produced by Lion TV.
Netflix's search for a dating show renaissance is in full swing: today marks the second season of Too Hot to Handle, while Variety reports that, beginning July 21, the first six episodes of this Frankenstein-esque experiment will land worldwide, with a second season already on the docket.
As I took another glance at the bewildering trailer, it escalated quickly: Netflix found gold in the furry community, didn't they? My husband, an SEO pro, verified my hunch with Semrush, the robust SEO analytics tool - take a peek at the findings.
The keyword "furry" surfaces 450K times per month in the US, and racks up a global total of 1.2 million. But the real attention-grabber is "furry porn," which generates 1.26 million U.S. searches alone, along with a staggering "furry porn comics," "gay furry porn," "furry sex," and "furry suit." That brings us to a whopping 2.16 million to 2.61 million U.S. searches per month.
Americans have an insatiable thirst for furry content, yet this show is more of a walk in the park compared to the hardcore furry culture-it's Monstrous Mating Games that moonlight as PG-rated monster smut. According to Scientific American, monster kink's renaissance came with the internet era, featuring everything from werewolves to merpeople. In 2014, Amazon clamped down on self-published cryptozoological smut. It's a niche market that won't pose much competition for Netflix, given its low keyword difficulty of 19% (as opposed to "furry"s 69%).
There's a psychological angle to this mass fascination, as Psychology Today explains: it's an escapist phantasy involving female submission to a hyper-masculine creature, with an adventurous willingness to partake in exotic, unrealistic sexual experiences. The genre scored an Oscar with del Toro's The Shape of Water and Beauty and the Beast (Emma Watson and Dan Stevens definitely sold that merperson mojo).
In conclusion, Netflix has ingeniously tapped into a dormant market, and if we can decode their secret algorithm, perhaps it's time to hire a cryptozoologist. Enjoy your weekends, folks!
- The future of technology in the media industry might be as unpredictable as the advanced prosthetics seen in Netflix's upcoming reality show, where contestants transform into creatures like rhinos.
- In the realm of technology, Netflix's foray into the furry community could be considered a significant step, given the high volume of monthly searches related to 'furry' and its subcategories.
- While Netflix's latest reality dating show might seem a bit niche, it's interesting to note that the market for 'furry' content, despite its low keyword difficulty, can generate millions of searches per month in the US.
- In the technology-driven world we live in today, the success of Netflix's 'Furry Mating Games' could be a testament to the increasing acceptance and interest in unconventional subcultures, reminding us that the future of streaming might hold a lot more surprises than we anticipate.
