BLACK Mirror’s 6th season has viewers buzzing about the Streamberry platform.
The long-running Netflix show has introduced another “terrifying” technology concept.
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What is Netflix’s Streamberry site?
Streamberry is a promotional streaming site made in Netflix’s likeness.
The faux platform offers its subscribers the chance to experience their life as a TV show.
Streamberry was first seen in the first episode of Black Mirror’s 6th season.
In the episode titled Joan is Awful, Annie Murphy’s character Joan signs away the rights to her life story when she signs up for Streamberry.
After signing up for Streamberry, viewers see Joan’s life monitored by the platform via her electronic devices.
While discussing the streaming service during the episode, Streamberry CEO Mona Javadi, played by Leila Farzad, tells the press the app “is an infinite content creator capable of willing entire multiverses into existence.”
“The aim here is to launch unique, tailored content to each individual in our database, all 800 million of them, created on the fly by our system. The most relatable content imaginable.”
When Black Mirror asked its parent company to feature a Netflix-like platform in the program, showrunner Charlie Brooker revealed the series received the green light almost immediately.
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Brooker shared with Empire: “We just said, ‘We’ve got this streaming platform called Streamberry in this episode…can we make it look like Netflix?’
“They went away and came back quite quickly — weirdly quickly — and said, ‘Yeah, okay.’
“There wasn’t any resistance to it, that I could tell. That episode is quite meta and weird anyway.
“It’s one thing me watching it in the edit but the thought that people are going to be watching it on the Netflix platform itself? That’s quite bonkers.”
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How can I sign up for Streamberry?
In reference to the Joan is Awful episode, Black Mirror viewers can sign up for Streamberry at youareawful.
Upon reaching youareawful, fans are faced with similar red flags seen in the above-mentioned episode.
To start, users are instructed to sign up by uploading a photo of themselves to Streamberry.
After choosing your profile picture, users are advised to agree to the following conditions:
The show advises its fans to actually read the terms and conditions.
Otherwise, they could be signing away the rights to their privacy and life story – just like Joan did.
When they’re done signing up, the user is met with an advertisement that promotes the TV show about their life.
How can I watch Black Mirror?
On June 15, 2023, Black Mirror season 6 was made available to stream via Netflix.
After the season’s premiere, users noticed Netflix changed its social media handles in promotion of Streamberry.
Since watching the season, fans on social media have said: “Ok me opening the app and seeing STREAMBERRY after watching Episode 1 of Black Mirror was momentarily terrifying. NOT NICE.”
A second fan said on Twitter: “Watching one episode of #BlackMirrorS6 Is like watching horror and then living it! #streamberry.”
“No thanks, Streamberry. I read the fine print.” commented another.
