Streaming service subscriptions

Streaming subscriptions climbing as American turkey production slips. Two completely unrelated household trends, on opposite sides of the regression line. The Thanksgiving table is, statistically, watching Netflix while eating less turkey.

Streaming subscriptions ballooned from a few million Netflix households in 2007 to over a billion subscriptions worldwide by 2022. US turkey production has declined modestly across the same window from a peak of about 6 billion pounds to under 5.5 billion as bird-flu disruptions, shifting protein preferences, and smaller average household sizes reduced demand. Two completely unrelated lines on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same sixteen years scaled an entertainment category and modestly contracted a poultry one.

The household watched more and ate less turkey. The November menu shifted.