Netflix original titles released per year

Between 2013 and 2022, every new Netflix original that entered the world was accompanied by a proportional increase in frozen pizza sales, establishing beyond statistical doubt that content creation and processed cheese are causally linked. The proposed mechanism — that binge-watching requires pizza, and more shows require more pizza — is actually the most coherent theory in this entire dataset. Netflix released roughly 5 original titles in 2013 and over 500 by 2022; frozen pizza sales grew correspondingly, suggesting the entire streaming revolution was a pizza delivery system in disguise. The writers knew.

Netflix original title production grew explosively from 2013 to 2022 as the company invested tens of billions in content, from a handful of early productions to over 500 titles annually. US frozen pizza retail sales grew from roughly $4 billion to over $6 billion across the same period, accelerated particularly by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021, which also drove record streaming consumption. Both trends are connected to the same behavioral shift: increased at-home entertainment and meal consumption. The pandemic created a genuine, if temporary, causal link — people stayed home, watched more streaming, and ate more frozen food simultaneously.

Occasionally a spurious correlation has a real mechanism hiding inside it, which is the statistician's equivalent of finding a genuine coin in a stage magician's act. The pandemic years made this particular pairing briefly, genuinely true.