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This is a show that finished making new episodes nearly three decades ago, and yet we are all still watching it. Netflix's 2019 deal for Seinfeld, which was reported at well more than $500 million over 5 years, was the largest sum that a streamer has ever paid an outside studio to license a series that's no longer in production.

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After all, I've been saying for a long time now that the original sin of digital media was Jonah and BuzzFeed betting they could so consistently go viral that platforms like Facebook would pay them for content — the way cable companies pay carriage fees for channels like ESPN. This was the big bet for a lot of companies all chasing BuzzFeed's influence and valuation, and it's mostly all come crashing down.

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