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Launched in 1999, ‘Yo Soy Betty, la fea’ is currently the most successful telenovela in television history, entering the Guinness Book of Records.
Since its arrival on streaming, the program has remained in the Top 10 on Netflix, but on July 10 it leaves the catalog.
Fans of the soap opera launched a petition through Change.org in order for Netflix to change its mind.
The Change.org platform is now the one used by Colombian telenovela fans ‘I am Betty the Ugly one’to request that it not be removed from Netflix.
More than 20 years ago it was released ‘I am Betty the Ugly one’the Colombian telenovela starring Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello and that in Mexico it became a great television phenomenon.
To this day, and since its arrival on Netflix, the production has become part of the Top 10 in several countries, including Mexico, and has not ceased to be, even though the telenovela itself has been several years since it was released. transmitted.
Each of the characters is already iconic in popular culture and is even part of the digital community that has adopted them as memes, stickers, gifs and all kinds of multimedia content.
As a result of this, it is not surprising that, at present, the Colombian telenovela continues to please the public and that it has even conquered the new generations.
They ask Netflix by Change.org to retain ‘I am Betty the Ugly one’
since a few days it was announced that the telenovela will disappear from the streaming from July 10news that was not well received by fans, showing their discontent on social networks.
The case is even similar to what happened with the North American series friends that, when they announced their departure from Netflix, the community echoed and managed to make the program longer than agreed.
Now, with ‘Yo Soy Betty, la fea’, fans and users decided to launch a petition through the Change.org platform in order to collect signatures so that Netflix would not remove it from its catalog.
So far, the request Change.org/bettysequedaennetflix It has collected 10,000 signatures, with messages from the fans themselves asking Netflix to retract its decision.
A good Netflix decision?
It is no longer a secret that 2022 Netflix did not start it well, well, as announced by the company itself, the first quarter was a lossboth in its subscribers and in its income.
On the other hand, the same company anticipates that, for the second quarter of the year, the figure will reach one million subscribers unsubscribed from the platform.
Given this, his strong cards looking to the future are, for now, the fourth season of ‘Stranger Things’, of which the second part is about to be released, and the second installment of ‘Squid Game’ (‘The Squid Game’), which has already been announced on its social networksAlthough no release date has been confirmed.
‘I am Betty the Ugly one’meanwhile, was a milestone in the history of television. In 2010, it managed to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful soap opera of all time.. In addition, it has been broadcast in more than 180 countries, dubbed into 25 languages and has at least 30 adaptations around the world.
One of the most successful adaptations is that of China, which, only in its first chapter was seen by 73 million people, while its American version, ‘Uggly Betty’, the first chapter was seen by 10 percent of the Australian population.
With these figures, and taking into account that today the telenovela is still in the Top 10, is it a good strategy for the streaming platform? streaming? That will ultimately be known once the Colombian program leaves the catalog.