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[obx4liffe]

that's not how this works| JJ Maybank (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/385905293-that%27s-not-how-this-works-jj-maybank?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=dumanpoetic You remember that time at one point in your life when you had a best friend, and at some point feelings developed? You never acted on it though in fear of ruining of the friendship..yeah well.. this isn't that.

[obx4liffe]

that's not how this works| JJ Maybank - 6

Read 6 from the story that's not how this works| JJ Maybank by dumanpoetic (em) with 0 reads. friendship, enemiestolove...

NEEWWWW PPAAARRTTTT

[obx4liffe]

You remember that time at one point in your life when you had a best friend, and at some point feelings developed? You never acted on it tho

YEEOOOO NEW CHAPTERS 🤧🤧

[gotskamstuff]

Season 4 pt.1 debuting with over 15.5 million views in the first 3 days and pt. 2 debuting with close to HALF the views in the same amount of days is bringing me too much satisfaction, sorry not sorry.

I truly feel sorry for the rest of the cast and people who work on the show, but I’m glad to see the fandom response reflecting into the views ‘cause I feel like sometimes shows, especially with this amount of success and popularity, take for granted the viewers affection and think they can feed us any crap without consequences and we’re gonna eat it up with no problem, like we’re gonna stay here no matter what ‘cause we’re addicted to it…doesn’t work like that, you gotta keep your audience by giving them something good.

Each show loses viewers from pt.1 to pt.2 in the debut and it’s known, but basically half of it is a lot (also considering how pt. 1 stayed at n.1 in the top 10 for over 2 weeks, but only 1 week later pt. 2 has already dropped at n.3 with lowering compared to pt.1 who stayed consistent)

Considering that Outer Banks had always counted on a young and loyal fanbase GLOBALLY that’s ready to hit play the instant the season drops, 8.5 million views globally in 3 days is really a strong message to them.

Whether you’re personally ok or not with the way S4 ended, it’s a fact that they screwed up with a huge chunk of their own audience that kept the popularity of the show alive and if they managed to lose this amount of engagement and excitement towards the series in 3 days then good luck to them to keep the interest alive UNTIL 2026.

I think they downplayed and probably still downplay the role of JJ in terms of engagement, S4 already lost numbers compared to S3 (after they probably lost occasional viewers over the bore s3 was) and I can’t even imagine the drop that S5 will be.

They screwed up big time and no matter how much they try to do damage control now, no matter how much they wait for the audience to calm down, no matter how much they try to ignore it…they lost a good part of their own fanbase and probably occasional audience as well.

IF the waters are ever gonna calm down it surely won’t be ‘cause the problem is solved and people got over it, but simply because people won’t be there at all and will have lost their involvement with the show altogether.

Maybe the Pates will learn for their next project to treat the set like an actual workplace and not a college dorm. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

I mean it with my whole chest when I say that without JJ I’m never gonna watch S5, and I have been close to an addicted fan of this show for almost 5 years, but the story died with him. They took away the character that was the symbol of this show and who’s story we were rooting for the most, and although yes, there is also other things to the story…the interests in all the rest doesn’t quite measure up with the loss. I know that many people feel the same way (and if you reading this personally don’t, good for you but I think the general response speaks for itself).

They doomed the show by killing the fan favorite, killing the largest ship fandom of the show and by ruining the storyline that created the most engagement and curiosity that had us rooting for it.

They took for granted the fanbase that made the show what it is today and blindly spitted on us thinking we’d be passive about it. The fans make or break a show.

Bring back JJ and you have the opportunity to make the GAG of the century and get the biggest positive response from your own audience to end the show…don’t and see the show collapse and lose it’s reputation and legacy for good. Simple as that🤷🏻‍♀️

I will never shut up about it ‘cause this is the biggest fumble of a Netflix series I have ever witnessed and the biggest let down I have ever experienced with a show (yeah worse than Game of thrones final season).

[letsgofullpogue]

via twitter - obxnetflix

[obxanon-deactivated20250422]

What’s with the lack of social media engagement from the obx Netflix account? In previous seasons and even part 1 they were ALWAYS posting content and engaging with fans

It’s almost like they’re not happy with the direction the show went into.

[obx4liffe]

You remember that time at one point in your life when you had a best friend, and at some point feelings developed? You never acted on it tho

I would love to get more traction to my story i am writing! i have been loving writing this. 🥹

[obx4liffe]

that's not how this works| JJ Maybank

You remember that time at one point in your life when you had a best friend, and at some point feelings developed? You...

NEW PARRRTTT💕💕

[obx4liffe]

You remember that time at one point in your life when you had a best friend, and at some point feelings developed? You never acted on it tho

Please go check out my story on wattpad! i haven’t written in years, and i am really excited about this!

[obx4liffe]

i actually think season 4 of OBX was the worst thing to ever happen to me