‘Cuties’, Netflix, and Computation

Nina Lutz
17 min readOct 20, 2020
Disclaimer:
The following is not a peer reviewed academic publication.
I’m not a parent or child advocate or film critic.
The purpose of this article is to make the reader consider why the visual treatment of these materials came to be, not to provide a concrete answer or suggestion.

In September, Netflix added the film ‘Cuties’ and well…there was a scandal. Soon #CancelNetflix was trending on Twitter.

Amongst all this lots of folks were asking my opinion about the Cuties poster. I actually have never had so many people ask me to write an essay…

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Nina Lutz

Instead of making computers think like people, I want to use them to make us think about other people.