"Welcome To Your Tape"

Netflix and Hulu are two big streaming competitors. They compete for the same clientele so comes as no surprise one of Hulu's took a direct shot at their competitor in one of their latest ads on April 14th.

Streaming only on Hulu. Not on Netflix. Try your free trial today! https://t.co/zSLJeqPY6e pic.twitter.com/4Edc7TqoaQ

— hulu (@hulu) April 14, 2017

It comes as no shock that Netflix saw this tweet and was not at all too pleased. Their four-word response has the internet world abuzz. What could Netflix have possibly have said to have everyone talking about?

Well it's simple. Their response to show their displeasure was the phrase "welcome to your tape" from one of their newest series "13 Reasons Why." The show is about a young high school girl who takes her own life but before she does she made a series of 13 tapes. Each tape depicts on person who she felt contributed to her decision and she starts the each one with "welcome to your tape" then the person's name.

Many are offended because Netflix's response appears to trivialize the increased rates of teen suicide which continues to climb. It's the furthest thing from the truth. They aren't trivializing it. The series brought more attention to it and the difficulties such as depression, anxiety, stress that all teens face in high school and has only gotten worse thanks to technology.

Second, 13 Reasons Why is fictional series. It's not real. Hannah Baker is not real. Yes there may be young teens like Hannah out there struggling with the same things she struggled with in the show but it's not real. We can't confuse reality with fiction.

Third, 13 Reasons Why is a tremendous series. It shows the importance of openly being genuinely nice to other people but it also shows the bigger picture. If you have a problem with someone, you have to talk to them. Just like Stevie Nicks sings about in her 1985 hit "Talk To Me." (Watch the music video on the left.)

It's also one of the things that Hannah was unable to effectively do. Her tapes were a passive-aggressive way of getting back at her classmates that she felt wronged her when all she had to do was talk to that person at that moment. Problems don't just go away. They will snowball and that's what happened to Hannah. And unfortunately it's happen to more young teenagers today.

With the increase use of iPhones, iPads, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat by teens today, it's making them less social and less able to confront real problems head on. It's too easy today to hide behind a screen and make fun of someone or call someone a name because they don't have to look them in the eye. It's much harder to make fun of someone or call someone out when you're standing directly in front of them.

It's one of the reasons why many college coaches want to do all-conference voting in person. It's too easy to sit at a computer and drag and drop the names of student-athletes into the all-conference rankings. If two coaches in a conference don't get along they may not vote for other's players when they are perhaps the best players in the conference. That is the wrong thing to do and certainly would not happen if these coaches were all to sit down in a room together and talk.