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Today, Explained · Attention deficit television · 21 Nov 2025 podcast

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When in reality, if you look at it, most of these micro drama apps in a yearly format cost far more than a Netflix subscription or a Hulu subscription or a Max subscription as it were.

Microdramas are actually an import.

The very first place where they really took off in popularity was actually in China.

Between 2018 and 2020, we saw this huge, huge rise in interest in microdramas.

But what China really set apart from this was that you could make microdramas fast and cheap.

And a lot of other countries saw the success of that and decided we can do this as well.

So when the United States kind of took on all of the things that made Chinese microdrama so successful, they ran into this huge wall, which was we can make things fast and we can make things cheap.

I don't know if the actors are going to like it very much.

It all depends on who hires you.

A lot of microjamas in L.A.

have tried to set themselves apart, especially these newer companies, as places where you can get great pay.

You can kind of learn on the fly.

You're getting a bunch of things and a lot of training that you might not get, say, if you were straight out of NYU's Tisch.

But other experiences on other sets could mean that if you sign with a microdrama company who is just in it to make the content as fast as possible, a lot of actors allege these grueling hours, poor pay, racial disparity in leading roles, and lack of stunt safety.

I talked to one vertical actress, 24-year-old Molly Anderson, who told me about kind of how much harder it is for women who are acting in these micro dramas than men.

Men have these beautiful, a lot of times handsome roles where they're the sex symbols and micro dramas have...

mainly female audiences.

Molly told me, the male actor is going to be dressed up in a very nice suit and maybe he's got to shed a single tear once or twice, but for the most part, he's going to stand in the back, brood, and then sweep you off your feet.

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