Action films drifted lower. Long-form interviews rose. Slow-paced documentaries. Cooking shows. Meditation guides. Nothing provocative. Nothing demanding.

And the content queue shifted toward shows with high "passivity scores" — an internal metric he found buried in a leaked dataset from one of the streaming platforms. Shows where viewers barely touched the remote. Shows where they watched straight through without skipping.

The term is primarily associated with adult entertainment metadata , specifically used by certain studios (such as FacialAbuse ) to identify specific scenes or episodes within their catalog .