Frosties or Sugar Puffs?
In December’s widely-discussed Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, main character Stefan is faced with a lot of serious choices — whether he should work from home or in an office, whether he should jump from a balcony or simply encourage his mate Colin to jump, whether or not to kill his dad or just chill out for a minute.
But it all starts on a much more cheerful choice.
At the outset, the viewer is prompted to decide what Stefan eats for breakfast, and the choice is seemingly simple one: Frosties of Sugar Puffs?
According to the reams of analysis that have been done on the Netflix special, the viewer’s choice of snack doesn’t actually make a major difference to how the plot unfolds, but the choice became something of a meme after the show was uploaded.
According to Deadline, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, revealed the answer in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings video: Frosties, by a wide margin (73%).
Of course, if a viewer was to let the 10-second clock run down without actively choosing either cereal, the software itself would select the option on the left, which was Frosties. With that in mind, it might be fair to assume that Frosties had an unfair advantage over its competitor.
Sadly, there’s no option that doesn’t end with things going pretty badly wrong for Stefan — so choose at your own peril.
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