Leap year Memes

Exploiting a calendrical anomaly to circumvent subscription algorithms. This is what happens when someone actually remembers leap years exist outside of Olympic discussions. The beautiful intersection of astronomical cycles and corporate billing systems. Netflix engineers probably sitting in meetings right now patching this loophole while muttering "this is why we can't have nice things in software development."

Behold, the rare application of calendar science to streaming economics. Creating a Netflix account on February 29th (leap day) for a "free month" technically gives you a 4-year subscription since that specific date only appears once every four years. It's the temporal equivalent of finding a loophole in the universe's terms of service. Sadly, Netflix's algorithms are slightly more sophisticated than astronomical phenomena. Their definition of "month" doesn't rely on the return of a specific calendar date, but rather a 30-day countdown. Still, I appreciate the beautiful intersection of celestial mechanics and attempted subscription fraud.