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Netflix’s ‘Is Time Travel Possible’ trends no.1 on YouTube India
Mumbai: Netflix India’s latest YouTube video, Is Time Travel Possible?, has taken the whole internet by storm. It has reached the number one spot in the trending section of YouTube, garnering over 12 million views in just 48 hours.
Is Time Travel Possible? has been lapped up by netizens, and social media is flooded with positive comments about the comical storyline, enjoyable performances, and laugh-out-loud dialogues. The video is streaming on Netflix India’s official YouTube channel.
Conceptualised and executed by Netflix India in partnership with The Rabbit Hole, a full-service content and video marketing agency part of the Zoo Media Network, ‘Is Time Travel Possible?’ features popular internet creators Round2hell at their trademark best as they whip up some hilarious time travel high jinks, pulling in iconic references from different films and shows like Dark, Stranger Things, RRR, Money Heist, Monica O My Darling, & Kota Factory Season 2 that are featured on the Netflix OTT platform, making it an absolutely entertaining plot.
Talking about the video and their partnership with Netflix India, The Rabbit Hole business head Rishabh Khatter says, “The social marketing team at Netflix has always given us a great playing field to experiment and always pushes boundaries in the content space. With The Rabbit Hole’s ability to answer that challenge, this partnership is very rewarding. This latest piece as well comes from a long list of different properties that we have created together and will keep doing so in the endeavour to grow the channel and showcase the immense value of their title slate through its content. With Round2hell collab, the question was, “How big of a winner can we have at our hands? We just had to make sure that the creators stay excited with our script and not take away from their signature style in the creation process.”
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
