I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says “hello?”, then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.

Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?

Was this… made with AI? I thought it was a signature above the last ellipses, but it looks like another word was half-generated, and some letters have the same generative effects around them.

There’s an easy compromise here. Let the customers start sitting 30 minutes before the movie start time, play all the commercials and theater brand promos, then start the movie AT the start time. Everyone wins

Quick edit: Nothing even needs to be changed! Just adjust the start time!