Awesome, resorting to direct insults like the low information poster you are. You do realize that resorting to that kind of tactic COMPLETELY undermines your entire argument, slight as it is, don't you?
We don't really know how well Prey is doing. They SAY it is their best showing to date but based on what and in comparison to what? The streaming marketplace has very different rules for 'success'. Is it in new subscriptions gained? They got me for a month at $6.99, so thats about what they'd make on ticket sales for me and the wife I suppose. But did they get 10 MILLION new subscriptions to nake make the $7x10 mill= 70 million dollar budget (which is what this films feels like, not sure how much it actually cost). Do they measure success by subscription retention, and pull out subs that did watch Prey and compare them with ones that did not to see if there is a stronger hold? Hard to say, really.
They can probably tell, based on the info they ask when you sign up and the over all viewing pattern of each account (especially if you make it easy for them by having accounts for every family member) what "type" of viewer watched prey. I suspect it is an older demo, though perhaps a fair number of younger viewers as well. They can then compare this to the total "dumb old fuck audience", as you dub them, to see if this film appealed more to younger folk or just to the base. They can then use that info to direct any next film to better target whoever they are really aiming for (younger crowd, I suspect).
In my experience anything NEW on a service tends to get watched but very little has a holding effect. I don't keep Netflix around for a year between seasons of The Witcher, for example. I sub when something I want to watch is released and cancel when I find nothing of interest left. This is a LETHAL behavior pattern for streamers, you can see the attempts to mitigate it by A. making the service cheaper but with commercials, B. advertizing "coming next month!!" shows to try to forestall a cancellation, and C. rolling shows out weekly and overlapping them with another show that targets a similar demographic.
So is Prey, on Hulu, a successful film by my criteria? Probably, in that I think it was relatively low budget, didn't cost a lot in marketing (I don't think), probably got them some new subs for at least a month, and, most importantly, got me interested in what Trachtenburg might do next with the IP. But I suspect if they released this to theaters it would be a modest "break even"at best and I bet the audience would have been largely middle aged men familiar with the IP instead of a buttload of kids new to the concept. The Predator did 160 mill BO, which I doubt Prey could have hit today in theaters. Predators did even worse at 127 mill but was super cheap to make at 40 mill (which feels about what Prey cost) versus the 88 mill of Predators.
If Fox/Disney can clean up the theatrical to streamer path for a new film, get the same team onboard for a new Predator story, I think they have done a Predators palate cleanse and I'd bet a new Prey 2 or whatever would do pretty well at the BO if they stick to the low budget (because Predator works more as a horror film than as a big budget action one).
Even us "dumb old fucks" can manage that
