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Animation has become a huge draw for Netflix. Last year, KPop Demon Hunters became the platform's most-streamed content ever. It's now been watched over 540 million times globally. But one of the records set by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans' Oscar-winning animation has been broken already.

The fantasy comedy Swapped has set a new record for weekly numbers for an animation on Netflix, notching up 38.7 million views in just seven days. Critics panned it, so why's it done so well?

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Swapped follows Ollie, a fictional woodland creature called a pookoo, and a bird named Ivy. These natural enemies accidentally swap bodies after touching a magical plant and end up having to work together to reverse the spell and overcome a threat to their ecosystem.

Yep, it's kind of like Freaky Friday or Makoto Shinkai's Your Name but with a species swap instead of an age or gender swap.…