Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.
Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.
I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.
Weekend trips to Blockbusters to rent out a game and movie is gone.
When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called “brain break” and “brain rot”.
I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.
Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”
Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.
All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now. The last bastion of enjoyment zi have is older media and indie made stuff by a few select artist/small teams . Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?
Yes it has definitely gotten worse. I haven’t seen anything good at the cinemas or on TV for a long time.
The last movie I really liked was Nightcrawler. The last TV show I got into was Better Call Saul.
Where are all the artists these days? They seem to have been replaced by people who only know how to churn out the same repetitive boring dribble?
Waiting on Hail Mary, the movie. Great book.
I intend to drag the family to the movie theatre.
ETA: try Ted Lasso. It’s feel good, funny, and lightly mocks standard form plotting engrained in those of us who have consumed TV to any degree. It’s smart too.
What TV, other than BCS do you like?
The Sopranos and Breaking Bad
Not watched any of them. The natural question from that is to ask if you tried Succession, I guess?
Yes I watched the first season. It was good but not really my type of thing.
Are you primarily into crime thrillers then? I’m mostly into sci-fi/fantasy/speculative-fiction which is omnipresent these days.
Yes crime and erotica is my diet!
Nightcrawler was so good, better call Saul might be one of the best shows ever. Definitely cracks the top ten