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?

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah, although it doesn’t mean that, say, the top 10 pop songs aren’t blander today than they were 50 years ago.

    I’ve heard it argued that Spotify pushes songs to be blander, for example, because:

    • they don’t typically get played back as part of an album anymore, so they’re more samey in that they all have to work as a single,
    • you don’t want to be the song that stands out, where the user presses Skip, because Spotify will rank those lower, and
    • lots of folks now consume music as background noise, so the intricacies of a guitar solo, which would’ve hit like a truck for active listeners, are often just drowned out by traffic noise or may just be too much to take in while you’re learning for school or whatever.

    Having said all that, there is the flipside that the top 10 pop songs are less relevant than ever. You’ve got practically an infinite supply of songs to choose from, so you kind of just have to find the good stuff.
    That is work, I admit, so I can understand a certain level of frustration, but yeah, it is also something to be excited about, that there is such a huge selection to choose from.

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      None of that is novel or unique to Spotify or streaming. The push for radio hit singles was killing the “listen-through album” well before the internet meant individual tracks could be easily purchased (or pirated).