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?
It’s absolutely getting worse. Across every spectrum.
Our ancestors used to say the same shit about berries and game. The environment has just shifted. Our ancestors had to get better at hunting and/or gathering or they died out. Modern humans are just in a media environment shift and need to adapt. The days of blockbuster having curated media ready to go on the shelf is over. Good media has been almost hunted to extinction the temperatures are rising and the coasts where new ideas went to grow are flooding.
Don’t worry friend there is a light at the end of this dark tunnel. Just like slavery in this country created the fertile suffering that helped bring forth great music so too shall the terrible age of Trump create a people so damaged and broken they will surely go on to make great works of art.