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?
I miss the days where we had shows without continuity. Just have each episode be a story of its own and be done. Nowadays it’s all just cliffhangers and intense story arcs to keep people on the TV. Just make a show for the sake of making a show and not for money.
Not even serialized shows had no continuity.
They did, but you’d only notice it if you watch them in order.
I want both.
Depending on mood, I may want a show that is entirely linear.
Other times, a one off.
Shows like that exist. Elsbeth is the first one that immediately came to mind.