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’m “only” 40 and I’m judging the shit out of you for having favorite YouTubers. YouTube is for how-to’s and music videos only. Following someones vlog just seems really pathetic to me.
But advertising has always been a thing. Even in the pre TV days. Thinking of ralphie from a Christmas story here, with his decoder ring telling him to drink Ovaltine.
Even if you’re ancap, consuming ancap material like fallout, and the outer worlds is still capitalism and marketing. Hell, YouTube and tiktok etc are essentially JUST marketing unless you’re searching for something specific.
Seems like your idea of what Youtube is is stuck in 2005.
I’m almost 50 and I have favorite YouTubers. I watch the Australian guy cleaning drains with a high-pressure water jet, and another guy in Virginia buying scrap earth moving equipment and bringing it back to life. I also watch a couple of the 30-40 somethings that play games so i don’t have to buy them.
I am seriously judging you for thinking YouTube is for how-to’s and music videos. In fact, Youtbe is now infamously known for bad how-to videos with all the damn ads.
Like that is what Youtube was 15 years ago. That is a completely dishonest description of what it is now. Also vlogs are not that prevalent really.
You just don’t know what your talking about. Youtube is more than what it was 10 years ago. Worse… maybe, probably. But you have no idea what Youtube is apparently.
I am seriously judging you for judging him for judging that other guy.
If you were me then I’d be you and I’d use your body to get to the top! You can’t stop me no matter who you are!
Shikaka!