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?
For youtube you should use Revanced and the subscriptions feed. No ads, no garbage recommendations but just a small amount of effort.
I think movies are worse now, I may be getting old but I the time between “Wow, that was a great movie” seems to be getting longer.
On the other hand, TV shows are getting better, when I watched Firefly recently (don’t kill me) it was good but not great while The Bear and Ted Lasso are just amazing.
Anime is also getting better, there are new animes that are great being released all the time. Chainsaw Man, Frieren, Solo Levelling, Delicious Dungeon and Dan Da Dan are all great picks that came out recently.
I feel like Steam is also really great these days, there’s a bit of a downturn in AAA game quality but the indie scene is going strong. Slay the Spire, Hades and Balatro all came out semi recently. You’re better served with getting some gaming recommendations since the catalog is so full of games that are worth playing you’ll have to quit your job to actually get through them. I really would like to dump another 100 hours into Factorio to get through the Space Age DLC.
All in all, yeah, things are getting enshittified but there’s still plenty of entertainment that’s good being released every day.