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?

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Artists are being treated worse, that is for sure, why do the details of if artists can still manage to create equally good art as we begin to treat them worse and worse matter? I don’t know if I want artists to be capable of that past a certain point as it just ends up worse for artists anyways when they do this and normalize even worse treatment of their profession.

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Source? I remember artists being treated very shittily in the past too, I’m not convinced things have improved / declined significantly for them.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 hours ago

        The decline in social safety nets, the increase in housing and cost of living and the rise of music distribution services that are openly hostile towards musicians earning an actual income off their music such as Spotify make my point indisputable (even worse Bandcamp being bought by Epic ensures enshittification of the last large platform left not hostile to musicians). Things are materially worse for the quality of life for people on the periphery of society.

        “You can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough. The artists today that are making it realize that it’s about creating a continuous engagement with their fans. It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the album, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans."

        -Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

        • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          2 hours ago

          Social safety nets are very much a regional issue, depending on the country they’ve actually improved.

          Housing & cost of living is something that affects everybody equally, so it’s somewhat weird to bring it up when discussing a particular profession. We’re ALL having trouble buying a house.

          Rise of hostile music distribution services… Major studios and music distributors have ALWAYS taken advantage of the power imbalance to shaft musicians. I don’t know if it’s just before your time, but the idea that they were being paid better in the past is laughable. Musicians having to tour and sell merch so they can pay their bills has been a thing since forever.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Housing & cost of living is something that affects everybody equally, so it’s somewhat weird to bring it up when discussing a particular profession. We’re ALL having trouble buying a house.

            No, it really isn’t, artists almost as a rule tend to occupy the peripheries of societies and not to make a ton of money or experience especially stable lives. This means if the average person is suffering artists are definitely suffering…