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?
Radio and TV always sucked. That’s not a new thing. The only time I see ads is during sports.
You have less free time as you age. Happens to us all.
This is where social media shines. Go to any forum that’s focused on one of your favorite entertainments and ask the users what their top 10 things of late are. Check out the most mentioned. Fuck it’s December. There’s likely year-end lists all over the place.
You already have a shared passion with those folks so it’s likely you’ll have similar tastes.
Try listening to one of the records they recommend on your commute instead of the podcast that agrees with you.
Sure that show seems stupid but it’s 22 minutes and I can put it on while I make dinner. …and since when do I hate stupid?
When you were younger you prided yourself in ignoring the spoon-fed bullshit you referenced. It takes a little bit more effort at our age. You obviously care about it.
Cheers.
The trouble I’ve found with most communities is they are waaaaay more into anything than I am. People get stupid over unimportant details and become annoying pedants that are difficult to talk to because they are more concerned with correcting you than just embracing a shared enjoyment of something.
Still a great idea for some people and media though.