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?

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now.

    Eeeeeh. First of all, all the stuff you liked is still there.

    But also good stuff is rare. You really need to know where to look and which tips to follow. For example, if you disregard anime as a whole, you’ve probably missed absolute 10/10 media experiences you can’t find anywhere else. Sometimes it’s about leaving your comfort zone and trying something new.

    But then also, about the only really good star wars content we got in the last… 30 years is Ep. 3, the clone wars animated series (later seasons) and Andor. And they made SO MUCH.

    Also, maybe you should make your own. If you like the old stuff so much, try to make it yourself and give it a spin. get close to it, recapture, reinterpret, re-imagine. Maybe you’ll do that for 15 years, go back to your inspiration and find that your “imitation” has surpassed it.

    Necessity is the mother of invention. If you’re bored make your own.

    You have all the blueprints for the stuff you like. What else are you going to do? You can watch reruns, of course… not sure if it will be equally satisfying though.