Ask Lemmy

Yes it has definitely gotten worse. I haven't seen anything good at the cinemas or on TV for a long time.

The last movie I really liked was Nightcrawler. The last TV show I got into was Better Call Saul.

Where are all the artists these days? They seem to have been replaced by people who only know how to churn out the same repetitive boring dribble?

I don't watch ads, and I have been watching all sorts of great TV and movies. You just know how to find it and where to get it.

Listen, leave my mundane activity sims the fuck alone

For tv shows and movies:

Older content is rapidly disappearing/getting less accessible. Especially non english content. Shout out to do your part in legally archiving digital media from public libraries.

At the same time new media is pushed build on Existing mega franchises, everything is the same format with the same formula with no higher goal then the profit-margin.

online: is a different story because google owns it. They decide how youtube presents content to users, what do’s and don’ts get punished or get you recommended more.

Again no goal higher then the profit margin,1 ad for a 30 minute video is not as efficient as 1 every so many shorts. And because shorts are more random and your just consuming the flos its harder to tell the ads apart.

Because shorts are optimised on phone, google also rules how 50% of people use their phone it pushes more people to this more exploitative and less ad blockade device.

Good content still exists, its just a lot harder to find because promoting it is less profitable.

Their is a word for this kind of things falling apart to chase profit. Its enshitification.

Yes, TV has gotten worse. When I was a kid, a 90 minute movie had one ad in the middle, if it was longer, there were usually two. Recently I saw TV after god knows how many years and there was an ad every 10 minutes.

And yes, the really short content sucks because it damages the attention span. But it's a trend, it's not like it started with this generation, our attention is attacked constantly and has been for a while.

I wouldn't hate on brain rot that much, sure, it's stupid, but hey - you had your own stupid thing when you were young, as did every other generation.

Steam generally shows you what they think will interest you, I don't see any gooner porn there, that one might be on you.

Yes, you're getting old, yelling at clouds. Not a bad thing as long you don't make others feel bad because of it.

theres a lot of hogs out there eager to gobble up the slop

It did get better for a while, but now it is worse.

The problem with short form, which is quite evident to those of us who grew up with regular form TV back in the day, is short form format mimics a TV advertisement of yore, most of the time (exceptions exist, we’re talking middle of the bell curve numbers here). The type of music played is exactly that bad as well.

As such, shorts usually hit the brain like an advertisement under the guise of not being one.

I’d be curious to know if shorts consumers are more likely to consume ads, now that they’ve been thoroughly trained to consume advertisement format vids/music.

I stick to ad-free platforms, either by paying it or using alternative ways, books, single player games, and Spotify without ads.

We are in a shitty point of society and all we can do is brace ourselves and do conscious choices that pull us out of this algorithm riddled internet.

It's tough though. Lots of times I wake up and the first thing I do is open media to see if there are any tragedies or worldwide events going on, and then when I notice it... oops! There goes 30 minutes away of your life doomscrolling on Reddit/media... I just shut it all down when I notice it and go back to my routine. Trying to make a habit of it, but it is hard

Yes

You being confused by 6 7 is literally the reason why it's popular. The younger generation is rebelling against the older generations by doing things differently. You are just getting old.

Everyone knows 67 = basketball star Lamelo Ball's height (6' 7"). It's a reference to a song that talks about that. It's now just a silly in-joke reaction to hearing/seeing the numbers 6 and 7, literally the exact same thing as millenials and 69.

Well not everyone knows that I guess - just everyone cool!

Also how weird is it that 2 of the biggest memes of the past decade - the dab and 67 -are both made famous by sports stars based in my hometown of Charlotte, NC (not exactly a cultural mecca)

Pop music sounds very bland today and most news articles are pure clickbait and riddled with spelling and grammar errors.

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.