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?

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    6 days ago

    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.