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Is it really surprising that TV is turning to garbage? There's no great conspiracy to dumb it down, it's just a question of demographics. TV used to be the prim

Is it really surprising that TV is turning to garbage? There's no great conspiracy to dumb it down, it's just a question of demographics. TV used to be the primary source of home entertainment for every age group, now it's just people too technologically illiterate to work out how to sign up for streaming services. In my group of close 25 - 32 ish year old friends, encompassing maybe 10 households I don't know a single one who actually has their TV hooked up to regular TV, all of them consume content through a combination of streaming services and piracy. Expand your search past regular broadcast television and you'll find there's a thousand times more weird, avant garde stuff out there today if that's what you're into.

postalrat 4y ago
When you are old what will be the media you aren't watching but younger people are? Vr?
- sdwr 4y ago
  It's going to be some fucking hyper-fragmented AR thing, where content is gated behind messaging people you know. Like how Facebook games used to ask you to spam your friends for gems, except instead of gems it's going to be an algorithm doling out content, and your friends can influence what you see. It's also going to be semi-multiplayer like ghosts in Dark Souls, you'll be able to engage ephemerally with people watching the same stuff as you. Hyper-social without real interactions, constant choice but nothing ever changes, maximum stimulation without satisfaction. It's going to be impenetrable and exhausting to anyone over the age of 35.
  - p1necone 4y ago
    I think this is an overly cynical take. Long form tv show/movie length content is never going to be replaced by algorithm driven short form content, if it was then it would already be happening. This is the same as the game market. People constantly lament the state of the mobile game market as if it's replaced PC/console games of old, but in reality it's just a new but separate market. There's still just as many (actually many many more) traditional, non incrementally monetized games being made still.
    - nottorp 4y ago
      > Long form tv show/movie length content is never going to be replaced by algorithm driven short form content, if it was then it would already be happening. Let's put "algorithm driven" aside for a while. I was of the same opinion that long form isn't going to die but then Netflix came, and i ran into 5-10 minute shorts on youtube that can be better than most overlong streaming service "content". Today's long form is too -ing long.

postalrat 4y ago

When you are old what will be the media you aren't watching but younger people are? Vr?

sdwr 4y ago
It's going to be some fucking hyper-fragmented AR thing, where content is gated behind messaging people you know. Like how Facebook games used to ask you to spam your friends for gems, except instead of gems it's going to be an algorithm doling out content, and your friends can influence what you see. It's also going to be semi-multiplayer like ghosts in Dark Souls, you'll be able to engage ephemerally with people watching the same stuff as you. Hyper-social without real interactions, constant choice but nothing ever changes, maximum stimulation without satisfaction. It's going to be impenetrable and exhausting to anyone over the age of 35.
- p1necone 4y ago
  I think this is an overly cynical take. Long form tv show/movie length content is never going to be replaced by algorithm driven short form content, if it was then it would already be happening. This is the same as the game market. People constantly lament the state of the mobile game market as if it's replaced PC/console games of old, but in reality it's just a new but separate market. There's still just as many (actually many many more) traditional, non incrementally monetized games being made still.
  - nottorp 4y ago
    > Long form tv show/movie length content is never going to be replaced by algorithm driven short form content, if it was then it would already be happening. Let's put "algorithm driven" aside for a while. I was of the same opinion that long form isn't going to die but then Netflix came, and i ran into 5-10 minute shorts on youtube that can be better than most overlong streaming service "content". Today's long form is too -ing long.