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That’s kind of the point though. You aren’t exposed to new things any more. When FM radio stations were a bigger part of the music poolrooms, for example, new a
by revscat 4y ago
That’s kind of the point though. You aren’t exposed to new things any more. When FM radio stations were a bigger part of the music poolrooms, for example, new artists would get
promoted by local stations, or new albums by established artists. I discovered the guitarist Eric Johnson because of Q102 in Dallas because of this, for example.
Now that discoverability vector is gone. Not that it was perfect in the first place: they were influenced by record company execs and internal politics, I’m sure. But it was something.
Another part of it seems to be that financial stresses are so high that people don’t have the freedom to pursue the new.
- tuatoru 4y agoWell you kind of are exposed to new things sometimes, but the algorithms wildly overreact. As I like to say, "accidentally play half of episode 1 of some Korean rom-com, and suddenly Netflix shows you nothing but Korean rom-coms."[1] (Substitute Turkish or Finnish or Nigerian for Korean, to taste. Likewise for rom-com: choose your genre.) Also, you can't set up filters. I'd like to tell netflix, "if you suggest something with Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey in it, I'll cancel my subscription immediately". But I can't. 1. Yes, I know. I need to work on making it more pithy.