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Most media is forgettable and always has been. If anything has changed it's that we're consuming more of it, and it takes more for any given thing to stand out
by vidarh 3y ago
Most media is forgettable and always has been. If anything has changed it's that we're consuming more of it, and it takes more for any given thing to stand out enough for it be something special, while more of what we consume isn't the peak of whats on offer.
There's also less shared context. E.g. I firmly believe that a lot of our memories of a lot of the media we've consumed in the past is down to conversations about it reinforcing it as much as the initial memory.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI remember every line from Lord of the Rings now because so many memes were made of it. But then you have e.g. Avatar where at best you remember "I see you" and... nothing else, besides high level things like blue aliens and jungles, because there's no memes. That was the weird thing about Avatar, one of the highest grossing films of all time, but nobody talks about it.