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It is just cable, but online. Interdimensional cable, at this point. 'member when people used to obsess over what to watch on Netflix? And the brief "golden ag

It is just cable, but online. Interdimensional cable, at this point. 'member when people used to obsess over what to watch on Netflix? And the brief "golden age of TV" that gave us Breaking Bad? I stopped caring for such conversations in a pub in Barcelona where people were gathering each weekend to watch the last season of Game of Thrones (first week was packed, slowly decreased to 3 people by the finale, never to be spoken off again after almost a decade as watercooler fodder). There really is nothing to watch on Netflix. There is nothing "mainstream-y" to watch on YouTube. There's no real need to keep up because the shared experience has fragmented and gone. MrBeast supposedly has hundreds of millions of viewers but I've never met one. It just doesn't come up in the real world. Who cares. And soon all will be generated images by AI. Like an impossibly advanced version of the arch toys they put over cribs. You don't have to jack into any of these things, you never did.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>There's no real need to keep up because the shared experience has fragmented and gone. MrBeast supposedly has hundreds of millions of viewers but I've never met one. It just doesn't come up in the real world. Article briefly touches on that and it can honestly be its own topic: >It’s unlikely we’ll see MrBeast dethroned anytime soon, and even less likely that the incoming class of creators will reach his same viewership. Monoculture of that sort is a vanishing rarity, nor a marker of quality An inevitable part of unshackling from cable television, but an unforunate one from the mindset of a collective social mindscape. You make a spongebob or Friends or Family GUy meme and you'll probably resonate with an entire generation. Not so much with, say, Severance or The Owl House or Invincible. >Who cares. well, a lot of people. Someone has to care to make it, air it, and then someone has to care to consume it. We don't have monocultures anymore but we can find intimate gatherings online that will do the equivalent. But yeah, if it's not professional sports, there's no longer a "icebreaker" media that will always be safe. Game of Thrones may have very well been the last (and waning) cry for such a show. millenials can still fall back to 90's/2000's media that had that impact, but gen alpha may or may not have such experiences. >And soon all will be generated images by AI ehh, I'd give that 20 years.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>There's no real need to keep up because the shared experience has fragmented and gone. MrBeast supposedly has hundreds of millions of viewers but I've never met one. It just doesn't come up in the real world. Article briefly touches on that and it can honestly be its own topic: >It’s unlikely we’ll see MrBeast dethroned anytime soon, and even less likely that the incoming class of creators will reach his same viewership. Monoculture of that sort is a vanishing rarity, nor a marker of quality An inevitable part of unshackling from cable television, but an unforunate one from the mindset of a collective social mindscape. You make a spongebob or Friends or Family GUy meme and you'll probably resonate with an entire generation. Not so much with, say, Severance or The Owl House or Invincible. >Who cares. well, a lot of people. Someone has to care to make it, air it, and then someone has to care to consume it. We don't have monocultures anymore but we can find intimate gatherings online that will do the equivalent. But yeah, if it's not professional sports, there's no longer a "icebreaker" media that will always be safe. Game of Thrones may have very well been the last (and waning) cry for such a show. millenials can still fall back to 90's/2000's media that had that impact, but gen alpha may or may not have such experiences. >And soon all will be generated images by AI ehh, I'd give that 20 years.