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Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies
- rogerkirkness 3mo agoGen Z seems to have some kind of vaccine against all the Gen X problems.
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- MisterBastahrd 3mo agoGen Z is about as good at discovering new things as Columbus was.
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- cgyvbunji 3mo agoHave you guys not figured out yet that the media justs runs random headlines with whatever they got paid to plug with a generation tacked onto it to sell more stuff by creating FOMO "<Generation we want to sell more stuff to> has rediscovered the joy of <thing we want to sell more of>" It's possible many such articles are actually truly random and they just add generations to them because it increases engagement, which would be somehow even more sad. Either way they are definitely not legitimate and you can safely ignore almost any headline with a generation in it.
- glimshe 3mo agoI'd go one step further and say that you can safely ignore most The Economist articles.
- paulpauper 3mo agoThe Economist has gone much more mainstream. It used to be more technical
- paulpauper 3mo agoIt's as if The Atlantic, NYTs, Washington Post, FT, Economist etc. all regurgitate the same headlines/themes based on what is trendy e.g. "is Ai a bubble?" The media acts as a single entity that is a mirror of an intelligentsia elite. Ordinary people do not care that much about movie attendance, the demise of movie rental stores, or if AI is a bubble.
- andsoitis 3mo ago> The Atlantic, NYTs, Washington Post, FT, Economist etc. all regurgitate the same headlines/themes based on what is trendy what do you expect news outlets to do? make up stories? report on something uninteresting? should they report on something they think will never be "trendy"? there's an infinite number of stories they COULD report on, so they need a prioritization scheme to choose what. I would expect sizable overlap across the media outlets you list, but much less (though non-zero) with a news outlet like The Hollywood Reporter. One thing I DO wish for is that they are better at reporting "foreign" news. Now that would be cool.
- sublinear 3mo ago??? Ads have always been like this. If you're at the point where you're getting upset about ads pretending to be something else, you're not actually upset at the ad.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3mo agoThis comment doesn't make sense. > If you're at the point where you're getting upset about ads pretending to be something else Please. Nobody is ever pushed to "the point where they get upset about [willful deceptions]" because that is the regular human baseline. > you're not actually upset at the ad I guess? They're clearly upset at the willful deception, though. > Ads have always been like this. If ads are expected to be deceptive, then of course they are upset at the ad. At that point, its mere existence is an insult.
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- dlcarrier 3mo agoAll generations are rediscovering the joy of going to the movies, now that there's a handful of movies worth going to the theater for. This hasn't happened since Barbenheimer.
- paulpauper 3mo agoLike sports, the moviegoing experience will always occupy a place in society. It's fun, social, and hard to replicate, such as the screen size and sound.
- rasheed106 3mo agoThis brings me joy. Nothing beats a good matinee movie, popcorn, and hotdog on the weekend.