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Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by SmokeyDope@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.

Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.

Weekend trips to Blockbusters to rent out a game and movie is gone.

When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called "brain break" and "brain rot".

I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.

Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says "It has no fixed meaning."

Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.

All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now. The last bastion of enjoyment zi have is older media and indie made stuff by a few select artist/small teams . Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mathematically, music is getting less complex:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/04/melodies-chart-topping-music-less-complex-study

If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere...

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, that's purely chart-topping music.

[–] michaelalf@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Still an interesting trend though, no? People, collectively, find this music more catchy or pleasing... Hence, this "simple" music is topping the charts. What it says about the human race? Well, I'm not a philosopher nor sociologist, but it can't be good.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

That's kinda the end result I would expect from music streaming being a thing. Folks with more specific tastes will gravitate to their weird little niche genres meanwhile folks who don't care will continue to listen to whatever popular trite gets pumped out.

Just looking at my quick picks that aren't artists we've got Witch by L-79, something in cyrillic that I can't copy paste or type (inri inri abracadabra), Vigspá by Danheim, several Hulkoff songs, and several Credence Clearwater Revival songs. Nothing about my fucking suggestions is normal and that's not even factoring in my digital library which is an ungodly mix of heavy metal, vocaloid, classic rock, synth, and whatever random songs I've ripped from games cause I liked them.