Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe.
Everything just kinda… hit a wall in 2016.
Films, TV, general media kinda stagnated, and it hasn’t really gotten over the slump. I run a Jellyfin server full of content, and the entire family has free access to it. Nobody uses it these days, nobody even bothers paying for streaming. Most of their entertainment is just Facebook, podcasts and YouTube.
Unless your show is more entertaining than doom scrolling a content stream that constantly agrees and praises you, then I dunno, man.
Hm, what happened in 2016…
Edit: if it wasn’t clear, I was referring to the US presidential election
The heat death of traditional marketing teams using discussion rather than algorithms to prescribe entertainment to the masses.
The summer of 2016 was pretty wonderful. Specifically June-July 2016. Hundreds of millions of persons all across the world were cooperating. It was the one time where I looked forward to crowds and talking to countless strangers.