I realise I am going to come across exactly like this stock market trader the BBC was interviewing ages ago but I totally get the mentality. I've had a long plan of setting up my own game dev/media business and I am absolutely thrilled at all the bad shit that is happening to these awful companies. I know that traditionally it's bad karma to celebrate people losing their jobs and everything but in these particular instances and given they really are the absolute worse sorts of people getting the axe I think I can get away with it.
Hollywood, going down? That's fucking fantastic, can't stand the paedophile people traffickers. On top of that back in the day it would have been unthinkable for an outsider to come up with any kind of movies or short films to compete but now they're shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity and the AI dispute with the writers and actors might be the thing that finally kills them or at least severely weakens their hold over media.
Games companies dying? Great, fuck them, they hate their own playerbase anyway and openly show they do. Not only that, like Hollywood they consistently produce shit and haven't made a single improvement in their workflows with the overall quality going to hell.
Journalists getting replaced by AI? That's even better, all of the stuff they spew out is going to be unwatchable and the AI could well be exploited at some point that even with left wingers the news is going to be discredited. Adding to that journalists simply won't have the same power as they once did so they won't be able to form convincing twitter mobs against specific people who stand up to them or just get in their crosshairs.
Everyone who cares about the state of journalism, films, games should be excited about what's going to happen and there's a lot of money to be made from these stupid fucks. Indie creators will now be able to get their foot in the door with films as Hollywood's reach diminishes. Indie game devs can compete with the big corporations even if they're shamelessly cloning other titles as long as it doesn't suck which I find hilarious. Citizen journalists as well are probably going to get far more attention online as the normies get fed up with the AI bots everywhere or react with horror as some 4chan autist manages to get the AI to spam gas the jews live on air to be edgy.
I actually think the lockdowns in 2020 hastened the fall of western media. Because people were locked inside with nothing to do, they tried the standard media and realised how shit it is and couldn't relate to celebrities in their mansions as they were trapped in their small homes.
By comparison, there's been a huge rise in podcasts since they've been able to relate more to people by just shooting the shit. Vtubers rose too along with anime and manga for the fantasy escapism angle.
It was always going to fail on the path it's been on but 2020 just sped up the process.
The Presidential campaign and then administration of Donald Trump was the singular event that caused media credibility to virtually suck start a shotgun.
So many people have terminal cases of TDS, and everyone can see it now.
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect was coined in the 1990s, but it had been an obscure thing for so long, only known by real news junkies, and almost exclusively by right wing ones.
It’s been a while since I’d last heard about the “Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.”
Here’s some information about it for those unfamiliar:
The term came from Michael Crichton’s speech “Why Speculate?” regarding misinformative, opinionated speculation in news media, delivered in 2002. This is the passage that originated the term:
That's fascinating, didn't know about this, the modern term for it is memory holing, that's what I learned online.
Pretty much just without lockdowns, I think they might've lasted till early 2030
Because people were stuck inside so were limited in entertainment options, people quickly realised how shit and TDS infected they were. A lot of the gains we are getting is because the lockdowns became a catalyst event that shortened the normie patience.
They still weren't worth the death toll though.
That's a fantastic take on VTubers and may well be the piece of it I didn't understand.
People want escapism -- but celebrities revealed themselves to be vapid and out of touch to the normies. Something we have all known was suddenly laid bare for all to see. So, fake celebrities were the next best thing. A pure fantasy to get that same escapism.
I still think the whole thing is/was weird and cringey -- especially the kind of stuff you saw on /r/all for a long time in 21 and 22. But at least this helps me understand some theory as to why it came about.
Thanks!
I hope you have gotten off of reddit. When you help reduce their real human traffic you get em where it hurts, because the expense associated with fake traffic and narrative curation hinge on the substance of real traffic that you provide by being tolerant of them and interested in x sub
Oh yeah. Barely check it for baseball news these days, but never even go on /r/all anymore.
When they killed their API they lost me as a user. I would never use their cancerous app or give them a dollop of revenue.
Western celebrities aren't a form of escapism any more because they're constantly on social media breaking the illusion. They're no longer just their characters. They're real people with bad opinions and horrible takes just like the rest of us, so the illusion has been permanently dispelled.
You don't have to worry too much about an anime or video game character getting drunk and calling all their fans Nazis on Twitter because anime characters aren't real. This keeps the fantasy real. Even when writers decide that your beloved childhood character is suddenly a pedophile, you can simply dismiss it as bad writing and refuse to accept it as canon. You can't do that with an actor who embodies a role in every way.
I think another issue is that so many celebrities are increasingly so fake in everything they do. Limited life experience, limited ambition and drive, and still being paid the big bucks in spite of being soulless husks compared to some of their predecessors.
And top of that they've become the most outspoken and whiny bitches, despite being well off financially and career-wise. It's of little surprise that "influencers" and vtubers seem to command just about as much attention and respect now, comparatively.
If it's any consolation I find Vtubers too cringey to watch because it's definitely a niche thing but I don't necessarily blame them, if it works for people I won't knock that aspect. At least that's somewhat wholesome compared to the rampant Thot and Hollywood worship.
Yes. I consider that to be one of the worst effects of the lockdowns. It's actually worse than the millions dead. Holy fucking shit, every random knob goblin has a le podcast now. Total podcaster death.
For every good one, you got 20 copycats that are really shit at it
That'll never change unless EVERY person is capable of introspection which will happen at the heat death of the universe..
My favorite part was when, at work, our internal software tooling team started doing podcasts instead of release notes. So instead of sending us a short list of changes in a new release that I could skim in two minutes, they shat out a 60-90 minute audio file where they jacked each other off about how they worked super hard. I would have murdered them but they were all in Australia. They all got shitcanned since, and I sincerely hope they're now sucking dick in a truck parking lot for a bowl of soup.
Man, I thought the mandatory Monday meetings that could have been an email were bad.
That sounds like the most dull thing in the world, and worst part is unlike YouTube you can't skip to the parts you want..
It's the same with streamers, vtuber, YouTubers etc for every successful one there are thousands of failures. The difference with podcasts is they see these people shooting the shit successfully and think why can't they do it.
Not realising the talent it takes to storycraft, engage with your fellow presenters and/or guests and the charisma it takes to draw someone you have never met in.
I think the long form, highly edited and greatly researched videos you find on youtube or odyssey are what is killing western media also. Why watch a movie about how bad white people are when you can learn about this very niche but interesting ARG someone made, have people lead you through it. Or why even bother with documentaries? Youtube's got thousands to any kinda topic you want and often times more accurate or interesting.
I think some parallels can be drawn to how awful some media in the 70's was for quite a while. And then the golden age of the 80's and 90's were born out of that boring hellscape (along with many technical advancements).
Not that everything in the 70's sucked mind you, but a lot of TV shows and movies, especially from the earlier part of the decade, were just bloody terrible. A lot of awful trends that had low entertainment value, like blaxploitation, hippie centered flicks, some of the grungy urbanite flicks, and a wide range of preachy and "artsy" lefty films that parallels today's so-called "storytellers".
There were exceptions of course, especially in film. And I think the music scene was probably one of the positive highlights of that era (which continued into the 80's, only to be slowly drowned into irrelevancy by the 90's and early 2000's).