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.
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.
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
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.
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.