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.
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.