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.
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.
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.
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.
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.