I am still obviously the guy in my profile picture, but I'm going to go out of character for a few paragraphs, mkay?
Anyway, I feel like it sucks dick to be a young person in today's era because of just how sterilized, dull, and boring everything is in regards to media and the social attitude. You're fucked in every which way round, but it's not like how it was before; it's on a completely different level now, and it's only going continually get worse.
TV just doesn't exist anymore; the last big show that resonated with the popular culture was Stranger Things, and that was just nostalgia bait that riffed off the '80s and a half, while a lot of newer shows are just continuations of shows that went into syndication over twenty years ago.
Like The Conners, Fuller House, and last I heard, there's talks of making a Malcolm in the Middle sequel show. Young Sheldon is a spinoff, but even that show has a fucking spinoff now called "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" and somehow that's related to The fucking Big Bang Theory.
This same exact thing happened to That '70s Show, where they made a sequel series called That '80s Show, and then within the last three years they made That '90s Show, but because that was poorly received, we'll likely ""unfortunately"" never get the highly-anticipated That '00s Show. Awh shucks!
If you don't want to count Stranger Things as the "last big show" then I suppose that "award" would go to Wednesday, which would fall into the latter category.
Every film is a sequel, a sequel to a sequel, a reboot, a sequel to a reboot, a film based off a franchise that's been in the mainstream for the past twenty to thirty years, a sequel to a film that was based off a franchise that's been in the mainstream for the past thirty years, a spinoff, etc.
You see this with the Sonic films, the Mario film and its future sequel, Barbie from 2024; there was a sequel to the Lion King reboot called "Mufasa"; there was a sequel to Beetlejuice nearly forty years after the original film came out; now there's going to be another Bridget Jones film this year.
The music industry just doesn't exist anymore; they shill a few newly planted pop stars every couple of years before they replace those pop stars with another fresh set of newly planted pop stars. The biggest album I've seen this decade was "Brat" by a whore called Charli XCX.
One individual made a great point that I had also been thinking about, but they put it in a much better way than I could've; they essentially said that there was a time when you had "Pop,""Alt," and "Underground" music; alternative acted as a mediator between pop and underground music, but because there are no big alternative scenes anymore, pop music is just cannibalizing itself as it has no new ideas or concepts to play with anymore.
This sucks big time because music was the biggest expression of and for youth culture; the two big genres of this decade are just popularizations of genres from the previous decade, Hyperpop and Phonk... and that's it, that's all you're getting, that's how you VILL express yourself.
Other artistic ventures like animation is dead in the water, deader than it was in the 1980s; for every project that gets greenlit, there are a several dozen more that didn't make the cut because the executives weren't quite sure if it would flop or make big bucks, and that's if the animation department doesn't suffer from a shit ton of layoffs or gets cut out entirely. This happened to MTV back in the 2000s and happened to Netflix not too long ago.
Everybody is just too preoccupied with social media (ChinkTok and Da 'Cord) that legacy media formats are dying, even if certain media still permeates throughout people's day-to-day lives without them even realizing it, so the companies are just trying to bleed old IPs dry to make as much bank on the new "adaptations" until they can't anymore. This coincides with the decline in theaters, both because it's expensive/high costs = low reward, but also because people will just wait until they can stream it from the comforts of their own home.
Also, if you interact with sites like Youtube as a form of TV, it's going to be the same shit you otherwise would've been getting on cable; instead of Reality shows produced by TLC, you're instead getting slop produced by a fag who's discussing "E-celeb" and "Youtuber" drama of which he generates revenue off of in order to pay his bills.
Instead of watching Fanboy and Chum Chum or Sanjay and Craig, kids are now watching equally retarded shit like Lankybox or Mr. Beast.
As a result, people's perceptions of reality are influenced by these retards to fit the modern agenda being pushed by the likes of Larry Fink and BlackRock or Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, which could easily be eliminated if people put their differences aside and just discussed issues with one another one-on-one instead of being told to think a certain way by Youtube's shitty algorithm, 4cuck or Blusky, or those fucks, and whatever the fuck else.
Nobody wants to actually rebel or revolt against the status quo, they just want to be a social justice warrior and a slacktivist or a contrarian, with all that amounting to performative postings on fucking social media, like anybody actually cares what they say or post to social media. Instead of another "Occupy Wall Street" movement how about we spam "#ProtectTransKids" and "#SlavaUkraini" (even though they don't even know what the fuck that means) for attention and validation on the internet, so we can show how good of a person xhe is, and how xhe is on the right side of history.
It feels like we were thrown into a time period where everything was said and done, like we're at the end of a book that should be concluding or that blank pages manifest themselves into existence faster than the writer can continue writing the story, so he continously repeats himself like a broken record so he can catch up to the unwritten pages.
And whether you like it or not, Artifical Intelligence is going to be the nail in the coffin for both legacy media and social media.
TL;DR: Popular culture is cannibalizing itself as it has no outside influence to take from, only itself to derive from. Alternative culture is dead and methods of expressing oneself are dead. Everything is fake, everything is gay, everything is dull, everything is boring, everything is performative for attention and to look like you're actually doing something when you're not on social media, everything is reduced to slang terms, and everything is a label or has a label.
I'm sick of everything the modern world has to offer, or rather, the lack of offerings.
