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A Boring Dystopia
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Everything just kinda... hit a wall in 2016.
Films, TV, general media kinda stagnated, and it hasn't really gotten over the slump. I run a Jellyfin server full of content, and the entire family has free access to it. Nobody uses it these days, nobody even bothers paying for streaming. Most of their entertainment is just Facebook, podcasts and YouTube.
Unless your show is more entertaining than doom scrolling a content stream that constantly agrees and praises you, then I dunno, man.
Plenty of good shows.
Reddit.com/r/television.
Just look at most recent recommendations thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1himwu7/what_are_you_watching_and_what_do_you_recommend/?sort=confidence
I think it's just the superheroes genre that got stale
Hm, what happened in 2016.....
Edit: if it wasn't clear, I was referring to the US presidential election
The heat death of traditional marketing teams using discussion rather than algorithms to prescribe entertainment to the masses.
The summer of 2016 was pretty wonderful. Specifically June-July 2016. Hundreds of millions of persons all across the world were cooperating. It was the one time where I looked forward to crowds and talking to countless strangers.