Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.
Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.
I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.
Weekend trips to Blockbusters to rent out a game and movie is gone.
When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called “brain break” and “brain rot”.
I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.
Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”
Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.
All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now. The last bastion of enjoyment zi have is older media and indie made stuff by a few select artist/small teams . Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?
This sounds like a perfect opportunity to start reading books.
Society changes Book is book
Media changes Book is book
Trends change Book is book
Government changes Book is book
Games get outdated Book is book
Servers get shutdown Book is book
Book will always be there in its original format, no ads, no change, no tracking, no brainrot, no trends, no algorithmic content creation.
Book is book
You are deluding yourself if you think that books are immune to AI slop.
Enshittification is coming for all things. It’ll take a lot of careful human curation to keep finding the value among the deluge of crap.
The solution is to have a backlog and read books years after publication. Thankfully plenty of good stuff has been written over hundreds of years, no need to jump on fresh books.
To be fair, there has always been crap. Sure, llms automate the process of slop creation, but you always had to rely on curation and often pure luck to find decent books.
Books are getting worse too. Publishers seem to be perfectly happy to publish books with no solid plot that have no proper ending because the writer couldn’t think of one.
Check and see if those books are published versions of webnovels. I find most (though not all) webnovel series have this problem, and I’ve seen a rise in web novels being converted to full books and audiobooks. I’m willing to bet it’s less prevalent outside of webnovels due to normally needing to submit a manuscript to an editor first.
I’ve already read ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ and ‘American Psycho’, thanks.
Sounds like me but unpublished lol
The reason why I’m not writing a book is because I have a vague idea but I won’t be able to tie it all up fairly neatly and make sure everything makes at least some sense (ergo: why did x do y?). But apparently that’s not necessary anymore.
Book is book.
Fool of a Book.
There still are a lot of shitty books out there, and literature is not immune to trends, whether they are mainstream or limited to specific subcultures. And as long as there is at least one existing copy avaible for streaming/download, any piece of media lasts forever.
The world remains largely unchanged according to ducks
Hmmmm
I volunteer in wildlife rescue. I can tell you ducks have had a rough 2 years.
Why?
Where I’m located the main culprits are bird flu, virulent newcastle disease, fowlpox and decreasing water quality due to things like algae and botulism.
Until someone figures out how to generate books written by AI that will ultilize algorithms, curate them to include ads and trends, and that will have unavoidable AI brainrot. For now books are safe.
Think about it. Today we say that AI will never write a good book. But 3 years ago we were saying that AI will never generate a realistic footage after that “Will Smith eating pasta” video. Today AI-video is getting harder to distinguish. Same with music. Not a lot of time has passed.
That needs to be on a t-shirt or something!