Does anyone else knowtice how almost every entertainment media company has basically not made anything entertaining in years and how the overall quality of books, movies, TV shows, music, YouTube videos and everything form of media has basically dropped in quality and all of these companies, industries, and franchises are just constantly going under, keep getting sold off or shut down, and how it feels like all the things we grew up loving are just coming to an end? Basically all tv and movie prudiction companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, and all of Hollywood haven't made anything worth watching in years, social media sites have become cesspools of pure hatred, toxicity, stupidity, and shear idiocy, most modern day music is unlistenable, nearly all YouTube videos are trash, the only good toys, models, and figures worth buying are the ones that cost a lot and are made by either third party companies or Japan, and almost nearly everything has gone to shit and almost everything isn't as fun and enjoyable as it use to be.
Otherwise, what do all of you think of modern day media? Feel free to share your honest thoughts and opinions.
Does anyone else knowtice how almost every entertainment media company has basically not made anything entertaining in years and how the overall quality of books, movies, TV shows, music, YouTube videos and everything form of media has basically dropped in quality and all of these companies, industries, and franchises are just constantly going under, keep getting sold off or shut down, and how it feels like all the things we grew up loving are just coming to an end? Basically all tv and movie prudiction companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, and all of Hollywood haven't made anything worth watching in years, social media sites have become cesspools of pure hatred, toxicity, stupidity, and shear idiocy, most modern day music is unlistenable, nearly all YouTube videos are trash, the only good toys, models, and figures worth buying are the ones that cost a lot and are made by either third party companies or Japan, and almost nearly everything has gone to shit and almost everything isn't as fun and enjoyable as it use to be.
Also most video games are half baked underdeveloped products with little to no content that they expect you to pay extra money for dlc and microtransations on top of the overlypriced $60 dollars that they slap on nearly every game.
I was thinking about the anime oshi no Kyo where in the first episode one of the idol singer’s fans is so upset that she had kids that he stabs her. Making a mistake as an artist can seriously damage the mental health of people. These people have no happiness in their lives. They have given up on the world ever getting better. and there only escape is good art. And they hate bad art so much that if theirs a lot of it out there they will get to the point where they believe life is not worth living anymore. That is the consequence of making bad art. You’ve convinced someone that life is not worth living.
I was thinking about the anime oshi no Kyo where in the first episode one of the idol singer’s fans is so upset that she had kids that he stabs her. Making a mistake as an artist can seriously damage the mental health of people. These people have no happiness in their lives. They have given up on the world ever getting better. and there only escape is good art. And they hate bad art so much that if theirs a lot of it out there they will get to the point where they believe life is not worth living anymore. That is the consequence of making bad art. You’ve convinced someone that life is not worth living.
I was thinking about the anime oshi no Kyo where in the first episode one of the idol singer’s fans is so upset that she had kids that he stabs her. Making a mistake as an artist can seriously damage the mental health of people. These people have no happiness in their lives. They have given up on the world ever getting better. and there only escape is good art. And they hate bad art so much that if theirs a lot of it out there they will get to the point where they believe life is not worth living anymore. That is the consequence of making bad art. You’ve convinced someone that life is not worth living.
I think this is more just over saturation. There is so much stuff that anything good gets quickly buried while horrible stuff that cause drama sticks around and dominates online discourse.
Severance (2022), amazing show, no one talks about it. Kiff (2023), Disney show which is pretty entertaining, again people don't talk about it. Robot Dreams, a movie that came out recently. Amazing but no one is talking about it.
Instead people would rather whine about Wish or whatever bad media there is. Don't people ever just get sick of it?
Also adding with the part about the toys...
I heard Littlest Pet Shop and Bratz are coming back which people are happy about. Tho RIP Rainbow High.
Yeah, you can easily find videos from like 9-12 years ago of ye old Youtube ranting about how "awful" media was in comparison to the 80s or 90s. The internet was high and dry with very young Gen X and Millennials whining about how much worse then "modern" entertainment was-movies, TV shows, music, etc. And yet these are media that are now considered nostalgic to Gen Z kids, who in turn rant in 2021-2024 about how much better THEIR entertainment was in like 2011, LOL. My parents complained about the shows I watched in the 90s. Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes complained about the shows Calvin liked to watch in the 80s.
Are there highs and lows to channels and networks and companies? Are there some bad trends going on now in entertainment? Absolutely, but doldrums are a thing in ANY medium. Anyone remember how much of a rut Disney was in the early to mid 2000s, for example? Heck, even Bob Iger attended a Hong Kong Disneyland parade then and noted how few newer "iconic" Disney characters they were with the exception of Pixar and that's when he knew something had to change (whether that change was better or worse is your opinion, but yeah).
Excuse me I'm a millennial and I don't bitch about modern shows like a boomer. I'm the one person that doesn't hate New Looney Tunes or Looney Tunes Cartoons, although LT is becoming dumb.
I think this is more just over saturation. There is so much stuff that anything good gets quickly buried while horrible stuff that cause drama sticks around and dominates online discourse.
Severance (2022), amazing show, no one talks about it. Kiff (2023), Disney show which is pretty entertaining, again people don't talk about it. Robot Dreams, a movie that came out recently. Amazing but no one is talking about it.
Instead people would rather whine about Wish or whatever bad media there is. Don't people ever just get sick of it?
Also adding with the part about the toys...
I heard Littlest Pet Shop and Bratz are coming back which people are happy about. Tho RIP Rainbow High.
Yeah, you can easily find videos from like 9-12 years ago of ye old Youtube ranting about how "awful" media was in comparison to the 80s or 90s. The internet was high and dry with very young Gen X and Millennials whining about how much worse then "modern" entertainment was-movies, TV shows, music, etc. And yet these are media that are now considered nostalgic to Gen Z kids, who in turn rant in 2021-2024 about how much better THEIR entertainment was in like 2011, LOL. My parents complained about the shows I watched in the 90s. Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes complained about the shows Calvin liked to watch in the 80s.
Are there highs and lows to channels and networks and companies? Are there some bad trends going on now in entertainment? Absolutely, but doldrums are a thing in ANY medium. Anyone remember how much of a rut Disney was in the early to mid 2000s, for example? Heck, even Bob Iger attended a Hong Kong Disneyland parade then and noted how few newer "iconic" Disney characters they were with the exception of Pixar and that's when he knew something had to change (whether that change was better or worse is your opinion, but yeah).
I actually have a fondness for Disney's 2000s period and would honestly much rather watching anything from there then the disappointment that was "Wish".
Yeah, you can easily find videos from like 9-12 years ago of ye old Youtube ranting about how "awful" media was in comparison to the 80s or 90s. The internet was high and dry with very young Gen X and Millennials whining about how much worse then "modern" entertainment was-movies, TV shows, music, etc. And yet these are media that are now considered nostalgic to Gen Z kids, who in turn rant in 2021-2024 about how much better THEIR entertainment was in like 2011, LOL. My parents complained about the shows I watched in the 90s. Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes complained about the shows Calvin liked to watch in the 80s.
Are there highs and lows to channels and networks and companies? Are there some bad trends going on now in entertainment? Absolutely, but doldrums are a thing in ANY medium. Anyone remember how much of a rut Disney was in the early to mid 2000s, for example? Heck, even Bob Iger attended a Hong Kong Disneyland parade then and noted how few newer "iconic" Disney characters they were with the exception of Pixar and that's when he knew something had to change (whether that change was better or worse is your opinion, but yeah).
I actually have a fondness for Disney's 2000s period and would honestly much rather watching anything from there then the disappointment that was "Wish".
Yeah, not to get too far off topic, but Disney sort of lost their mojo when the new millennium hit and they weren't quite sure where to go from their highly dependable "Renaissance era period." Just in general, their box office performance and overall pop culture footprint was super mixed going into the 00s and continuing throughout the 00s. On top of the wide pool of "cheapquels," look at some of their major theatrical outputs-Atlantis (underperformed), Fantasia 2000 (decently loved, but didn't do super well financially), Dinosaur (meh), Brother Bear (underperformed, left little impact), Return to Neverland (okay?), Treasure Planet (loved now but heavily underperformed), The Wild and Valiant(farmed out movies that were pretty bad IMO), Chicken Little (just did okay), Home on the Range (neither did okay nor is fondly remembered). Lilo and Stitch was a super bright spot. Bolt did okay and has its fans, as does Meet the Robinsons. But did any of these movies get the absolutely glowing accolades and have the sheer cultural impact that a Renaissance era movie did? Outside of Lilo and Stitch, not really? People also weren't too fond of Disney pushing out multiple cheap, plastic-y sitcoms once the second half of the 00s happened (though that gets into the 2010s moreso). You still got animation on the channel, just not like it was in the 80s or 90s, and not everyone liked that.
Disney was in a fairly tight spot, no wonder they snatched up Pixar quickly.
And indeed, I will take any of these weird experiments over Wish too LOL. All this to say the "doldrums" happen to basically every major company, even globally and historically famous ones
I actually have a fondness for Disney's 2000s period and would honestly much rather watching anything from there then the disappointment that was "Wish".
Yeah, not to get too far off topic, but Disney sort of lost their mojo when the new millennium hit and they weren't quite sure where to go from their highly dependable "Renaissance era period." Just in general, their box office performance and overall pop culture footprint was super mixed going into the 00s and continuing throughout the 00s. On top of the wide pool of "cheapquels," look at some of their major theatrical outputs-Atlantis (underperformed), Fantasia 2000 (decently loved, but didn't do super well financially), Dinosaur (meh), Brother Bear (underperformed, left little impact), Return to Neverland (okay?), Treasure Planet (loved now but heavily underperformed), The Wild and Valiant(farmed out movies that were pretty bad IMO), Chicken Little (just did okay), Home on the Range (neither did okay nor is fondly remembered). Lilo and Stitch was a super bright spot. Bolt did okay and has its fans, as does Meet the Robinsons. But did any of these movies get the absolutely glowing accolades and have the sheer cultural impact that a Renaissance era movie did? Outside of Lilo and Stitch, not really? People also weren't too fond of Disney pushing out multiple cheap, plastic-y sitcoms once the second half of the 00s happened (though that gets into the 2010s moreso). You still got animation on the channel, just not like it was in the 80s or 90s, and not everyone liked that.
Disney was in a fairly tight spot, no wonder they snatched up Pixar quickly.
And indeed, I will take any of these weird experiments over Wish too LOL. All this to say the "doldrums" happen to basically every major company, even globally and historically famous ones
To be fair some of that was due to internal sabotage, one of the people that worked on Treasure Planet basically admitted that Disney purposefully sent that movie out to die as they were looking to move away from 2-D animation so they deliberately half-assed the marketing campaign and put it up against the 2nd Harry Potter movie, there's no way they didn't anticipate it getting it's ass kicked(and i'm convinced they did the same thing to that 2011 Winnie the Pooh film by putting it up against Deathly Hallows)that way they had a convenient excuse to move away to 3-D animation entirely(and part of me is wondering if they deliberately put Princess and the Frog up against Avatar for that some reason).
I'd rather watch every single one of the cheapquels then sit through one of those live-action remakes LOL
i actually do kinda fondly remember Home on the Range(even if it is kinda awkward to watch now with two of it's voice-actors now being full blown wackjobs).
I thought Wild and Valiant were pretty interesting and to be fair many people didn't even realize they were technically Disney movies(I didn't know that myself until long after they came out)at the time.
You'd be surprised at how many people fondly remember those Disney Channel sitcoms, they got pretty good ratings so somebody liked em, I certainly have fond memories of Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, Phil of the Future, That's So Raven, Suite Life, Hannah Montana, Sonny with a Chance, Wizards of Waverly Place etc.
Honestly, the only piece of media I truly think has gone to utter shit these past few years is the music medium.
Everything is the same, the same exact instruments, progressions, the same auto tune style, everything is nearly identical to each other.
I have yet to find a genuinely good song from this decade so far that isn’t either from a movie or from a hyperobscure artist, it’s a shame.
Even in the movies & video games, music has gone downhill, especially since in AAA games you're likely to hear licensed songs rather than original music anymore. It's been like that since the 2000s, with EA Sports & Tony Hawk games(the latter of which I think they made a lot of sense in compared to, say, Madden NFL 2003) doing it to the point that it becomes tiring.
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Honestly, the only piece of media I truly think has gone to utter shit these past few years is the music medium.
Everything is the same, the same exact instruments, progressions, the same auto tune style, everything is nearly identical to each other.
I have yet to find a genuinely good song from this decade so far that isn’t either from a movie or from a hyperobscure artist, it’s a shame.
Even in the movies & video games, music has gone downhill, especially since in AAA games you're likely to hear licensed songs rather than original music anymore. It's been like that since the 2000s, with EA Sports & Tony Hawk games(the latter of which I think they made a lot of sense in compared to, say, Madden NFL 2003) doing it to the point that it becomes tiring.
I enjoy licensed music in games(love the Saints Row and GTA soundtracks) but I am tired of games having mostly orchestral music, so much of that kind of stuff just goes in one ear and out the other, like yeah it's great that you got Hans Zimmer to do the score for Modern Warfare 2 but that does not matter much when I can barely remember any of the music after i've finished the game.
