Do you know where your entertainment comes from?

In the past, you may have asked yourself a similar question about where your food comes from. Everybody wants food that comes from a nice family farm, and nobody wants food from a factory farm or a lab. However, few people consider the source of the entertainment they consume. Often, the source of our entertainment is all-too-similar to that sterile lab or that mechanistic factory farm.

How much music do you listen to that's sung by million-dollar "artists" and released by billion-dollar record labels; and how much is written and performed by local musicians? How many movies do you watch that cost hundreds of millions to produce and were written by a committee; and how many were made by small indie companies? How much modern art is only known because of "woke" newspapers; and how much becomes famous on its own merits?

Believe it or not, regular people created our own art and entertainment for thousands of years. It's a recent development that we all started tuning in to junk made by billionaires with political agendas. Creating our own art is still very possible. Millions of people do it without even realizing it. The art that's created just feels better than that made by agenda-driven committees, and sometimes it can become very popular despite being ignored by the media. Below are listed several dozen ways you can build your own grassroots culture, either by yourself or with friends. What makes all of these special is that every single one of them can be created with no more than a handful of people. Many can be made on your own, and then shared on the internet. This is the way to bring culture back from the elites who think they own it, to the regular people willing to create art and entertainment worth viewing.

• Videos

  • Short dramatic skits
  • Short humorous skits
  • Independent films
  • Intellectual commentary on current events or culture
  • Humorous commentary on current events or culture
  • Educational videos about history, science, or any other topic
  • Stop-motion animation
  • 2d animation
  • 3d animation
  • Editing existing content (usually for humor)

• Music

  • Electronic music (only requires a computer to create)
  • Music involving a single instrument (can be recorded and shared, or played live)
  • Band with multiple performers

• Static art

  • Traditional drawing
  • Traditional painting
  • Sculpting or carving
  • Computer-assisted visual arts
  • Funny GIFs
  • Memes

• Games

  • Party games, e.g. charades
  • Board games
  • Card games
  • Tabletop RPGs
  • Text-based video games
  • Indie video games
  • Custom experiences created within mass-market games (e.g. Minecraft)

Any other suggestions? This is still a big work in progress. I just wanted to share this idea on how to decentralize culture before it slipped my mind. All input is welcome!