I've watched all of the media that I use to love turn to shit in the last decade. Myspace was great, for a time. Facebook was too. Digg. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Colbert. Chapelle. JRE. YouTube. Reddit. They all got mainstreamed (or ceased to exist altogether) and they all lost their edge.

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[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 18 insightful - 7 fun18 insightful - 6 fun19 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

There used to be options. Good entertainment. Edgy, funny, powerful, truth...
Truthiness in the case of Colbert. WTF happened to that guy?
I can't even stand to look at him anymore.
That dude became a real life parody of the parody he used to be!
It's actually really damn funny, just not the way that he thinks it is. He became the joke.
JRE too, dude straight up sold out, turned his studio into a nightmare, became a rich know-it-all alcoholic type.... geez joe

Anyway, I just wanted to vent about that. Media sucks these days.
I mostly just listen to audiobooks or read.
I've been enjoying Philip K. Dick books, that dude wrote some fun and weird shit.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Agreed!!!

To not be edgy I'd guess they sold out and/or were threatened. I wonder if it was always in the ruling class' plans because...

NO ONE gets on MSM without being controllable, EVER.

While I can't even look back on old content I used to like or love without now seeing all the authoritarianism in it (sooooo many shows about cops, justice, etc, from serious to clowns, but never questioning the system), but at least they were well made. I wonder if Hollywood is spread to thin trying to control their stupid narrative, paying for glossy production and special effects instead of good scripts. The good indie content creators come up with much better material but can't compete with the factory artifice of monopoly production studios, nor should they.

[–]icebong 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

True facts. No one gets to have so much influence without a little word on what can and can not be said.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Anyone who does speak up will be stomped on (ie. Star Wars' Gina) and/or suffer (((their))) "dynamic silence".

https://SaidIt.net/search?q=dynamic+silence