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 -  (2 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.

[–]RightousBob 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Time for people to rise up and create, support and share in the creation of a new media. Media that makes the old paradigm obsolete.

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's harder than it sounds when alternatives to their media are attacked from multiple angles, and with practiced precision and expertise. Every twitter alternative like gab and parler get shut down for "violence" while twitter get to stay up despite having far more violent content. It is trivial for these big corporations to have teams of people who will post content that is then used as justification to shut down their competition.