In hindsight, though, I feel like my generation (Millennials) stopped giving a damn about earnestness and authenticity—and instead chased aspiration and performance.
Because that’s what Vice, BuzzFeed, American Apparel were really about.
They weren’t cultural creatives as much as media properties that tried to define themselves by acquiring and assembling culture—seeking status through taste.
@atomicpoet Not if the corporations that run this world have anything to do with it. Either that or they will find a way to own the air that you breathe. Do not touch the money of the ultra wealthy in this world. They will find a way to make you pay...like for lifesaving medicine. Consumption will never stop. What future generations consume will change but not likely by their choice but by what they can afford.
@atomicpoet
🎼 play on Fortnite on Twitch free
🎼 just watch all night and tell me you’ll boost me
🎼 while I’m at home with fans watching me
🎼 stream a little stream of me..
@atomicpoet you’re right, but i take a more optimistic view.
Things are changing & we lose some aspects and gain others. Using music as an example, sure I don’t own the music I love listening to any more, but I have discovered so much more music then ever before & experience far wider styles.
In reality everything is impermanent. One day we each die leaving a bunch of “stuff” we held onto. We are all ethereal, ultimately.
Media vanishing off platforms is a real issue though.
The #productivity due to technological leaps is so outstandingly high already and is still growing if only humanity manages to NOT get Darwin-awarded while conducting it. #Business'es are going to be more and more based on artificial restriction of goods/services to adjust markets & prices.
@atomicpoet people don’t "own" things anymore because now the people themselves are owned. Owned by the systems they suddenly rely on. (e.g. music, social nets, Amazon Fresh deliveries, search engines, youtubes, cashless coffee shops, et al)
enjoy your pampered, coddled. existence until it's taken away, or worse.
@atomicpoet@BlackAzizAnansi why bother streaming when i can meditate on the suffering that streaming induces ans achieve essentially the same outcome more or less
Both Buzzfeed and Vice tried to survive and do journalism in a world of falling media revenue.
They tried all kinds of tricks, ranging from paying people far less to using AI. It's striking even these bare bone attempts weren't enough to save their journalism.
Maybe Rolling Stone survives because there are enough loyal boomers who want to pay for it. Rather than because it succeeded in cutting costs.
@atomicpoet It's in moments like this that I appreciate being a Gen-Xer... We never had anything, our idols are long dead or irrelevant, so we're "sorta fine, sorta depressed" the way we've always been.
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