Do you feel you have outgrown media sources or discontinued them for other reasons?
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Traditional news ironically. It seems to be the “adult” thing to watch the news but it’s just gloomy and controlling. Just wanna claw my eyes out every time I hear them exclaim “X is outrageous!” “The West has fallen.” “We live in a third world country!” “Migrants are destroying America!”. Pisses me off so much. It’s entirely irrelevant whether or not I agree, but it’s how they try to force you to think or feel a certain way, treating us like children. Just tell me the facts like an adult so I can decide for myself.
“News as entertainment” I believe they call it. Total trash IMO.
This one hits home, but because it feels like I’ve lost my parent to the 24 hour news cycle. They also had motorcycle accident around a decade ago that might have caused some brain damage. If there was damage, it was never formally identified by a medical professional.
I’ve watched them become more angry at and scared of the world as they grow older. I don’t fully agree with their beliefs on various topics, but always try to listen and understand why they feel the way they do.
It’s so frustrating to watch someone you care about ruin themselves trying to stay “informed” while surrounding themselves with others that contribute to confirmation bias.
If you’re looking for a good show, Sorkin made “The Newsroom” on HBO a few years back. Very good take on what happened with the news and flips it around.
But I’ll warn you that you’ll get angry, because what they accomplish there will not happen in our timeline.
Cable TV for over 10 yrs now. I‘m not blasting my brain with ads and doom news.
Game consoles since after ps3, I was thinking about ps5 in 2020 but I didnt want to buy a small car so now I‘m not interested anymore.
I have t had commercial TV since 2005. It’s media with ads, isn’t on-demand, and doesn’t have the stuff I want—even dumber if a paid service. That stopped being an option a generation ago.
The only time I turn the tv on is when my niece is around and wants to see bluey. For streaming I’ll use my computer or phone because I like to wach with headphones
Online Multiplayer. I used to love to connect with people, friends and strangers and play games. Now I just want to play alone on my terms and find it super annoying when games introduce online stuff into the single player mode, like raids.
I still enjoy the occasional couch co-op though.
Television in general. Video in general. A movie is nice now and then, but I almost never seek it out.
I can relate to this. I feel like if a medium relies on getting as many eyes as possible, be it from the studios or even the creators themselves, they aren’t as engaging, since I’ve seen the same thing over and over. I sort of understand, though. Any time-based visual media can spend a lot for its production, so you gotta take in as much as possible to make up for it. Nowadays I read books that don’t have as much pressure or certain movies, but that’s it.
I literally stopped watching movies, especially Bollywood and Hollywood movies. Somewhere along the line, I just decided to consume almost exclusively Japanese media, particularly anime. The simple reason is that anime tells some really amazing stories that most Hollywood movies don’t hold a candle against. Think Attack on Titan or FMA. I am not saying that all Japanese media is great, no it’s not. But, the variety there is pretty amazing.
I kinda went the other direction where I had to cut out all anime. Too many fascist undertones and sexualizing children for it to be comfortable to watch for me.
Obviously not all shows/movies from anime do those but it’s difficult to really know until you’ve already started watching and so it’s safer to just cut it out.
I do like some of it, but far too often the story is going along fine and then it’s like SURPRISE HAREM! SURPRISE SLAVERY (and the main character is fine with that). Too bad Crunchyroll doesn’t have a tag for “not creepy”.
I take extra care to avoid harem anime. I hate them too. Eventually, you learn to identify them from a distance. Harem anime tend to have a pretty identifiable look.
Hollywood is too formulaic, at least when you shake it up with foreign media you dont really know where its going to go.
I enjoyed Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon quite a bit. It’s not exceptional or great, but good. It certainly tells a unique story.
Comedy news shows. They can be funny, but the more I learn about topics in depth the more I realize how much biased the shows are. A segment that might have previously left me feeling better informed might instead make me feel like someone is trying to fool me or tell a one sided story.
In one episode of last week tonight, John Oliver was roasting Boris Johnson for mumbling the poem ‘Road to Mandalay’ while visiting Myanmar. Calling the act, absolutely offensive or something. Now, not a whole lot of Myanmar people here don’t know the poem. And among those who know, the poem is either fairly well regarded or they hold no such feelings like taking offense. Atleast among the people I know. Boris Johnson’s an absolute clown, but you can definitely sense the bias there.
Bingo. John Oliver is one of the worst offenders here, I think. He has a slick, humorous presentation style and a lot of his material is genuinely informative. At the same time, as you note he’ll throw in something that is either horribly cherry picked or has a bad misinterpretation.
I stopped watching “last week tonight” after seeing some episodes about topics I was already informed about. I realized that the amount of truth-bending was borderline malicious.
Well, if “media” is in general, I’d have to say television. I’ll watch some things once in a while, but for the most part, I have way too much anxiety from a bad marriage. Audio books, and certain Youtube channels can trigger it, too.
Bruh, this doesn’t sound healthy at all.
We’re all broken somehow
Television. Can’t remember the last time I turned my TV on to actually watch TV. It’s mostly for streaming, but even that’s getting harder to keep up with. It just feels like there are too many services and shows to keep track of. If I sit down and watch a show then I really need to want to watch it. More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.
More and more I’ve been listening to podcasts or treating Youtube videos like podcasts. It lets me multitask in a way that sitting down and trying to watch something just doesn’t.
How much of them do you catch as you’re multitasking? Any time I try this I’m astounded at my unwitting ability to almost entirely tune out whatever they’re talking about, defeating any point to playing the podcast outside of giving myself some background noise.
Its a trainable skill. Ive got it to the point where my boss doesnt give me shit about listening to audiobooks while I work because I’m faster when I do.
I don’t watch television, streaming shows, or movies for the most part for years now.
I’ve got podcasts, music, video games, and books left.
May I ask why? Just curious.
Watching something doesn’t really feel engaging anymore. With audio mediums I’m usually doing something else like walking or working.
Gaming consoles for me.
When the PS4 came out, I couldn’t justify spending that much for a device that doesn’t have the amount of utility as a PC, nor are the games retro compatible. I’m a PC gaming convert.
Inb4 anyone says Reddit.
I mean, I didn’t outgrow reddit, I like the reddit platform, just not the guy running it
3-2-1 Contact
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but at some point I stopped receiving that magazine.
There was always a section called “BASIC Training” that had a bunch of source code in BASIC. They wouldn’t tell you what it did. You had to try and guess what it did, then type it into your computer to find out whether you were right. But I didn’t have a computer.
In 1994 I finally got a computer, and immediately opened up the QBASIC interpreter and started typing it all in, to see what it did.
Holy shit I just realized that’s 30 years ago this year.
YouTube. From around 2008 - 2016, it was pretty much my only source of media and entertainment. I was subscribed to so many different channels and never missed an upload. I could spend hours just binge watching all types of content. These days, I only watch / follow a handful of creators. Really only visit the site when I have nothing better to do.
Same. I can’t tell if the content has declined or I’ve just outgrown it, but it went from my go-to my, “eh, if I’ve got time.”
I’m the same way. And Google’s algorithmic bullshit they pull makes it really hard to find quality content that actually keeps me interested. They killed the “magic” of finding a new favorite creator.
Streaming.
It’s the new cable, in that it sells to customers based on intentional market fragmentation. It’s actually a worse, because anything you “buy” on a streaming platform is actually just leased.
Everything that is ad-supported.
Media funded by ads has a different objective than other media. I simply reject advertising in total.
I like that simple take. It is very succinct. It pairs well with: money spent on advertising, reflects a poor quality product.
I am aware of paid alternatives to ad-supported services like email, search, etc.
Even when considering media, music is something one can buy vinyls or use a streaming service that better(?) compensate the artist.
But movies and TV? Aren’t advertisements baked in to what most consume today, albeit at different levels? For instance, product placements in movies, ad-supported free streaming, paid streaming with ads, etc.
Unless we are talking about truly independent media which is either not easily accessible/discoverable to a layman like me, or isn’t as entertaining as the mainstream ones (highly debatable/subjective, as one hasn’t explored the offerings enough).
I would genuinely like to learn more about ad-independent media, and how you consume it.
