Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.
Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.
I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.
Weekend trips to Blockbusters to rent out a game and movie is gone.
When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called “brain break” and “brain rot”.
I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.
Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”
Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.
All the stuff I enjoyed is gone, and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now. The last bastion of enjoyment zi have is older media and indie made stuff by a few select artist/small teams . Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?
Fair.
I’m struggling with that a lot right now. I’m not even “old”, I’m a martial artist, I’m a computer graphics artist, I want to design games, but I’m constantly feeling too slow to handle everything.
Am I getting dumber? Am I getting slower? Why is it taking longer to remember things?
And I feel my sense of imagination and wonder is slipping, being replaced more and more by “impending threats” anxiety: “Oh shit, food prices are doing what now?” “Wait what fundamental freedom are they now ‘cracking down’ on?”
A lot of artists and gamedevs and tabletop game masters all say they have “too many ideas.” Lately I just see fog and don’t know how to engage my creativity.
I wonder if COVID stole my brain power. :(
It’s so hard to know, there’s not much of a control group anymore!
But some of it will just be aging too and maybe pressure you’re putting on yourself?