It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager.
Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022
a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.streaming services saved the industry from literal /1 https://t.co/CaSYct4TS6— Ariele 🌐🏗️ (@weatherdai) March 10, 2024
I do not understand how Hollywood apparently learned nothing (nothing!) from the huge vast insane popularity of Knives Out, a solid film that would have just been a normal film twenty years ago https://t.co/NFc6ciJvOo— Amber Sparks (@ambernoelle) June 19, 2023
Streaming platforms are actively making themselves worse because they have hit the max amount of customers they'll get and their shareholders want infinite growth which isn't possible so in the short term they are gutting themselves to save money by removing shows to avoid— Fletcher (@marshonstupi) May 24, 2023
I hate how in the new trend of "oners," they often call attention(!) to themselves, and you instantly know the action will follow a video-gamey and predetermined path. they're not thrillingly invisible or feats of great filmmaking. They just kind of ...happen, but in an empty way— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) April 28, 2023
the fact that roger ebert wrote this is 2009, way before fandom and reference culture was anywhere near as ubiquitous as it is now... pic.twitter.com/OXtPLwwRCm— acquired waste 🇺🇦 (@camelcrushed) October 9, 2022
“I think about how The Iron Giant was a MASSIVE flop at the box office, but still became a household name because DVD sales shot up after repeat airings on Cartoon Network. That's never happening again.”