Perhaps, but that would still mean Sanderson is wrong here in attributing the blame to straight-to-streaming, when it’s actually due to the rise of social media. Which has meant that for my age group (young millennials, going through teenage years through the mid-to-late ’00s to early ’10s) it’s been true the whole time we’ve been paying our own way to the movies.
Comment on Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short)
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoBefore YouTube and social media, and for quite a few years after their advent, theater trailers were THE way to get a glimpse at an upcoming movie, and usually the ONLY way.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yea I agree. Like I said in the OP text, there may have been a long drawn out transition that is only hitting hard enough now, especially because of age demographics. If true, you’d expect that we’ve reached the point where the internet generations (millennial and younger) are the majority of the potential cinema going audience.
Which feels right.
It seems to me that 90s kid millennials and their young children are the current “mainstream”. And boomers have just shifted out of dominance in the past 5 years or so. The pandemic may have masked this shift TBH and we may have been talking about it more if it weren’t for the pandemic.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Once again, poor Gen Xers get ignored.
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ha. Yea. Having a boomer generation does these sorts of things. Like both X and Y (millennial) gens have also transitioned sharply from being young (and “stupid”) to now actually old and ridiculed by younger gens. The dominance of the boomers gen in size allowed their perspective over X and Y to culturally persist.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Yeah but at least we (millennials) exist in popular culture and the public discourse. You never even hear about gen X unless it’s someone pointing out how you never hear about them.