Comment on Brandon Sanderson's theory on why the film industry is floundering (YouTube Short)
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months agoYea 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.
maegul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Or you sometimes hear about shitty they apparently are as people. Truly left behind.