In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies

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• MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its cheaper and doesn’t follow the same tired formulas.

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. Novody is making the fifth crappy remake of that cool podcast you follow / etc

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  • Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean it’s often just 20 second snippets or game reviews or asinine nerd-political gaming commentary? A ton of it is very formulaic.

    Do you watch scripted TV?

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I consume both and internet content is, in my opinion, MORE formulaic than scripted shows and movies.
• infectoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just like fresh content. Stuff that is perhaps a little more rough around the edges but more authentic.

  So many great creators deserve my attention before most of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days.

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  • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s exactly how I articulated by thoughts to a friend the other day. Authenticity is paramount to my jaded brain. Besides, I’ve already seen the best TV series of all time in Breaking Bad, so why watch any more studio productions after that?

    Old MST3K episodes don’t count 🙃

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather spend 30-45 min watching a guy my age working in their homelab with enterprise equipment from the early 2000s than watch most modern movies

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh what channels are you watching?

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I only really watch one channel about networking/sysadmin: clabretro - youtube.com/@clabretro

      Here is a rundown of all my yt subscriptions:

      Accursed Farms - Ross Scott’s channel, creator of the Freeman’s Mind series and a leader (?) of the Stop Killing Games movement: youtube.com/@accursed_farms

      Alasdair Becket-King - British comedian making funny sketches: youtube.com/@abeckettking

      All The Gear - Two former car youtubers, now doing odd challenges, like making a shelter from stuff from poundland, walking across a country in a day, camping on a roundabout and more: youtube.com/@allthe_gear

      Anders Enger Jensen - A Norwegian guy making great synth music: youtube.com/@andersengerjensen

      Barely Sociable - Well made videos about darker subjects: youtube.com/@barelysociable

      Behind The Bastards - Podcast about bad people: youtube.com/@behindthebastards

      Bigclivedotcom - A scotsman reviewing cheap Chinese electronics, experimenting with carbonating alcohol and more all in a calm voice: youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

      BobbyBroccoli - A guy making videos about science scandals and controversies: youtube.com/@bobbybroccoli

      Brain Blaze - Simon Whistler making videos about fun topics: youtube.com/@brainblaze6526

      Brick Experiment Channel - A Finish guy building Lego in silence, he has built several working radio controlled submarines, a working Lego drone and more: youtube.com/@brickexperimentchannel

      Bright Sun Films - Documentaries about abandoned places, bankrupt companies snd cancelled projects: youtube.com/@brightsunfilms

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube creators are trying hard to be fresh, bring hard hitting content, and provide content worth watching. There is considerable competition.

  Hollywood offers constant remakes, sequels, and predictable Boeing plots.

  I’ve seen many actual A24 style movies this year that were great. They can be butthurt all they want but it’s their fault

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  • Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about TV?

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• AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I prefer podcasts over all other media

  I also enjoy video games.

  I don’t think that feature-length films make sense in this environment. They’re long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that

    Watch better movies lol

    The length of movies isn’t what’s wrong with most films, bad writing is. And there’s tons of movies with great writing out there. They didn’t just stop making good movies when Disney started dominating - you’ve just become less exposed to them

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    • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh, I’d argue that the format is somewhat obsolete. When you have to travel to a cinema and pay an entry fee, the content needs to justify that effort

      Now that most content is consumed at home, feature films don’t necessarily need to exist as they have. The TV show format has adapted to the British model of a few short seasons, maybe just one.

      For certain types of feature film, I’d much rather see a miniseries that allows even more content to get screen time and tells a more developed story (documentaries have moved in this direction).

      (Yes there are great feature films still being made and I never said there aren’t… But the vast majority are not worth the time they demand that I give them)

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• peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my favorite things to watch is some random person on YouTube going about their day, making breakfast, doing chores, petting their dog, etc.

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• vxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can get braindead slop for free on Youtube and Co. I don’t need Hollywood for it. If they would challenge us instead of producing the same movie over and over again, I might get back into movies. Almost all mainstream movies are just garbage.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hollywood is catering more to Asia audience than the west anyways. shitty written movies with actio heros is more interesting to the asian demographics in asia. thats why beast and logan is so popular there.

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