when i was young, i think i became jaded about or at least detached from my favorite hobbies and interests and felt a 'dulling' right around when the vidya industry swung into the seventh gen (PS3/x360). i grew up with gaming and things just got worse, and have only gotten worse overtime, to the point i don't think the medium will ever celebrate passion again. my childhood hobby was utterly corporatized. in the 2010s, a lot of the people i grew up taking inspiration from took their masks off and turned out to be reprehensible and vile monsters. for example one of them rageposted on the twatter about how Trump supporters (and their children) should be thrown into woodchippers. it was shocking and isolating all at once.
the MrBeast revelations that have been brought into sharp relief by Chris Tyson's insatiable pedophilia are nothing new to us, but i wonder if younger generations are even cogent enough to recognize that they've been victims of people like him. i wonder if everything is so fake to and taken so unseriously by zoomers and their descendants that they don't care everyone and everything is fake. surely some people thought MrBeast was an inspiration? but now his dirty laundry is out there for everyone to see and it can't be obfuscated. to say nothing of what Chris Tyson was doing, busily constructing his personal pedotopia on discord. now there's credible evidence that MrBeast didn't just know Chris was a groomer, he watched it unfold and was right there in the midst of it.
Jimmy and Chris are symptoms of a much larger problem, yes, and so is the Trans thing - LGBT as a whole, really. but is anyone ever going to ask the very uncomfortable questions that would lead to anything resembling a resolution? probably not. but it's hard to imagine that people are just going to keep ignoring shit like this.