Back in the 1930s, the
Hays Code was implemented and had strict censorship guidelines on movies produced by Hollywood for the time it was there. When its power ended in the 60s, we saw a bunch of weird movies and more creative freedom for better or worse afterwards. From the start of TV to the 1990s,
about 3 companies dominated the airwaves of American TV. The proliferation of cable, satellite, and small independent stations made it so more creative freedom from the big networks and their executives' preferred positions/large audience majority rule. The internet and social media boom finally made it so everyone can post everywhere their niche interest and thoughts, and find likeminded people and make likeminded communities. Authenticity is hard to find and different to everyone. There's weird filters everywhere and it is hard to find things we love now as we are absolutely flooded with choice. Many of these are ok to crap: there's few that are good or talented. It's hard to sift through them all and it can be overwhelming when you just want to fucking relax, but it is out there. You can call older movies and TV shows sincere in their storytelling since they don't try to undercut their emotional impact with jokes and irony, but not authentic. Authentic to the emotions of the human experience yes, not IRL authentic. And even the ones that are are merely the ones that are remembered: does anyone outside of older women remember or reminisce about fucking
Dynasty, the show that ran for ten fucking years and had multiple spinoffs? No, because who gives a fuck. There were more popular for its day things that people forget and bury than not, and our minds think the ratio of good media:bad media was 1:1 or 1:4 instead of the same it is now, 1:100.
Attention whores always existed since the days of ye old. There have been plenty of stories about people lighting fires just to be in history books or climbing the ranks just to get asspats and adoration. The newer old versions of this are "I want to be a Hollywood or TVstar!", "I want to be a world famous musician of rock/rap/country/your mom!", and any variation of wanting to be on moving pictures or audio. This was a harder task back in the day because it required you to be in a certain location to get noticed, and people would eventually realize they probably shouldn't because they don't have the money to move to a recording studio area or Southern California. Nowadays, attention whore behavior can be rewarded as it is much easier to make videos and music from your own home. It is also shared publicly because human love drama. See: this site. Any cluster-B attention seeking faggot can now get popular by hard work, churning out post aftet post until it goes viral. They aren't confined by geography anymore (or lack of talent). They dominate the internet thanks to their hard work being vacuous and it doesn't help that the L.A. Nepobabies have similar fucking mental problems, just more money to use and more strings they can pull (and more insulation from consequences).
Point is, if you want authenticity, you have to search for it. If you want honest documentaries, you have to look for it. If you want nerds talking about things they love, you have to look for it (and farmers will give you youtube channels if you're interested). If you want media that isn't forced to have politics in it 24/7 to impress the maker's social circle, you have to look for it and look for others who look for it. If you want sincerity, you have to look for it.
There's still authetic and sincere people out there too. It's easy to be blackpilled because this retard is talked about along with other morons, but the good news is that people like Braden get talked badly about by most people (normal humans). Most tiktok and youtube stars aren't seen as rolemodels, and those who talk about them might be talking the ears off about them to anyone who will listen because they are obsessed with attention and fame themselves. Young people do want to try that lotto for internet fame as it means cash and security for a good future seemingly without the hard sacrifice needed for other secure positions, but most grow up and continue their hobbies on the side rather than fall into the youtube/twitch/kick fame trap. Most kids will grow out of it.
TL;DR: Humans are retarded but have always been. It sucks to see but don't get blackpilled. It's hard to find good media, but it is out there and you can still have fun, you just have to filter your HUGE amount of choices. Communicating with others who enjoy what you enjoy helps a lot.
