Future of Media Consumption - The Woke Parasite has ruined everything

[GGSurvivor]

Longtime lurker here. Over the past year I have been trying on/off to get into Star Trek. I watched most of the OS and enjoyed it, as well as season 1 of Star Trek Enterprise. This isn't in the Star Trek thread because it has gotten me thinking about "treasured media" and the video game industry as a whole. I've shied away from emotionally investing in anything after Game of Thrones and Attack on Titan. I've grown tired of seeing everything I used to love being turned into total garbage to appease a mythical demographic of the upwardly-mobile BIPOC consumer class. Is the era of "enlightened" mass consumption dead and gone? Whether it be World of Warcraft, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. it seems like all that has been put out for the past decade has been slop. This surely cannot go on forever as funds dry up and audiences grow tired of stale IPs. I've seen some people actually go back to reading "great books" like Tolstoy because the worst the mainstream media can do is make a butchered movie or show about it like they're doing with the latest Iliad.

It's also an issue of culture. There really isn't the "nerd who is deeply invested in X-media thing and a little socially awkward/autistic" anymore. They've either moved on or trooned out. Where does the "chud" demographic, or whatever, get their sources of meaning now? I'm hesitant in showing my future children Star Wars or any of the IPs I grew up with because it seems like a huge waste of time.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

It's also an issue of culture. There really isn't the "nerd who is deeply invested in X-media thing and a little socially awkward/autistic" anymore. They've either moved on or trooned out. Where does the "chud" demographic, or whatever, get their sources of meaning now? I'm hesitant in showing my future children Star Wars or any of the IPs I grew up with because it seems like a huge waste of time.

We get our sources from racist twitter memes/yt channels, forums like this, obscure old media (you could live to 300 and still have stuff to find prior to the 21st century, ), the rare niche indie stuff that either aligns with us politically or is neutral, or finding meaning outside of fiction like the outdoors and art. There's also foreign media from east-asia and south-America that's not subject to western style progressivism, but then you have to contend with not being able to enjoy your own heritage and culture. I'm guessing from your username you've come from places like r/kotaku in action right? There's too much doomerism there. If your far-right you need to come to terms with being a minority and adapting to it. Instead of complaining about there being nothing for you, find even the nichiest of stuff that does appeal to you and promote it, or take it as a sign to create something that is for you.

 

[GGSurvivor]

We get our sources from racist twitter memes/yt channels, forums like this, obscure old media (you could live to 300 and still have stuff to find prior to the 21st century, ), the rare niche indie stuff that either aligns with us politically or is neutral, or finding meaning outside of fiction like the outdoors and art. There's also foreign media from east-asia and south-America that's not subject to western style progressivism, but then you have to contend with not being able to enjoy your own heritage and culture. I'm guessing from your username you've come from places like r/kotaku in action right? There's too much doomerism there. If your far-right you need to come to terms with being a minority and adapting to it. Instead of complaining about there being nothing for you, find even the nichiest of stuff that does appeal to you and promote it, or take it as a sign to create something that is for you.

I have not come from there, but I do think X (where I come from) is about the same. I do think that the world really did break in 2014-2016 and we've just been seeing the effects of that ever since. Maybe it's just "I want to be a kid again" too, where I liked things that were slightly political but had a story to tell, and not everything was a poorly-written Trump allegory. I do get my meaning from literature, weightlifting, and aesthetics, but it's more a matter of: Is the subculture that once existed forever dead and gone? What would replace it?

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

It's also an issue of culture. There really isn't the "nerd who is deeply invested in X-media thing and a little socially awkward/autistic" anymore. They've either moved on or trooned out. Where does the "chud" demographic, or whatever, get their sources of meaning now?

Congratulations. You brought up the very thing I've been talking about on this site for quite a while.

 

[GAY DEAD MUPPET GANGBANG]

Here's your answer:

Ignore NuTrek and stick to the old stuff. It still exists and you can watch it anytime and show your kids THAT. Just say "Oh, post 2009, you don't want to watch that bullshit."

I know this is essentially letting the vandals win, but they've already killed it. NOT watching it solely because they've hijacked the brand is what you need to do, because that was the whole purpose behind them doing it to begin with.

 

[Core i7-3770K]

Here's your answer:

Ignore NuTrek and stick to the old stuff. It still exists and you can watch it anytime and show your kids THAT. Just say "Oh, post 2009, you don't want to watch that bullshit."

I know this is essentially letting the vandals win, but they've already killed it. NOT watching it solely because they've hijacked the brand is what you need to do, because that was the whole purpose behind them doing it to begin with.

Honestly I'd add the caveat that you should also pretend Voyager and Enterprise don't exist either. NuTrek is trash, but Janeway is still the objective worst Trek captain, and while Enterprise improved a lot in the back half, it still never actually got to be good.

 

[GAY DEAD MUPPET GANGBANG]

Honestly I'd add the caveat that you should also pretend Voyager and Enterprise don't exist either. NuTrek is trash, but Janeway is still the objective worst Trek captain, and while Enterprise improved a lot in the back half, it still never actually got to be good.

I personally want to check out Enterprise, but yeah, from everything I've seen of Voyager, it's definitely the worst. Wasted concept.

Still better than anything post-2009 though.

 

[Memes Cat]

Here's your answer:

Ignore NuTrek and stick to the old stuff. It still exists and you can watch it anytime and show your kids THAT. Just say "Oh, post 2009, you don't want to watch that bullshit."

I know this is essentially letting the vandals win, but they've already killed it. NOT watching it solely because they've hijacked the brand is what you need to do, because that was the whole purpose behind them doing it to begin with.

The crazy thing is this Starfleet Academy makes STD look "good" in comparison. So nuTrek keeps sliding down in quality just when you think it couldn't go any lower. Any criticisms of series like Enterprise seems so trivial now since we now have proof they can do way worse Star Trek.