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This is something I've seen people discussing due to the announcement of a new channel called MeTV Toons, a new over-the-air channel with scheduled programming that is gonna be all about playing classic cartoons... so basically, its gonna be like what Boomerang used to be before Cartoon Network shit it up (or heck, what CN itself used to be).
Whenever I mention this, the reaction seems to be one of two things.
Strangely, the people who are like "why bother when I can just stream/torrent these shows?" seem to be a minority.
Cuz more and more, I've noticed people don't like streaming.
And I don't mean just the shitty decisions that companies like Netflix make. I mean just the whole way streaming works is unappealing to people.
And judging from conversations I've had, it seems like people have realized a problem: A lot of times, people don't self-actuate--that is, they won't do something without an outside force (like, say, a schedule) forcing their hands. A lot of times streaming tends to result in the "so many choices you can't make up your mind and you wind up just doing something else" effect.
I dunno about anyone else but I can vouch for this--there's so many shows that, if they were just on a list of "what do you want to watch?" I would probably never have bothered--indeed even before streaming, most of my DVD collection just gathered dust. Most of my favorite TV programs are things I would never have bothered watching if not for the situation of "its so-and-so time of day, there's nothing else going on, and this show is the most interesting of what's on offer."
Part of me also wonders if this accounts for how reliant modern streaming is on reboots and remakes of old properties: If I've never heard of a thing before it tends to be a harder sell, but tell me "its a new He-Man" and I'm at least gonna notice, even if I go in thinking its gonna be shit. And the model is, again, inherently bad for selling properties anyway: If you're browsing a streaming service description, they tend to be sparse (and hard to read due to interface issues)... the old model was "watch an actual episode of the damn show and if you're interested, come back for more next time."
Heck, this is exactly why Tiktok gets popular, because it just shows you a bunch of shit one after another.
This is where some might say "internet reviews"--again tho, that goes back to the Self-Actualization problem: it implies I'm gonna sit there and look up reviews of every single show I see listed, and I'm just not. Even if I did, I would likely just look at metacritic scores and those are just a meaningless abstract number (this is before even accounting for personal issues like "I don't trust internet opinions anyway.")
Essentially... it feels like new technology always ends up confirming that those who resisted change were, in a way, right.... the new thing always seems like an "obvious upgrade" but then in actual practice, it never is, whether its motion controls or streaming services.
But what do you think?
Whenever I mention this, the reaction seems to be one of two things.
Strangely, the people who are like "why bother when I can just stream/torrent these shows?" seem to be a minority.
Cuz more and more, I've noticed people don't like streaming.
And I don't mean just the shitty decisions that companies like Netflix make. I mean just the whole way streaming works is unappealing to people.
And judging from conversations I've had, it seems like people have realized a problem: A lot of times, people don't self-actuate--that is, they won't do something without an outside force (like, say, a schedule) forcing their hands. A lot of times streaming tends to result in the "so many choices you can't make up your mind and you wind up just doing something else" effect.
I dunno about anyone else but I can vouch for this--there's so many shows that, if they were just on a list of "what do you want to watch?" I would probably never have bothered--indeed even before streaming, most of my DVD collection just gathered dust. Most of my favorite TV programs are things I would never have bothered watching if not for the situation of "its so-and-so time of day, there's nothing else going on, and this show is the most interesting of what's on offer."
Part of me also wonders if this accounts for how reliant modern streaming is on reboots and remakes of old properties: If I've never heard of a thing before it tends to be a harder sell, but tell me "its a new He-Man" and I'm at least gonna notice, even if I go in thinking its gonna be shit. And the model is, again, inherently bad for selling properties anyway: If you're browsing a streaming service description, they tend to be sparse (and hard to read due to interface issues)... the old model was "watch an actual episode of the damn show and if you're interested, come back for more next time."
Heck, this is exactly why Tiktok gets popular, because it just shows you a bunch of shit one after another.
This is where some might say "internet reviews"--again tho, that goes back to the Self-Actualization problem: it implies I'm gonna sit there and look up reviews of every single show I see listed, and I'm just not. Even if I did, I would likely just look at metacritic scores and those are just a meaningless abstract number (this is before even accounting for personal issues like "I don't trust internet opinions anyway.")
Essentially... it feels like new technology always ends up confirming that those who resisted change were, in a way, right.... the new thing always seems like an "obvious upgrade" but then in actual practice, it never is, whether its motion controls or streaming services.
But what do you think?
