Living Is A Jewish Value. Partake In It.

living is a jewish value. partake in it. <3

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Synagogue of Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands

Dutch vintage postcard

This is the irony of massively over-glutted markets.

When I was a tyke, there would be, on average, four films showing in theaters at any point in time. Four. Nowadays I go to the theater and there's sixteen films available... only not really. There's still just four. Because everybody only wants to see The New Disney Film, The New Comic Book Film, The New Fauxgressive Film, and The New Oscar Bait film.

If you go back to the theater, you don't go to one of those niche movies that's playing... you just go see Barbie again. Or Star Wars again. Or there's a new Star Wars to replace the old Star Wars already. Whatever.

You go onto your streaming platform of choice and there's hundreds, if not thousands of options... but you don't watch them. You watch Star Trek again. Or the new Star Trek. Or the other new Star Trek. Maybe you watch the new ATLA so you have something to complain about before you rewatch the old ATLA for the fiftieth time.

If you DO watch something new, it's because social media pressured you into doing it, and it's rarely really new. "Fine, fine, I'll watch House," you announce on Tumblr, the very site where thousands of posts brought up House to you, and now you're networked with thousands of people all chatting about House. Have you seen Columbo, you gotta watch Columbo, get an Amazon account and watch Columbo so you get all the memes. Don't gamble on a new show, your viewing time is precious and there's no memes for that anyhow.

As for video games, the main social pressure I see is that you must play games that look good on stream. Not games you're good at, or enjoy, or have been a fan of for years/decades. Games that look good when you stream. You gotta play Dark Souls because it's funny to the audience when you die hundreds of times. You gotta play Getting Over It because it's funny to the audience when you fall and start screaming and blow out the mic. Play ragebait games so you rage so you get more tips on stream. Play Hogwarts Legacy because the audience will be mad at YOU and that leads to more clicks more eyeballs more engagement.

What? You thought gaming was about your personal pleasure in the hobby? Fuck you. Drop another seventy dollars on a game you hate so the audience will watch you suffer. Why else would you play?

I totally agree with your points about how everything is being released to appeal to the widest audience possible. I think part of why producers do that is that audiences are becoming impossible to reach because there's literally too much out there. Audience behavior is changing. We expect more all the time, we expect everything to be The Best Thing Ever, we become angry when meaningfully challenged, we binge and simultaneously we never give anything outside our current binge preferences a chance.

And part of the irony I alluded to is that, functionally, with some media, we the audience aren't behaving differently than we did in the 1980s. We might as well only have four movies in the theaters and five channels on our analogue TVs and ten major books released per season and ten video games released per year, because that's about all any given human seems to be able to meaningfully process in a given year.

it's fucking me up how tv shows, movies, and even video games can't be "niche" content anymore

Jews: “So, these are the laws that we have, and these are the ‘fences’ we have culturally put up around the law, to prevent accidentally breaking them, or accidentally leading others to break them. Understanding what those ‘fences’ actually are and their implications can make it a lot more feasible to actually follow these laws. If taken to the most extreme, things can get unwieldy. It’s commonly understood that we live by the laws, not die by them. For example, even though people might assume this isn’t kosher, it’s totally permissible because—”

Edgy atheist whose family dragged him to a Baptist church every Wednesday: “Jews rules lawyering God to get around their stupid oppressive made up laws 🙄”