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The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world.::undefined

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

An insightful thought from a TV critic I read years ago just as streaming was taking off :

There’s no such thing as the best TV show anymore, because there’s so much that’s generally good enough to be a candidate that no one person has watched it all and spent the time to assess it properly.


More broadly, this had happened to western culture with the internet. Previously, with only three tv channels and two major papers, we were all literally on the same page.

I’d go further and say there’s a vertical dimension too in terms of complexity. Society and its various aspects such as technology are now complex enough in total they I don’t think anyone can ever say they understand what’s going on.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are tons of young millionaire youtubers who I've never heard of. It's pretty cool actually that there are so many niches to fill.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And plenty of poor low-subscriber channels that are actually really good and could blow up at some point.

I’ve certainly watched some people from before they were big and from memory their content was more or less just as good in the “early” days. Which all up makes for a pile of stuff!