I think there’s more good stuff out there than ever, but:
- We don’t have a good search engine to locate it.
- It’s easier than ever to put stuff out there, so it’s lower quality on average.
- People hide their stuff inside discord servers and, increasingly, behind paywalls.
Right! It’s not that there’s less. It’s that there’s a discoverability issue, and on top of that more stuff means less cultural relevance for any given work.
less cultural relevance for any given work.
This is what hurts the most tbh. Miss the days when all your friends were playing the same handful of games, everyone was talking about the same handful of movies and TV shows, etc. Of course variety is great and being able to choose where to invest your time is better than being locked in to a small pool of choices, but it sucks when you feel like you’ve stumbled upon a masterpiece, and nobody cares about it.
I dunno, i have teenage nephews… they all play the same games, watch the same movies, and watch the same shows.
but they are teenagers. their world horizon is very limited.
There’s more, but it feels less because it’s quantity over quality. There’s so much more content but the quality has degraded that finding something of good quality in a sea of crap and slop is becoming a challenge.
Well I can’t answer the other parts, but for games: The games industry has been going through a massive upheaval from ~2022-2025 has seen a staggering number of layoffs, games being canceled, and studios being shuttered. We’d be seeing a lot more games right now if they hadn’t been axed over the years.
In the indie game dev side, its sort of* an indiepocalypse where battling for a smidgen of spotlight on Steam is brutal - and even financial “success” doesn’t mean you’ll have enough to follow up with another game. Also because of the above publishers aren’t funding many AA games so its hard to get those going to.
*Its a little different for niches and certain genres so this is a generalization.
you have always had to filter good art (literally all media, really…filter for quality or go insane) from bad art, there’s just a lot more shit to go through now with ai content.
Because there’s less companies making media…
30 studios will all want to have the blockbuster game of the year, then 2-3 others to be safe.
3 studios want the same thing, but that’s a tenth of the games.
Plus to make it even worse rather than a game being a one off sale, maybe some dlc, they want “live service” where people keep buying cosmetics. The studios don’t want people buying a bunch of games, they want you playing their flagship and only flagship.
It’s less that the biggest studios but up smaller for talent, IP, or anything. They’re buying them up to shit them down to squash competition. That’s why we’re seeing it all over. Why bother making good media, when they can just make sure theirs is the only option?
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Delete your YouTube history, retrain the algo. My tip is female exercise videos work the same muscles but don’t put you on the incel algorithm.
Tool reviews are another area dripping in incel content. I installed a 3rd party blocker to keep that shit at bay.
I’ll have to start searching for “M12 milwaukee crown stapler female user”.
Is there a manosphere specific content blocker?
I use BlockTube for Firefox to manually block videos and channels. I don’t know if there’s a premade list or anything.
The
Not InterestedandDon't Recommend Channelbuttons work surprisingly well for this. I am very protective of my algorithm so I try to avoid videos that I think will open up the flood gates for shitty content but in the event that it does, a few choice clicks of those two buttons usually has things bavk under control pretty quick.They don’t. I kept getting recs from channels I tried that with. Altright/manosphere shit.
They definitely do because my recommendations are squeaky clean 98% of the time and those buttons, along with not clicking on shit that I think will poison my feed are the main tools I use to keep things clean.
One thing to keep in mind is that YT makes changes to their algorithm every once in a while. For me, that typically manifests as sports channels, especially the NFL, or political stuff making their way into my feed. A few clicks of those buttons and I’m back to normal.
I’ve repeatedly gotten recommended the same channel I told it I wasn’t interested in.
All I can give you is an anecdote about my own experience. In said experience I’ve not had any non-starter issues with those two tools. They work for me until Youtube changes its algorithm.
This is why I mentioned the NFL channel as an example. It’s my canary in the coalmine of Youtube. When the NFL channel (among other sports related channels) pops back up on my feed, I know that YouTube has changed something in the algorithm.
I just click
Not InterestedandDon't Recommend Channeland away it goes for another year or so until they make another change. Simple as.I’ve curated a recommendation feed that is highly specific to my interests as a result. Not sure why that method wouldn’t work for you.
It only feels that way because one doesn’t explore.
On a creative standpoint, the well of originality is drying up quickly.
exploring is legitimately harder than it used to be, at least via the internet.
Because in the case of YT, Google incentivizes slop farms, or at least they used to, supposedly they’re cracking down on slop farms now, but I don’t believe for a second that it’s for a good reason, instead why I think Google is allegedly cracking down on slop farms is to eliminate competition for their homegrown Veo 3 slop.
Because you’re not looking.
We have more games, videos, music, and art available right now then at any time in previous history.Not my experience? Search and community have both gotten worse though, and these were great for finding good stuff.
idk I don’t feel that way and could list many cool games, albums and videos from this and last year. I can only theorize that for others with that feeling it doesn’t help that AI is a thing, and separately if you are reliant on an algorithm and get lazy, it’ll give you slop and you won’t feel fulfilled
edit: misspell
A coworker showed me a quote from this guy, Steve Magness (https://www.stevemagness.com/) that sums it up really well - When we’re constantly ‘killing time’ on our phones/screens in every waking moment that our attention isn’t otherwise required, we suck up the space that was once reserved for creativity and fill it with garbage instead. We fragment our attention and rarely get lost in our thoughts or follow up on cool ideas. Creativity is dying first before it’s born because we don’t just sit and engage with our own ideas like we did once…we just scroll.
The second factor is the giant, impossibly sophisticated psychological rat’s maze the internet has become for content… we are fed much more than we truly discover, and every day 100k tons more AI shit is shoveled over real, genuine ideas… and it’s that bullshit the algorithm will serve you. You have a lot less agency and exposure online than you THINK you do… and that is by design. If you have been on the internet for more than 10 years, then you remember when that was very much not the case and feel the difference.
Hang out with local, creative people in person, ask them what they’re into. Stare out a window and think thoughts, shut your phone off and read books. The good news is that there is SO MUCH good shit in the world already that the decline of our civilization and its creative output isn’t so bad, if you just get some distance from it.
Everything and every platform has become gamified and there’s no room for true artistic creation anymore.
Algorithm doesn’t have an incentive to shiw anything good, only engaging content. Which is usually trash
