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Does anyone else feel less willing to humor media these days? (hexbear.net)

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I feel like I'm pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I'm always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own... I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I'm just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I'm going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I'll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I've been pretty skeptical of Latest Thing since like... the Bush years. But even for my old jaded feathery butt, there's something different about the streaming era of prestige-chasing short run shows that manages to somehow capture even less of my interest. Things that exist in the public consciousness because a streaming platform has bought space from itself to advertise its own stuff to everyone on the same schedule to fake there being an interest in it.