I’m convinced Hollywood isn’t out of new ideas. They’re afraid of new ideas because you can’t mooch off of an existing fandom with them. As to everything else, it feels like some corporate dystopia. Companies were always cold and corporate but at least they used to be fun in the process
I think it's about risk. Making movies got more expensive. It's not enough to have latex-mask aliens and cardboard sets any more, audiences expect higher standards and studios have a reputation to maintain. A "low-budget" hollywood film is one made for only fifty million dollars. When investing that much money into a movie the studio management doesn't want to run a risk with it - they want something with a proven track record of profitability. Franchises and sequels are best because they have a fandom who are guaranteed to watch even if the film is awful. Formulaic genre films that stick to tried-and-tested elements are also a good option.
@@vylbird8014yeah look at some of the classics from the 70’s and 80’s they would get laughed off screens today. It’s an unfortunate connect of Ticket prices increasing, production costs rising, actors salaries astronomically increasing, marketing costs, and risk. Plus with the internet the way it is currently you have one bad instance of cgi in a film and suddenly it’s the only photo you’ll ever see of that movie going forward disregarding all the other amazing scenes they may have produced (I’m looking at you Quantumania). Audiences are a lot less forgiving and a sense of entitlement has risen greatly online as such studios are less likely to risk it when they don’t know if something will succeed. Genuinely if you ever want to see how the next era of films will likely go, look at Horror films. They tend to be a decade, or a little less, ahead of the major trends in Hollywood. For example: 2000’s all about remakes and sequels of older films. It showed an interest and as such bigger studios began adopting that model. 2010’s more indie and “elevated horror” projects focusing on trauma and mental illness, wouldn’t ya know that became a big trend in Hollywood afterwards and a bunch of Disney films and other animated ones started following suit. It’s not a 1:1 comparison but often times you’ll see the trend in horror just due to how low risk / high reward the genre can be. It’s a lot easier to experiment with a genre that audiences care about lot less about quality in as compared to blockbusters and such.
Hollywood was better when we had CRT TVs and PlasmaTVs I think SmartTVs are basically a form of spyware with injected ads that LITERALLY spy on you I miss being a kid flipping through channels just to watch something being old sucks man.
Established franchises are "safe" from an investment and public trading standpoint. One could easily argue that good things will come from low budget and experimentation, but the extreme budgets of the film serve to incentivize massive hype trains prior to release night
"Why make new thing when old thing make money?" Is the thought process I hate. I feel it's about a race of wealth accumulation and profit margins. Art under the stress of capital becomes sterile and awful- oh wait the entire video is about that
This right here... So much for all the "the future looks bright" rhetoric we all bull-shat ourselves into believing. Worst part is even boring, soulless, self-loathing personalities are becoming the only acceptable norm! See if I'm wrong, as time goes on... Express a controversial opinion, show bravery or any salience of being a free thinking individual, and see just how fast you're shunned. We must continue the good fight. Not as in a religious or political thing, or any bullshit like that. But the fight for the human SOUL.
@@Plagueis_The_Wise I couldn't put my finger on it, find the words for it, but I think you spoke it better than I ever could, and I *t h a n k* you so much- I'm happy I'm not alone in these feelings, I'm glad it isn't just me.
Read up on the history of the Internet from the 70s to the 2000s. Essentially the other was originally created by a bunch of socially awkward nerds that wanted to give the Internet away for free. That it's a public service. That changed with AOL. It was the beginning of the end. That was 30 years ago. Look at this now. It's AOL times million
The fact that the world seems so bland and sad nowadays proves that a certain amount of inefficiency is totally necessary for the human condition. That extra pack of cool graphics, creative and crazy websites, colorful paint finishes on buildings, extra quality ingredients on food and intriguing designs and bold features on businesses that in in this day and age are considered "wasteful", made all the difference in the world back then, because we are not machines, but emotional beings.
As a 90s kid one thing I miss the most is being able to edit your social media page's background, add widgets, multicolored status/names.....youtube's old user page felt much more PERSONAL, minimalism is killing OUR CREATIVITY. It genuinely infuriates me.
I'm much older than the target audience for this video. I was born in 1965. During my childhood the year 2000 represented some sort of fantastical future that would revolve around space travel, robotics, increased affluence and leisure etc. Imagine how disappointing the 21st century has been for those of us who were born in the 1960's. We were the 'children of the revolution', born into a more Conservative era, but one that was becoming more and more permissive. During our formative years, in the 1980's, hairstyles and clothes were often wild and exotic. From the 1960's to 1980's youth led the way and youth cultures proliferated. This has all changed. Youth no longer leads the way and no visible youth cultures seem to exist any more. Clothing and hairstyles are no longer wild, exotic or innovative, as they once were. Every one seems to dress so shabbily now. The aesthetics of everything are so bland - from clothing styles, cosmetics and hair to new architecture and consumer products. Everything now is spiritless.
Even game shows like Press Your Luck and the Price is Right were entertaining. From the game show hosts even to some of the guests. 1980’s game shows had an atmosphere and charm that don’t exist anymore.
I was born in 1998, my mother 1975, im so glad that I was raised by her doing what she loved and grew up doing, it made me develop a love for the 80s and 90s culture and movies because that's what she grew up with, I almost feel like in a way even though I'm technically a Gen Z that I am more millennial than anything, the world just doesn't seem to have the personality or character or hell even motivation for things like there used to be
Sometimes I feel like I’m being gaslit man. I look around and damn near EVERYTHING has gone down in quality. Books, art, tv series, movies, architecture, the internet, food… It’s like the world is turning into one big factory complex
Was just mentioning to a friend earlier about how everything feels weird, dystopian, and stale lately, and how much i yearn for a life outside mainstream civilization because of it. I think society is effectively dry-rotting and entering its forever-ugly phase
Truth told in movie, 'The Worlds End'. Man said in the movie, "They're Star Bucking us man". Meaning, taking all the soul out of everything and giving us soulless, copy and paste everything. We will create beauty again and not this gray spell (soulless spell). peace love light
@@VinnyUnion What a stupid statement, completely devoid of any real meaning or nuance. If you'd said Corporatism/Cronyism then I would agree 100%. But Capitalism, as a whole, isn't inherently bad if you take away the Corporate aspects to it and focus more on Free Market. In fact it's the only system that works compared to the likes of Communism or Socialism. If you can come up with a system better than Capitalism (that genuinely works) then let me know because I'd be very interested in hearing about it. Capitalism is far from perfect but it's the best we've got for now, it's just unfortunate that Corporatism from human greed ruins it.
when the silicon valley companies started buying up everything that was popular, stripped it of it's personality and prioritized monetization in every way possible.
Yeah greed has destroyed so many good things. Music, video games, movies, TV shows. Writing. It's now all low quality things meant to sell to the majority people for the sake of mindless profit
The internet in the 2000's wasn't every website trying to be a subscription service. Facebook bought Instagram, which used to be a neat photography sharing app, into a booty twerking, attention seeking and marketing app. Miss just doing shit for fun instead doing shit for likes and clicks. Internet really just became shit when people started getting paid/famous for likes and views.
@@Superabound2 You have no idea do you? Or you are just in a particular part of the internet that was dominated by man and woman took it into their own hands. Time passed on, not woman are the fault but all of us in a way.
11:24 The majority of shopping centers now have building codes. Buildings are not allowed to stand out as they once did. As for the insides not being "cozy," that is a deliberate choice to maximize profit. McDonald's makes no revenue off of your comfort inside during or after eating. They already have your money. Now they want you gone. Because your presence could deter other customers, for fear of being too crowded.
The destruction of unique buildings drives me up the wall. Every town in the nation used to have its own culture. Their own unique THINGS. Now it's all the same. Bland, even tourist towns are just the same shit rehashed. Just all designed to make money, not designed for the people who live and work in these places.
@@bry10101Exactly. Another problem is the old people have all passed on. Who replaced them? Entitled Millennials and Gen Z who don’t care that are contributing to this decline. In the 80’s and 90’s my small town had a bunch of older people. Guys in their 70s and 80s who experienced the depression all the way up to the events of the 1960’s. It was fun listening to their stories because they were unique and society back then was not glued to screens or reading the same scripts. Now people are NPCs who cannot take opposing viewpoints, creating this divide that simply didn’t exist back in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s awful.
Definitely, like I would spend hours going through tons of websites finding all kinds of stuff I like, now, Google only gives you a few results on the first page then spam for the rest, and it doesn't even have more than 2 pages of search results. It's intentional I feel.
@@robertharper3114 Internet was great before it was opened for the mainstream, now it's like a huge shopping mile. "This is not your cozy pub anymore."
This is what got me to go outside more. Most things online seem so bland and fake now. I don't know how to describe it. It made me realize how much of a waste of time it is.
Yeah, in the past I played video games and surfed a lot, nowadays I go outside, visiting real geese (wild and domesticated once) and got pure happiness feelings there, with nature and animals!
@@BradleytheDavis It really does seem to be getting more true by the day. Eventually youtube videos won't even need real people. AI will be good enough to replace real people in videos.
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The 80s and 90s were awesome. I wouldn't want to grow up in the present time since the turn of the century. I feel bad for my nieces and nephews. It seems so stressful and not easy to navigate. Everything moves really fast now. I also realize that people have been saying, "Things were better in my day" since time immemorial. I think there's plenty of examples to support that statement, but I try to keep an open mind and not get too outwardly negative about it. I don't know, though. Only time will tell if it's as dark of a future as I suspect that people are in for.
@@CoralCopperHead I can appreciate that it could possibly be nostalgia. I just don't think that it is. I think that there's a couple of fundamental changes that can be objectively observed. One is the nature of technology and its omnipresence in today's society. The second is a total paradigm shift in post 9/11 America. I think that both have eroded privacy and freedom. It's created an environment where everything is recorded, nothing is forgotten. The things you do and say will follow you essentially forever. Humans make mistakes and it makes it difficult to just be a human. As I stated previously, I totally understand that every generation has thought that things were 'better' in their day. I also understand that somethings are notably better now, it's not all downside. But I just feel that it's currently an overall worse time to grow up than 40yrs ago.
I was a web designer in late 90's early 2000s, I was a flash expert building websites like a mini game, opening doors and traveling inside the content. With the introduction of the iPhone everyone was now looking at the web in a strange tight vertical format and no longer landscape as you would see on large monitors. Flash was soon canceled and websites no longer were permitted to have sound. It essentially killed all creativity and now websites all look the same and are no longer fun.
A politician that shows you exactly what they are-naked avarice-is preferable to a pharasaic "world saving" politician who pretends to a higher purpose while persuing power. Vote Donald Trump and Make America Great Again
@@sarov7658 Have you not been paying attention to what the Republican Party has become? They want America to become a Christian nationalist nation, and their frontrunner is a convicted felon who partied with a child sex trafficker for 15 years.
I’ve been on steam for an ungodly amount of time, and it’s honestly a complete inverse of all of this. It used to be boxy and green, then over time has switched to more gradient colors. Your profiles used to be pretty bare bones when they allowed it, and have slowly morphed into the customization we have today, with the showcases, and the backgrounds, and avatar banners, mini profiles. Honestly valve is killing it.
I disagree. Steam offers the same customisation as Discord, and that's a desperate grasp at the customisation you used to get. In order to customise a page, you must buy games and buy pre-existing wallpapers over submitting your own. Valve holds the keys, they just give you a bigger pen.
It’s not just childhood nostalgia it’s so lame now like where the buffets? Where the sit down pizza huts with salad bar ? Where the color ? Film is far superior to digital
buffets are cheaper for restaurants to operate foodwise, but require more employees after a bunch of people lost their jobs in 2008, businesses are seeking ways to reduce the number of employees, even if it increases the strain on the employees remaining
You absolutely nailed it. Despite having my full time career dependent on this website, I find myself spending less time than ever on it. Everything feels "solved" and not in a good way; where most of what you see blends into each other and just runs down checklists of what's been proven to work. The fact I can guess exactly how most videos I'm recommended are paced, written, and even the exact punchlines to their jokes makes searching for quality an ever increasingly arduous task. Hell even most of the comments are the same recycled jokes that require no context from the video whatsoever.
the way you put it it reminds me of games. when a new game comes out, everyone learns, everything goes, everything gets tried out. a few months in and some people did the math, by that point, a meta develops because the game became a science as was reduced to math and if you dont use what the math says is best, youre at a disadvantage
Culture is being eroded. There used to be pop culture in tv, music, and movies everyone pretty much shared. Today we don’t share any of it and everything feels forced onto us.
This was what 90's television was about. Kids in highschool would talk about what Will did to Uncle Phil in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. They all watched the episode, then the next afternoon while they were at lunch in school they would discuss what was funny about it. We don't share that anymore.
Funny how "culture is being eroded" is preached every other decade, but the ones preaching it always think everything was fine when the prior generation was the one doing it.
I grew up in the 90s, you aren't just imagining things. For me 2012 was the time I started questioning whether I was still in the same reality I grew up in.
I feel like they said the world was going to end in 2012 and everyone lost their mind over Aztec calendars and when it didn’t… I think 2015 was when the fallout and burnout of repeatedly doomscrolling life fell in on itself and gamergate started the trend of outrage opinions became the norm, and censorship became commonplace. We’re almost at the 10 year anniversary of the death of the internet. I go outside more now.
@@Skumtomten1 I’m a 95er too, I think 2007 was a big shift. Most of the Cartoons we grew up with were all canceled by 2007. Most music, movies, and TV shows post 2007 just are so bland and soulless.
Im a house painter. 2001-2007 people had faux finishes, murals painted. After 2008 everyone has beige or gray, just in case they have to sell. After the market crash every thing is about what would someone else want so i wouldnt have to repaint if selling and devoid of art, color and beauty.
I wore mostly beige in the '80s too and our house was quite depressing with those dark muddy browns. It wasn't the superficial what made those years great. There wasn't an outrage culture, yet there weren't so many different perspectives either. People could reach an agreement and could work towards a common goal. That's what is missing now.
@@sage_silvestris That is the worst I see nowadays. No unity at all and it's world-wide. People is bold, too sarcastic. I do not know, I grew up in the 90s and world completely changed to this weird situation in just 20 years. What is the future? Ice-cold people all around the place? Maybe we are already there.
If you talk with common man and woman most are the same as you, level headed and know the powers to be sow division. A lot of the propaganda only works on the weak minded and they believe the majority are this way and they are not.
I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where they all conform with the colorless clothes on and when it rains the dye runs rainbow color and they get their independent individualism back. Brutalist architecture, modern art are all ways to imprison the mind and culture, holding us back from advancement and beauty.
The sad thing is that today, everything is now owned by just two or maybe three people who don't understand a thing other than "how can i suck and kill the soul out of this thing for money" that's what's happening now.
This perfectly encapsulates what i have been feeling lately. I’m too young to remember myspace, but I still get the vibe that things have changed. The internet feels so fake. It’s like a wasteland, it’s all about engagement and money. It doesn’t feel like anyone does anything for fun anymore. Everything is as neutral and censored as possible, to appeal to the largest audience possible. It creates such a disillusioned feeling. The shot of the plant at the end honestly stopped me from spiraling, so thanks for that.
Add AI slop to that - derivative generation of other people's art into plastic slop is a perfect addition to the blandness of this late stage capitalism
As a GenXer, a 70s kid who went to high school and college in the 80s, I feel this very acutely. The world of today is incredibly bland compared to how I envisioned it as a youngster.
They already did that and its why the Internet is so bland. Almost every big website is squarespace or other ready madetemplates. You dont need to even understand how to write a Hello World file to use it.
@@Future_Max Yeah, some people just chalk it up to nostalgia but it's clearly not. the 90's-00's were truly a golden era for free expression and innovation unlike any in history or likely in the future. Now it's been taken over. I can't even respond to you in the way I want to because my comment might be removed!
I remember seeing a meme a while back that basically talked about how the internet used to be a dedicated thing you had to go to. You had to go to a specific room in your house that had a computer. Or you had to go to a library or a web cafe. You couldn't wait to get home from work or school to be able to spend some time on the internet. Now we are all constantly connected to high speed internet through a small brick in our pocket. Our TVs are always connected to it. It is very rare that you are ever not connected to the internet. Using the internet is no longer a fun little event that you get to enjoy. I can remember when using any form of social networking was an exciting thing. Now it's just all exhausting and annoying. I know I definitely don't get the dopamine hit from the internet that I used to.
That's because the plan is to use it for so much more and it is much more they can use it to transfer energy through signals through a central power grid like we see on star trek, we're already seeing the beginning of mainframes like how they're connecting all the airports to the same mainframe that needs up to 5 backup systems. Which is why that crash we heard about just happened, they had no backups but it's quite experimental right now so i guess they wanted to see what would happened. Nikola Tesla is the one who figured out energy can be transferred using wireless signals and now we've got the technology scientists have figured it out which is how you can charge your phone on a charging dock, that's near energy transfer but the hard part is far energy transfer. We already see now NASA and other science agencies use signals to send to whatever they have in space, well that will get a trillion times faster and internet signals do and already internet could have a max speed of 406 terabytes per second, and that tops the previous records of 301 and 319 tbps like can you imagine how fast that would be and what we could do with that? amplifies have been invented to use the already existing fiber optic lines. After 2030 it's going to be used to integrate the world fully into controlling artificial intelligence they intend to control robots to do the more tedious work tasks and so much more in the future, they've already invented cars that will communicate with everything and everyone around it including vulnerable pedestrians but probably to everyone so we know when cars are approaching or coming around a corner. When they said we aren't going back to normal governments meant it because the world we knew is morphing into a different one fully integrated with AI and the internet. What we must do is think about the conveniences we don't really need and what we really need to use when we need to and everyone has to start really caring about their safety when it comes to privacy especially not saying all kinds of things about themselves online and being anonymous because technology is going to get a whole lot more complicated with more responsibilities. So everything connected to the internet is the new normal now no going back eventually we need to evolve if you can call it that, but you have to think about how you yourself use it and how far you want to get involved and personally even if virtual reality becomes big i'm not going to be using it i'll wait for holodecks lol.
@Rockerlady Outlook is great you only need the one then because you can use aliases and then get rid of them once they start receiving too much spam. You can use one of them to login too so you aren't using your real email. Wherever we use our email it's going to end up floating around. However if you use any sites that don't accept aliases you'll want a second email to use it for that.
Like two years ago I watched an extremely specific meme that implied that those born in the mid to late 90s were born just in time to see the last trends characterized by an optimistic aesthetic, in everything, fashion, hardware design, music, software and hope for an awesome unimaginable future that seemingly was actually materializing. As months pass by I cannot help but think of how i grew in the very early 2000s and saw that world vanish right in front of me. Damn, nostalgia and yearning for the past are definitory traits of people under 40, I think.
I feel like the world a lot of us were born in died in 2001. 9/11 destroyed a lot of things. It killed the era of optimism and ushered in an era of terror, self-loathing, and apathy.
@@chrismedina54 Yeah, I agree to a certain point. The grim attitude towards the 21st century post 9/11 was greatly felt outside the US. However other factors, I believe, include: Dissapointment in neoliberal democracies, economical crises that led to 2008 depression and its long lasting effects, war on terror as an excuse to impose over the world, consolidation of technocrats and the reign of technogical industries, internet (formerly a true free and infinite place) turned to a mere mean of disinformation, celebrity obsession and propaganda, industries taken from the hands of creatives by corporates and excutives, among many others. Hell, no wonder why people yearn for the past so much, all this shit in less than a quarter of a century.
@@JuanRodriguez-qw1vr celebrity obsession is one that REALLY annoys me, it's so much worse when the celebrity that someone is convulsing over has no skillset or talent or even remotely the same interests. People literally gushing over a lower-than-baselevel human just because someone else on the screen (possibly even AI) told them to. If it weren't for the stranglehold of corpos and Hollywood then I'm pretty sure this would have been legally deemed a mental illness
It's so true. There was a cozy af coffee shop by my own house that was a loft design, full of warm earth-tones with exposed red brick and richly-stained wood. When it was snowing outside the tall windows, it was so lovely especially at night. One day they decided to make it more like their 'head office downtown'. The walls? Painted white. The warm exposed wood and brick? Painted white. Toss in some cheap plastic plant pots. All semblance of comfort was sterilized and it felt more like a hospital cafe. I *loved* going there but after that did not return. There was also a pub nearby. It was full of library walls, cool statues, low easy lighting, and so many little cozy nooks to have your meal in. They renovated it into a big, open, bare, rectangular box that echoed so much it induced anxiety. Truly we are sterilizing the comfort and uniqueness out of our world.
Back in the 90s and 2000s there was a certain optimism and excitement in design. We had an optimistic view of the future so everything was dreamlike and enigmatic in design. Businesses and branding were bright, colorful, and eyecatching. Now... it's like we've settled for utilitarian. Cold and realist. We don't care about feeling optimistic or excited, it's just "here you go. Eat your burger and get out" There's nothing exciting about it. "This is a restaurant. We have food. You want fun go to a fun place. We don't sell fun."
“I can’t pin point when this change happened.” 2009-2010. It felt like the party was over and everyone was going home. You saw less of extreme fashion genres, things got lazy, everything was going through renovations. The songs on the radio were slowly starting to lose the melodic feeling of “effort” in the years prior. It started sounding the same and all having the familiar “let’s party” beat, but at the same time feeling completely lifeless like it was losing the soul and momentum.
@@Future_Max ughhh I know it’s so disappointing! When I was younger I expected nightclubs to essentially be the equivalent of making friends on the playground but for adults. Instead it’s mostly just full of those who peaked in high school, validation seekers/ a sea of insecurity and the need to abuse substances in order to have a good time. Which is honestly a really unfortunate culture. I don’t blame buildings with lights and music meant for socializing I blame the types of people they attract.
Idk, I felt like there was still a glimmer of that early Internet charm in the early 10s, but maybe that's just nostalgia. Nyan Cat wouldn't have felt out of place in 2005 yet it's from 2011.
My son and I have a theory on the bland cube shape fast food restaurants. If they have no unique shape or features, they can easily be turned into a different bland restaurant if they fail and are sold.
That's the reason plus you get the same thing with high rises. Skyscrapers used to be unique and had character. Now they are all glass rectangles easier to repackage plus the floor plan and space can stay the same bottom to top.
It’s the billion dollar corporations that are building bland restaurants, unlike small restaurants that are usually quite unique. Don’t give these mega corps the benefit of the doubt.
Everything started getting bland in 2017. I remember because I worked for a local TV station at the time and our new graphics package felt like a downgrade from the previous one. Less 3D objects and cool transitions. By 2020 they downgraded to completely flat 2D graphics with zero 3D animations. It was so bad our weather guy complained about how bad the 5 day forecast graphics looked but it was set in stone. We already bought what we got and was stuck with it.
So…your weather channel caused everything to get bland? Y’all can we please use critical thinking? I hate when people can’t see past their own anecdotal experience and get so stuck in a narrative that they tell themselves enough to believe.
@@loadishstone so are you being dense on purpose or are you seriously missing the fact that this person is sharing their experience as a related anecdote and not that it was the cause of the downfall of graphic design
i feel this way specifically with roblox more than anything else. i joined roblox back when it looked colorful and fun like a KIDS website is supposed to be. now? its the same gray, neutral template that every other website is and its sad. i guess the site is trying to appeal to everyone now and not just kids, but that's no excuse to suddenly just not have a soul anymore.
@@snoot6629 70s common man interior design, with wood paneling, stained glass pendant lights, yellows, greens, browns, oranges for paint/appliance/furniture colors, insane wallpapers, shag carpeting (often in scarlet red or forest green), everything was so unbelievably fugly but I love it so much, so colorful and warm, so unlike what we have today.
@@abaddon2148 Yeah, even though I don't like it, I can see why some people see a charm in 70's style - it still had some soul. But now you can only compare things to Soviet Russia's Combloc - as simple and plain as possible to minimize expenses and offenses (and to maximize profits for higher ups).
Growing up, the internet was something you used for fun. We used it to escape reality. We used search engines to find communities of similar interests. Forums/BBS ruled. Games used to have server browsers and servers would have their own micro communities with forums and websites. Then the Internet started to become ingrained in every aspect of our life. We live on the internet now. It’s attached to all of our devices. Forums are dead, replaced by social media and Discord groups. Game developers replaced server browsers with match matching. Now I escape the internet by experiencing reality.
Forums are not dead. They just don't attract people who are new to the Internet because they are so computer-illiterate they live in their tiny smartphone cloud tailored by few applications they use. Their experience of Internet is isolated and miniscule and, because of the algorithms that feed off such demise, these people can't get out. They don't know there's something more out there. Forums still attract many people, especially niche forums. And they're wonderful places that lack the bottom of the barrel that has their heads stuck in their smartphones.
I loved forums where you created your own profile/avatar and actually were anonymous. I loved discussing strategies and other stuff with people that shared the same passion for games or other hobbies on these forums. Sure you had trolls, but they were entertaining. Back then games were amazing as well. Most countries also had their own Facebook which created close communities within that space. Everything changed quickly when Facebook became popular and the smartphone. All the sudden people started to share their lives on the Internet, and being anonymous was no longer a thing. Everyone flocked to Facebook and eventually the Internet became fully integrated into most people's every day life, whetever they wanted it or not. I don't really have a passion for anything anymore. Everything I used to love feels lame and dull now. Though I still miss these forums for sure.
As an 80's/90's kid, everything back then was always so over the top, on purpose. Everything was "extreme!" It was sometimes ridiculous, but gave everything so much character that is just absent today.
Despite being born in the early 2000s, these days I feel a bit out-of-touch with how fast the world seems to be moving, especially with how "artificial" everything feels At the very least, it's a bit comforting to know that others are growing aware of this too Edit: oh god don't even get me STARTED on wanting to go outside for some "fresh air" only to see the same monotonous, exploitative shit everywhere
Also from 2000-ish. But where I grew up, we were like 10 years behind the US and other countries in everything tech and entertainment related. Around 2012, we started to catch up to globalization and made a jump back to the present. Everything went to shit faster than I could keep track. I felt so out of touch with my own generation when the change happened.
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters That's interesting because I've watched some videos of Taiwan and Philippines and in a way, they kind of seem like they are currently in the 90's era of the USA with a sense of optimism and innovation and fun vibes to attract customers and kids, maybe because not everyone can afford all the latest high-tech stuff and they still have a sense of community and go outside. But nobody can completely escape the negative influences of the USA/Western world now.
Born in ‘88. I went to the mall recently and felt like I was transported to 2000. I saw a couple of goths. A mental guy wearing weird clothes and Crocs with Thomas The Train toys attached to them. A guy with a bleached blonde shaved head, dog collar and Blink 182 shirt (2003 album cover) laughing at the Thomas The Train guy, and much more. Great people watching. It was a nice escape from reality back to my nostalgic youth.
It's funny that you noticed fast food restaurants trying to move you on - their designs are explicitly with the point of reducing how long you stay in the building, so they can move through more customers. I studied this in University in the 2010s.
You already covered this but something that I hate so much is that the social media pages are less customizable, you used to be able to change the color of most things, play with the text, add backgrounds, there were no character limits, but now the most personalization you get is a profile photo and a banner
Life is really starting to feel meaningless again. I see ads everywhere I go. I'm sick of corporate and government greed. I just want the early 2000s again
To be fair, the ads used to be everywhere too. It's just that they weren't as in your face or bland. It's odd to say that ads used to actually be kind of nice
Corporate greed existed in 2000 the difference was we didn't have smart phones. We could disconnect from corporate noise easier. We are also more innocent
Reject bland corporate products, Embrace passionate Indie projects. (On a serious note, the reason things are so bland is that each decade has had its own "comfort style", and with the modern decade the style is Minimalism and sequal-bait)
Minimalism is a hipster style of art designed to take the least amount of time to create. Minimalism used to be old clipart packages you inserted into Word projects. What a rotten, regressing world we live in.
@@scrittle Just like hipsters, it was first a counter to "complex for the sake of complexity" art, now it's become what hipsters are now, a staple of bland corporate designs.
Sadly, the indie scene are being cropped up by the same drivel that got us here in the first place. Indies need to do a lot more and give us amazing stories. Any others who do less than that should be rejected.
I know a few people who are writers. Hollywood didnt run out of ideas. Hollywood plays it so safe that they reject new ideas because they stick with what will make them money.
None of that is new. What is new that previous generations didn’t experience is letting woke people run the studios and then use ESG money to make awful films promoting leftist propaganda.
Exactly. It what the c-suite and board thinks will make the most money. There's plenty of cool concepts out there - just look at indie moves (if you can still find them.)
@@UD503J You have to know those indie films. Hollywood produces pure junk. Top Gun Maverick was the only film I enjoyed from them these past few years.
for me, an 80s kid coming of age in the late 90s early 00s, the event that turned the world gray was 9/11. Things seemed like they were getting back on track just about the time Covid happened and fucked the economy to kingdom come. I went from having a decent job to barely surviving over the span of the last 3 years, and i still work the same job. the cost of living just skyrocketed all the sudden because of greedy rich corporations that need to be eaten.
Everything stopped feeling real and like a simulation the more we attached ourselves to the Internet. It's messing with our psychology. We are the first generations ever to experience this shift, and its crazy to think how i grew up during this transformation as a child. I think it's more dangerous than we realized, especially when young. Now kids are growing up on tik tok and their dreams are to be influencers. Everything is so different.
Tiktok is one of the few times im proud to have an old man mentality. Being trained to expect a full video to be 1 minute long most destroy gen z, but they feel like a movie lasts an eternity.
@@Queerlien I dunno how old your are but I agree. The more we attach ourselves to the Internet and related technologies, the less happy we've all seemed to become. That very fact is starting to become clear to more and more people, and I hope that continues. I hope one day not too far in the future, most of us will collectively agree that this shit mostly sucks and we will drastically cut back on large parts of it. Maybe we'll even look at it as an actual mental health hazard. I can only hope.
I agree. I’m similar, I was a kid in the 90s and teen with internet and it seemed all fun and games then but now my own kids are drowning in the ridiculous content being forced down their throats and I worry constantly about whether they’re having too much internet access.
@@faesdays yeah, totally. I worry that *all* of us spend too much time spent on our the internet and our devices, but like I worry about kids. I especially worry for kids, teens and some young adults because pretty much all of them have never known any other world.
The world has become universal, sterile, cold, uniform, and modular to be made and sent everywhere and anywhere. Nothing is unique, everything wants to be like the rest, they all follow and no one leads, no risks, everything must be alike and normal, nothing can stand out or break the uniformity.
Well said. And the algorithm will make sure that anything and everything that deviates from that will be buried so deep that nobody will ever unearth it.
when you think about it, society isn't as social as it used to be, I don't really see that many people eating inside a mcdonalds or burger king anymore, cause it's not inviting. Your either ordering it online for delivery or you're using the drive thru. the only time I order inside is when I'm with friends, but we leave anyway when we get our orders.
Bro I'm 30 now and man man man it was a time to be alive early 2000s with how new and creative a lot of different things were. Today its like nothing even comes close.
Same age here. the 2000s *_SUCKED._* Fighting my way home every day after school because I had the gall to play videogames or read books without having them assigned to me by a class was _not_ a good time. If you disagree, you were either supremely lucky or part of the problem.
I feel like we’re living in a corporate dystopia where everything is just a cash grab, no matter how they put it or how much they say it’s to help you. Edit: What really bothers me is you can’t trust ANY of the companies you used to. AT&T is a scam, Verizon is a scam, any service or product you’re buying is a scam because you’re not truly getting what you paid for. Video games suck, all the new big titles are boring and lack soul and passion. Music also lacks passion.
Late stage capitalism is truly dystopic. I wonder if 100 years from now America will be looked at as the bizzaro Soviet Union. Communism taken to its extreme vs capitalism taken to its extreme. It’s ugly either way
I agree with you completely. In any business, the name of the game is to get you to take money out of your account and give it to them voluntarily. While the concept seems simple, the strategy to make it happen becomes more complexed. Take your supermarket, for example. Some supermarket companies will go as far as having hidden scent machines, so whatever aisle/section you are in, for example, the produce section=fresh oranges, cleaning aisle=lemons, deli=rotisserie chicken or cereal=grains. Now, there is talk of Walmart going digital prices tagging so the price can fluxuate depending on demand within a moment. Checkout bottled drinks can go up when it gets hot and down in the cooler hours.
When i was little, the internet was a place to escape to, a never ending digital world. Now at 23, its a cage, and the escape is back to the beauty of the natural world. Edit: lmao the amount of people trying to out-old me and each other, it's not a race and there's no prize guys
@Trentcast I feel like that just makes the whole thing worse lol, that I can be relatively young and still the world feels like it's compressing and rotting at a pace so fast it makes me feel older
At 23 lmao!? I'm 35 and remember the early internet days of the late 90's/early 00's when it really was fun. Dial up internet and Napster was where it was at haha. You probably don't even remember a time without UA-cam, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok.
I'm a bit older than you (29), and I feel the same way. I appreciate the way you put it. This happened quite fast. It's interesting someone as young as 23 feels the impact. Glad you understand that the escape from this is in the beautiful real world with real people. I run into many people 20 or so that get trapped like a hamster in the doomscrolling wheel.
I miss being able to use the internet with only 2-3 small ads in the sidenofnthe page. I hate it so much when they put ads that intentionally have the same design as the site's usual content
@@WilcoxNotreallythereLate 80s baby, but yup I agree. My values, skills, and upbringing were made for a world in the 90s. I fucking hate what humanity/society has turned into
@@WilcoxNotreallythere Yes, same - the real pivotal moment was the internet and then smartphones. Things extremely foreign to human evolution for half a million years of vastly in-person social connection among a social species, it's no surprise there's a lot of new struggle with these technologies. Perhaps tribal most of those years, perhaps still so, but certainly not primarily in a digital space.
@@Prawnsacrifice I'm sure - another massive pre-early-digital perspective difference that's more experientially revealed than put into crystaled textbook comparison among history books. A broad perspective difference on life itself.
@@Zenith6000 uh humans? before 2016 i didnt think a lot about how people are and stuff. But recently i realized that everyone is anyoing. Everyone is self centered. Everyone looks down on the others. Everyone believes they are on a moral high ground. And the only thing people are interested in is reproduction, conflict, food. They all preach how superior we are to animals but all we do is repeat the same patterns over and over again. Still even the intelligent people i meet dont seem to realize that we are stuck in this endless cycle. People are afraid to make a change. In my country people think politics is important, yet not a single person tries to make a change. No one has any opinions whatsoever, they are mindless and they recreate what the internet feeds into them. No one tries to have their own oppinions and if you try to be unique then you are the enemy. No critical thinking, no rationallity. All there is is subjective instinct based emotionally unstable monkeys going around and larping as humans Back in the day i used to be able to enjoy things without seeing what is behind them. I was either able to close my eyes or there was nothing else to see
I remember when there was so much variety to the algorithms, no matter what you watched. Now I just keep getting the same types of videos over and over again with nothing new unless I search for it or make a new account that will eventually be rotated with the same things again. I feel like I’ve watched the same things over and over again even if they’re different videos on different channels.
@@crypticshadows i live here and theres places with signs that even say 10mins. theres so many people here on this small island that people gotta rush. really not the paradise people try and say it is tbh
That sounds like it would be the case but I don't believe it. After all, you wouldn't deliberately tank the atmosphere of your own restaurant. A decision which will reflect in the overall reputation of the chain, which is why I'm convinced this design is purely a continuation of the "minimalism" style that's been floating around every aspect of our lives the past decade.
Only 1 min and 11 seconds in. The thing that changed everything and made everything trash was 2008.That recession caused all adults to make only make decisions that resulted in money. That includes everything from tv programming to how the internet was used. Your welcome.
@@80hd80hd The contents of the main character's pants are irrelevant unless you've somehow convinced yourself that you're going to get into them at some point. Is that of particular concern to you regarding fictional people?
Same thing with the Pokemon games lol. Back then the Pokemon sprites are vividly colorful, but after the transition to 3D the colors are now washed-up dull. Even their "improved" cries were now garbled mess. And I guess I could say the same in movies, cartoons, etc.
It’s definitely not childhood nostalgia. People of all ages, teens to 60s years old, all say the same thing. Around 2015-2017…something changed. Movies, video games, social media…it all feels so lifeless now.
I can confirm. I’m definitely one of the younger people advocating for change and haven’t really seen a lot of change from the late 90s to mid 2000s firsthand, but there is just something so.. genuine about it compared to today.
In 2014 (look up what happened in Ukraine that year), the USA and Western European governments decided that they will control all narratives, citizens be damned. NATO said future wars will be won via tweets. Google, Twitter, Facebook all are compromised by alphabet agencies. So yes, all generations see the same time-line changes.
It's worth noting that the Y2K era (and till late 00s) was a one of a kind where everything was 'cool'. Everything's bland now, but it was also relatively bland before that time. Think of the 1970s for example.
Not only are the most popular websites becoming boring and sanitized, but they are also becoming increasingly restrictive. You used to be able to say whatever you wanted on UA-cam, as long as you did not threaten anyone or post anything hateful or pornographic. Now you can't even criticize people (especially famous people) without getting your comment erased 15 seconds after you posted it.
That's probably not why the comment was deleted. UA-cam has a stupid comment auto moderation that deletes comments for the stupidest of things and some words will get your comment deleted. Also links or mentioning your own channel.
What's truly depressing is that generations before ours (I was born in '93) are nostalgic of a childood spent outside, playing freely with friends in uncontrolled environments. Our generation is mostly nostalgic of video games, tv shows and internet aesthetics that remind them of when they were little.
As a Gen-Z myself, I often feel disgusted at others I see on the internet who seem to purely get their nostalgia from a computer. I used to think that way too until I had realized just living life is way shorter than it would seem and especially since I'm experiencing a supposedly very memorable time for my life, I want to be in the physical presence of others as much as possible because having a majority of my world be digital feels like a waste of living.
Yes and for our generation it mostly had to do with stranger danger and the way neighborhoods were built in the 80s and 90s. We were dependent on parents to drive us anywhere but the N64/Gamecube/PC was always available at home. I remember wanting to go out and do things with other kids but there were only two kids my age who I could safely bike to. So we would just stay inside playing GTA and Halo.
@@rebelroar78What people are forgetting here is this was also when helicopter parenting was on the rise. Sometime in the 80’s, things like missing children began to pop up on the news. Parenting started to change after that. What was previously allowing kids to roam and bike miles from town was suddenly guardians and some parents constantly watching the kids. Now we have laws that punish the parents if they so much as allow the kids to wander off somewhere.
You can't gatekeep anything on the internet, not even internet itself. First it starts to get popular, then becomes mainstream, then it becomes commercialized heavy and in the end nothing good remains of it.
I remember UA-cam comments and comments/messages on Facebook and you could say literally anything you want. Now even if there's no profanity or politics in your comment, your comment will disappear on UA-cam and you'll get banned for a week on Facebook. There's also double standards on Facebook as well where certain groups can get away with saying anything towards another group
@@finkamain1621 Yeah, it's called 'reality.' Crack open a history book -- hell, even read the headlines -- people attack and censor each-other because they have different imaginary friends (read: gods) or, even worse, one group thinks someone was just a human prophet instead of the son of their imaginary friend. This still happens _today._ Stop acting like meatspace was ever any better than cyberspace, they've both been garbage since the start.
No. Gatekeeping works. That's how u keep the ideology driven sleeper feds from making ur interest all woke. Time to take back our freedom. Fkk "the message"
As a fellow Gen-Xer I agree! I think for me late '80s early '90s was the most promising with technology and the birth of the www was crazy, very colorful, loud and full of promise.
As one of those people I can honestly say it's depressing. Not like the 80s and 90s were the epitome of ideal life but growing older and watching this soulless, corporate Thing encase us in shiny nothingness is depressing. Its heartening to see that younger generations do sense it too though, so maybe there's small hope there.
Yeah I was born in 84. The first almost 20 years of my life were pretty full of wonder and adventure. This second half has been pretty fucking lame. Me and my girlfriend are trying to keep digital devices away from our 4 year old son. I think the digital revolution has a lot to do with our fragmentation and increase in anti social attitudes. And 9/11. Man, life just seemed so full of promise, optimism and hope and watching those towers come down at 17 really did a number on me even as a non American.
Yep. I was born in '80, and we first got access to the 'net in '94. It felt like the future. Adventure around every corner, with hope for the future. Now, it's a bland, soulless, cookie cutter corporate hellscape. This is what we get when every decision is made in committee for the purpose of maximizing revenue.
this video made me miss being a child. I was born in the 2000s and was on roblox at a very young age, as per usual, i lied about my age to get full access to the site with no parental restrictions. I made my roblox account in the year 2011, the UI design was so fun, recminiscent of Facebook in that era, it had games and character customisation, everything about it felt fun, it wasnt for the sake of an advertisement or sponsorship it was just a game with more games inside. urgh. i miss being a child.
Every single car looks the same and I hate it. Just a cookie cutter stamping them all into the same look with even more planned deterioration/obsolescence
Oh man, every rav4, crv, corolla is brutally bland. It is nice though that things like the ineos grenadier or emira exist, but they're never affordable
As a designer I think minimalist approaches come together with a ever-shrinking attention span everyone has. Both software-wise, or with real life products, people nowadays can't handle anything more than a bite-size of information because they consume too much on all fronts and got used to it.
Makes sense. U want something that catches peoples attention, less info is better. The same for transcripts/articles and even videos. People get bored super fast today.
Definitely this. With social media being endless, mindless scrolling these days, most things are gonna be skipped over. So of course companies won't put in the effort. There's no point. Minimalism also saves them money.
no just the internet and only because it was invented recently. all the good stuff he talks about in this video is still either advertising or a product designed purely to make money
@@weirdwalrus5757 Exactly, he even admits that most large media franchises in the 80's were made to be commercialized. I think the biggest change is how people are less willing to buy into that sort of stuff today, likely because we are beginning to realize that companies have more rights than us.
@@TanyaKatherine nah the movies office space and fight club came out in 1999 and what your talking about is their central themes. Near everyone in this comment section are the generation that all the shiny logos and mcdonalds architecture were meant for, children in the 2000s. They are unable to see that these things have moved on without them.
I was born in 2007, so I don't remember much But from what I do remember MAGICAL Flappy bird, good children's tv, my PlayStation 2 We really did have it all Now look at it
I fucking hate minimalism, I hate how corporate and fake and expensive and soulless things have become. I hate how nobody tries to create actual art and be creative, they just jump on whatever drama is trending and make yet another commentary thing, they become "influencers"... things have gotten desperate driving the worst aspects of consumer culture and money-grubbing, corporate greed, and a complete dismissal of creativity, originality or authenticity and I loathe that. Look at McDonalds as a visual representation....
There are, fortunately, still real artists. Real people who have found their craft and are trying passionately to make something beautiful. The problem is that there are less of them, and they get drowned out by the sea of those who fake talent.
It's not minimalism. It's myopic nihilistic capitalism in the name of fiduciary duty to the shareholders, despite the fact that it isn't even optimal for making money long term (Just look at all of the franchises that Disney ran into the ground in the name of short term profits and tell me that was optimal for shareholders or Boeing where designing a replacement for the 737 that could have actually fit the new higher bypass engines would have been less expensive than what happened). The problem is a management class that lacks specific knowledge of the industries that they lead, but are empowered to micromanage the people who do have the knowledge.
and on the flipside, EVERYTHING is for the family. nothing can be too explicit or horrible or morbid anymore, for the sake of brand compatibility with advertisers. adult content is being pushed away from the central internet because it isn't advertisable (i am not counting stuff like hazbin hotel and smiling friends as adult content. those are still cartoons that just say cuss words.) and creativity is suffering due to it. human sexuality is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object in art, and pretty much 90% of 'desire' in modern big media is limited to lingering gazes, and kisses with light music in the background, and then more intense kissing, and then a tasteful camera pan and a cut to both characters lying in bed after. that's it. that's what sexuality is nowadays in media. if you're really crazy, you might see an uncensored breast in a scene where two drugged-up supermodels pretend to want each other. that's IT. we as people need to not shy away from it, 'it', which i am not even calling by name because i'm scared youtube will hide my comment if i do. that's how scared brands are of it nowadays. it's a totally natural part of life that everyone will have to face and struggle with at some point, something so universal and understood by everyone, even if they're repulsed by it. we're just pretending like it doesn't exist because some company somewhere deemed it inappropriate. it's insane when you think about it.
@@capitanice6353 ...Did you just say that Hazbin Hotel _isn't_ adult content, and justify that because it's animated? You might want to watch a little something called _"Urotsukidoji."_ Actually, you might not want to, but I've already said it and the fact that it's not in English means UA-cam won't shadowblock this post, so I'm gonna commit just to prove a point about how stupid YT's shadowblocking is. ...Huh, this went *_way_* off the rails.
@@CoralCopperHead no i did not. i have been an artist who loves cartoons since i was 11 and i respect the art of animation as a medium with my whole heart. i think hazbin isn't really adult content because it's ideas are juvenile, not because it's animated. hazbin says cuss words, and they talk about sex all the time, but so do kids on the playground. are they adults because they do it? no. hazbin's ideas, plots, characters, and character arcs are simple. character designs on the show are complex, not because each piece of them tells a story and how they are as a person, but because it's eye-catching and looks cool. and besides base, base level symbolism (card suit patterns on the gambling character), it's not doing much. an adult show doesn't HAVE to be this super complex, deep, psycho-analytical puzzle to be an adult show, but it has to prove that it has something that kids shows don't, that there is something in the material that people with undeveloped brains either don't grasp yet or aren't allowed to see. for the latter, it's easy to make a show rated R by saying fuck a few times and popping some boobs out, but it's hard to make it something that kids can't really relate to like the former. if you took out the adult bits, the cuss words and the sex jokes and aired it on cartoon network, it'd probably be a smash hit. the show is an adult show but it doesn't DO anything with it that it couldn't do if it had an E or PG13 label. are there any arcs or characters that would need to be cut because they're too complex for kids and tweens, NOT just because they have inappropriate things attached to them (i.e. their design or personality)? angel dust wouldn't be angel dust by name and looks, but his arc of looking good and acting confident while secretly being insecure and lonely would still be intact. (my little pony also did this near exact character arc with diamond tiara in 2015. it wouldn't be groundbreaking) this isn't new, people have always been trying to market cartoons this way, by showing how shocking it can be to see fun bright characters saying crazy things and humping one another. they tend to flop because once that wears off, and it's just the integrity of the show itself carrying the episodes, people start to hate it. think bojack horseman, as a start. why did it succeed and things like 'the prince' fail? anyways, no. i love animation, i respect the hell out of the skill it took to make this show, i even like some of the designs, i just don't like the use of 'adult show' as this weird argument point people use for both the fact that it's both too simple (writing wise) and too complex (visually).
@@tias.6675 Graphic designers have been trained off of by AI and its more profitable for companies to let them all go and just use a sterilized form of their essence through automated generation. This has coincided with the ultraminimalism described in this video. I don't know how this can be described as anything other than late stage capitalism, stripping out the human soul for profit.
I don't know if people are ready to hear an explanation of how the decadence of creativity we once basked in was only ever going to be temporary and that the findings in this video were an inevitability. When you have a society that places the moneymakers at its apex, eventually, the essence of humanity is going to be harvested and physically carved out from that society to maximize profit for the moneymakers.
I’m a Gen z, 24 , and my dad is Gen x, and compared to where I was at my dad’s age, I feel ancient. My dad felt stoked and excited and loved media and didn’t feel “I miss way back in my day when stuff was better” until he was in his EARLY 40s. Now me, at 24, feel like how he felt in his early 40s about the world, but I’m only 24. I’m still “the youth” and yet I am already looking back like “I miss the old days and now the world sucks”. It’s INSANE the way time has changed and it seems like the world ages 3x as fast. Edit: I feel like Gen z was born on the edge of two different worlds, the old world and the new world. We saw the end of the old world in childhood, and crossed over into the new one as late teens.
I’m a millennial, I was born in 1988, I felt the same way by 24. It’s just what it’s like to get older. The novelty of everything wears off a lot quicker than you assume
Yes this. That’s how I’ve been feeling. I think this is what has caused a big part of me as an individual and even as societies for us to navigate life, socializing and community with over the top detachment
What is it with these age ranges? It must be locational or something, where I live, you're not a millennial unless you were born after 2000. As far as I'm concerned Gen Z is still just teens to toddlers. How can my town have fallen so far behind in these age rankings; Gen Alpha hasn't even been born yet by the standards over here, or is it that the big cities have just pushed the dates back causing people who were once considered Gen X to now be millennials?
@@flameofthephoenix8395 no, in the US it’s based on when the baby boom ended after WWII. Boomers end in ‘64, then gen x, then millennials starting in ‘82, then gen z starting in ‘97 (it might be ‘96, I’ve seen both), and idk when they started gen alpha though, sometime in the 2010s. Millennials were called Gen Y when I was growing up then they changed it.
@@ccannon1 Yeah, I know that Millenials are Gen Y, and what you're saying about the boomer and Gen X is right, but the Millennials started in 2000. Of course, they didn't really start in 2000 that's just what we go by over here in my town/city/geographical thing.
31:42 An example of modern blandness not intended by RatPatrick: The widespread use of 'consume' (a broad, clinical term) in place of 'read', 'watch', or 'listen'. Gets my attention every time I hear it and, in recent years, I hear it a lot.
Reminds me of the way everything is a “franchise” or an “IP” now. Like for example, when Horizon: Forbidden West was coming out, I already saw people saying “the Horizon franchise” as if there’s now an expectation that everything has to have merch and a media franchise attached to it.
I balked at the introduction of the term "DLC" then everyone started talking about "assets" I was so excited back then to download a new character downloading "assets" or "content" is bland language for something that should POP
I despise the saying "stay safe" - it became a propaganda phrase, and I don't understand why no one understands that. I didn't hear people saying it much at all until the media started trying to condition people to accept mandates, sense hour ship (which I can't even spell correctly anymore, because you-know-what will happen), and other restrictions on our freedoms. Plus, "stay safe" assumes that the person hearing it is already safe, which is quite an assumption. But mostly it's that an obsession with safety has historically always led to disaster, and it's a very very low aspiration, sort of like saying, "I hope you have a day that isn't completely awful."
It's because of the current social climate and the fact that corporations are terrified of offending anyone because it might hurt their finances. It's far easier and more profitable to just be as bland and non-inflammatory as possible. Also, they probably realized that the less actual foot traffic in the restaurant they have, the more money they save by not needing as many employees. I noticed just the other day that McDonalds here where I live has officially now replaced the cashiers with signs saying to order on the kiosks.
you know this is why i still love the internet, its still a place where i can find videos like this, makes me feel a whole lot better knowing im not the only one thinking and feeling EXACTLY like this! I recently fell down a rabbit hole of watching videos like this and videos appreciating the old web, and it inspired me so much i made my own neocities website and started using my phone purely for anwsering messages, and for real my life is a thousand times better, having your own little corner on the web that you can fully customize feels so exciting, away from all the commercialized and professionalized fake shit everywhere else. Seeing everyones unique style and browsing web rings and reading peoples blogs and galleries feels so much more meaningful and exciting than just endlessly scrolling into the abyss (where specifically on instagram, i shit you not, every third post is a sponsored ad, and every 5th post is from someone you dont even follow and on twitter every post is essentially engagement bait and bots). Returning to personal blogs is one way to make at least one corner of the internet ours again!
It's definitely grounding to know we can be self-aware about the changes happening. Sometimes it's nice to be able to look around and go "You seein' this?" and not just have someone act all gaslighty and say "No, now shut up"
While I do miss the wild west era of the internet what I miss about old websites like youtube and heck even Myspace is that you could customize your profile and on youtube you can make friends there and message them via youtube comments or privately Its how I met some of my closet friends that I'm still friends with decades later God I miss 2000s - early 2010s youtube heck I miss taht era of the internet
I made friends on an online gaming forum in 2009 and some of us still talk to each other to this day. We were basically kids back then. The craziest part is I was a groomsman in one of thems wedding last year.
It's hard to find people like you and connect with, especially if you used the internet and were into niche hobbies and video games, especially so back in pre-modern internet. I sincerely hope young adults and gen z teens these days can find a sense of community and promising friendships.
The old internet helped me get through the toughest times in highschool. Flash games, research journals, entertainment, forums, it was all there. When all of that faded out during my higher education days I lost most of my childhood, the internet became a dull & barren landscape of corpos and grifters wanting to turn a quick buck. All those research journals too faded away. My old textbooks cite to dead links bought by make-up companies or expired outright. Research which proved vital to aspiring students fell in place of centralised forums where a bunch of idiots *or* a bunch of idiots in a news room spread misinformation that turn people against each other. The internet used to be a place where you could query anything and find the answers for it. Now, Google Bard attempts fix an issue they themselves created, except all Bard does is cross wires and makes shit up. When I want to find one thing it takes an hour, when it used to take a few clicks.
Here's a big reason for these issues: a lack of respect for creative and knowledgeable professionals. I went to school for graphic design but turns out, hardly anyone wants real designs nowadays. Businesses go for the cheapest option that looks somewhat professional which would be plain, mostly white, overly simplified and boring. I leaned more on the illustrative, colorful (tastefully) and creative side of design. Problem is, it takes a lot of time to make these but the boring, streamlined, and copy pasted designs take like an hour to make. This has been an issue for all creative jobs. Writing, designing, and even art
And in the past couple years, people are turning to AI for a quick logo because what it vomits out can actually pass for one... As if the arts weren't undervalued enough.
I used to do freelance video work back in the day and this hits the nail right on the head. You can pitch creative ideas to a client all you want, but in the end they always want the same simple and bland presentation that everyone else uses and they will even tell you as much. "Make it look like theirs." I would actually get complaints that videos I edited weren't simple enough. It was very unrewarding work aside from being paid obviously.
yeah and then you have digital music replacing live music making the pay less desirable than it once was for the people working harder than ever in the industry! Then there's the artists who make it big with unique songs and then once they sign with a record label it all becomes generic and "popular" and people say the best music was back then when people felt free to say whatever came to mind, and they're right! The music isn't as genuine anymore because the businesses that control the music aren't genuine just very generic - whatever can make the most money with the least amount of resources...it's sad honestly and overwhelming. We all need a break from the bs that we're fed constantly.
Yeah, definitely an issue in all mediums. I work in games and everytime I hear people complaining about bland predatory AAA games, I point them to plenty of fun, creative, one cost indies. Of course they'll complain about bad graphics or "too expensive" for a $20 game (as they buy $30 skins in Fortnite or whatever) or complain about their backlog (while they go back to GTA shark cards) and so on. Voice actors go on strike over AI and they defend the bots because "voice acting isn't important", while they praise Sony's games for their single player narratives. Actions speak louder than words. There are some that simply can't tell the difference, but other simply want to pretend they support developers.
You said it all in one word: professional. Everyone is so broken, cut off, and scared to feel or display authentic emotions, that they hide behind a mask of professionalism. "I'm not scared to stand out, I'm professional". "I don't have a hard time viewing customers with empathy, I'm professional". "It's not dumbed down, it's not bland, it looks professional".
Opened TikTok, first thing was an ad. Scrolled ten posts, saw SIX ADVERTISEMENTS. thanks for the cold splash of water on my face, Im deleting everything
This video makes me even more depressed. I was a child in the late eighties and into the 90s and seeing how unappealing the world has become is just awful
I’m sure most people are pissed off about this so it’s only a matter of time before people start seriously rebelling against this soul sucking bullshittery
I saw another person comment this already but I just wanted to bring it to your attention: we should go back to smaller communities and blogs on here instead of having these massive sites where everyone meets everyone and not always for the best!
11:55 They literally don't want you in their establishment. Once you pay for your food, your presence is a cost center. Every aspect of the lobby is designed to keep you in there a minimum amount of time so they can make room for the next person, achieving higher guest turnaround in a smaller space. Some McDonald's intentionally tilt their seats forward fifteen degrees because it's very uncomfortable, but not easy to notice, specifically so you won't "get comfortable" and stay in the dining room after you eat.
if theres any positive from things being bland, its that its only a matter of time for new shit to hit the mainstream. People already complain about this so its bound to change
@@eightcoins4401 Yep. It's hard to explain but I really think it's only going to get worse unless the political and economic environments drastically change. As mentioned in the video, corpoes just want to appeal to the widest range of people and they want to minimize costs (maximize profits) so that means simplifying and restricting everything to the minimum and removing the human element.
The hypercommercialization and minimalization of the internet was caused by a tragically very simple thing, really: The corporations that made the internet go 'round realized that there was vastly more money to be made from harnessing and exploiting the users than from competing to make bold new creations. There's no longer a need to make creative, innovative products. The users, viewers, and audiences have BECOME the products.
Corporations DIDNT always. The internet was a post military, prediminatly academic influenced world. Early fb showed this the most. The internet became problem, because we became the problem.
Yeah, unfortunately it's now impossible to fix. Humans are just naturally greedy, and now we're just stuck as we are. Until people understand just how screwed they are and maybe make a stand. But no, that's too optimistic
@@mantha6912 let me say this Thanks 2008 economic crisis wth a writing on the wall warned us all about the direction of the internet for the next generations and decades ...... All thanks to 2008 economic crisis which caused ppl and the industry to care about moneymakers more than their humanitarian morals and also the web had become costly and things need to be watered down in order for the industry to survive financialy , after 2000s the government started to side wth corporations and be confortable wth the internet and the more corporations cared about not financially struggling cuz of the good things the more they relied on greed to become greedy monsters and make everything suck the world always had bad things and problematic but and ditch trying to be secure competing to create new innovative stuffs to can help humanity when u can harness more data and exploit humanity unconsiousness s' negligence at it's finest which is why and how corporate greed returned and explains how the internet got standardized watered down to be soulless and corporate it's bcuz our greed are the problem , a broken system beyond repair , society being wrongly entertained by evil satan , all thanks to 2008 not just the internet but the whole industry , companys, tv programs , reality tv , how we use the web , food , sports , music & movie entertainment industry . Watering down to current bland era 2010 - 2013 The web became more streamlined and centralized Also democratization of mobile devices Rise of social medias Birth of subscription based stuffs 😃 2013 - 2016 From streamlined and abondon y2k style cuz 2008 crisis marked they ppl will no longer be optimistic about the future for things to get the job done and the golden age of graphics & design will soon come to an end and be replaced by flat designs less fleshy but still somewhat eye catching but not the same cuz it's minimalist don't worry it will get worse 2016 onwards 😀😐😬 2016 - 2020 The internet became less and less diverse everything start to be carbon copy of themselves and oh Boy 2016 elections boosted the internet to be more suckier and standardized and 2 more centralized , corporations got bored of the old form of online communication as web forums so they made sure social medias are no longer primitive so there job is to kill oldnet and ruin society enter the new form of online communication replace everything form the 90s and 2000s linkrot , the web started to become ultramoderated and commercialized & centralized = less customization , no swearing , internet started to become slowly artificial and less real which resulted into the rise of scambots / bots farming , and A.i being human wannabe , metaverse etc.. thing got worse . And COVID completely destroyed the physical World wth lockdown the world changed a second time so current generation can be "brainrot and bad problematic " thanks to social medias, phones , staying home 24h online After COVID things get worse 🤧😅😬🤧 2020 - 2022 The internet is no longer compact , the web is corporate and soulless now , it's like we settled for utilitarian Cold and realist bland we don't care about feeling optimistic cuz all those humanity crisis have made ppl feel lees and less optimistic and more scared until we stop caring about the web and the world being watered down , less fleshy , boring , bland , soulless now the Industry dumbed down into 🤧🤧🤮 " here u go eat ur burger and get out there's nothing exciting about it this Is a restaurant we have food you want go to a fun place we don't sell fun cuz it makes us poor goodie too shoes when we can be rich and careless about rewriting history that will fit our financial success instead of struggle and artificial intelligence tech now ,will do it at ou place " Still the same outside of the food industry. 2023 present
Facebook is mainly ads now and a bunch of pages that you don't even follow always pop up. Almost no one I know on there ever posts and a lot of them just use it for messenger
Things used to be everywhere. Now they're all in the same place. No more mystery or exploration. Nothing can just be its own thing, it has to be everything.
This is also applicable to Hollywood/Game publishers insisting on in everything. We used to have true diversity - we had movies and games that could be their own “thing.” One of the most popular game series in history has a woman as the main character…Portal and Portal 2 by Valve. Did anyone give a crap about that back then? No. Now everything has to be a melting pot, which leads to forgettable media.
It's because we're in a much worse economic and societal situation which is nearing depression than anyone is even acknowledging yet marked by record corporate greed. It's honestly so much worse than the Great Recession because there is ZERO trust in society anymore and everyone is more disconnected than ever.
I can agree with this sentiment.... everything now is so damn BORING!!!! Give us more color, more exciting stuff like we had in the 90's and Early 2000's. Bring back those wild and fun commercials we had, where kids were excited about that new hip video game coming out, or having fun with that new creative food product, bring back THE FUN!
And speaking of commercials, Toys “R” Us used SORA, an AI video generator for their new commercial and I extremely dislike it. I saw people post their older commercials in comparison and all it made me even sadder.
I was born in 82 myself. I remember the old Trapper Keepers, the art style on everything was wild.."post modern". Somehow we moved into a shadow realm of banal blandness, sterility everywhere. I have tapestries and medieval stuff all over my 1930s farm house. My home is full of rich colors and eccentric items. The best is my smoking room in my basement with an old Sansui record player and a ton of vinyl. Can't imagine living in one of those museum style houses!
@@Ziegfried82 I call them "Ikea houses". They look so bland and minimalist. I wonder if today´s minimalism is a trend that comes from a bad economy trying to feel less miserable by having things that look good but not necessarily are, like an expensive Apple device.
I remember going to Chinatown in Sydney as a teen in the late 90s and being amazed at how much.... STUFF there was and how cheap it was. Getting all the rare 80s and 90s anime movies/series. It felt electrifying.
born in 82 myself. As kid I'd turn on the TV as soon as I got up in the morning to get my weekend toon fix. Occasionally I got up too early and would catch some fitness ladies in classic 80s lycra suits, full of energy smiling and counting down their good morning routine. They were like a joybundle of energy and color, neon pink, so damn infectious. Got into fitness and lifting weights later on in life but never encountered such enthusiasm. Today there's always the same 2-3 variations of a Karen in the gym, it's mostly about aggression and pulling through, dead serious business.
here is what happened, We slowly relpaced cable TV with the internet, we replaced Computers with smartphones and social gatherings with Facebook, we gave up on what made the 2000s well... the 2000s, then when we got older we realized we shouldn't have done that, tiktok is the perfect formula of how to make everything shallow and stupid and we all know it.
Not really. Cable tv was strict controlled information, strict controlled entertainement, and 40% advertisements. Meanwhile Instagram and UA-cam both stole the ticktock formula to promote on their own services, of which the original vines were actually prime 2010's social media posting. People need to stop getting paid for posting online. The best of all online works were always done for passion, not put on a schedule so they could profit and pay rent
A lot of people go into posting online now with the intent of earning revenue, I think it's great that we can do that but it was a pipe dream even just a decade ago & that sort of attitude comes across in what a lot of people are making & posting. Especially with whole teams working on channels & what have you. I think it's important to remember why we create or post in the first place & hold onto some of that self expression, it gets a bit lost when you pass that through an editor that's only doing it because you're paying them, etc etc
We also went from "You're a nerd if you play video games" to "I'm a journalist and here's why gamers are bad people because they want to see Chun Li's thighs"
And those five companies are completely infested and subverted by communists who have always wanted to flatten out the world and make everything gray, because they are resentful of God and their own father for the crime of creating them. It was a clever tactic, I'll give them that
The older I get the more I think my depressive episode during early adulthood was less about there being something wrong with me, and more about me noticing how awful things were becoming that didn't need to be that way. Now, almost everyone I speak to gives me that same impression.
banger video (didn't watch it yet)
ur so real for this
The Chad comment prior to watching moment
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I used the internet as an escape from reality, now I use reality as an escape from the internet
Well said. I hope more and more people will give it a try. :)
This is me
This ☝️
@@Thedarcyboys well let’s restore the Internet to what it once was! Come on, there’s still a chance!
yee
The internet used to feel infinite, now it feels like a city block
Well, let’s make it infinite again! The Internet is our second home so what?
This comment should be on every Internet user's main page every time they use it.
FR, glad it’s not just me growing up
@@ethandtheangryenglishguy8253 You literally cant.
I’ve been on the internet since ‘04. >90% of my old bookmarks are expired domains now. Dead internet theory is a real thing.
I’m convinced Hollywood isn’t out of new ideas. They’re afraid of new ideas because you can’t mooch off of an existing fandom with them.
As to everything else, it feels like some corporate dystopia. Companies were always cold and corporate but at least they used to be fun in the process
I think it's about risk. Making movies got more expensive. It's not enough to have latex-mask aliens and cardboard sets any more, audiences expect higher standards and studios have a reputation to maintain. A "low-budget" hollywood film is one made for only fifty million dollars. When investing that much money into a movie the studio management doesn't want to run a risk with it - they want something with a proven track record of profitability. Franchises and sequels are best because they have a fandom who are guaranteed to watch even if the film is awful. Formulaic genre films that stick to tried-and-tested elements are also a good option.
@@vylbird8014yeah look at some of the classics from the 70’s and 80’s they would get laughed off screens today. It’s an unfortunate connect of Ticket prices increasing, production costs rising, actors salaries astronomically increasing, marketing costs, and risk. Plus with the internet the way it is currently you have one bad instance of cgi in a film and suddenly it’s the only photo you’ll ever see of that movie going forward disregarding all the other amazing scenes they may have produced (I’m looking at you Quantumania). Audiences are a lot less forgiving and a sense of entitlement has risen greatly online as such studios are less likely to risk it when they don’t know if something will succeed.
Genuinely if you ever want to see how the next era of films will likely go, look at Horror films. They tend to be a decade, or a little less, ahead of the major trends in Hollywood. For example: 2000’s all about remakes and sequels of older films. It showed an interest and as such bigger studios began adopting that model. 2010’s more indie and “elevated horror” projects focusing on trauma and mental illness, wouldn’t ya know that became a big trend in Hollywood afterwards and a bunch of Disney films and other animated ones started following suit. It’s not a 1:1 comparison but often times you’ll see the trend in horror just due to how low risk / high reward the genre can be. It’s a lot easier to experiment with a genre that audiences care about lot less about quality in as compared to blockbusters and such.
Hollywood was better when we had CRT TVs and PlasmaTVs I think SmartTVs are basically a form of spyware with injected ads that LITERALLY spy on you I miss being a kid flipping through channels just to watch something being old sucks man.
Established franchises are "safe" from an investment and public trading standpoint. One could easily argue that good things will come from low budget and experimentation, but the extreme budgets of the film serve to incentivize massive hype trains prior to release night
"Why make new thing when old thing make money?" Is the thought process I hate. I feel it's about a race of wealth accumulation and profit margins. Art under the stress of capital becomes sterile and awful- oh wait the entire video is about that
I hate the modern world so much. It feels like the soul, life, and creativity of humanity has been thrown away...
This right here... So much for all the "the future looks bright" rhetoric we all bull-shat ourselves into believing. Worst part is even boring, soulless, self-loathing personalities are becoming the only acceptable norm! See if I'm wrong, as time goes on... Express a controversial opinion, show bravery or any salience of being a free thinking individual, and see just how fast you're shunned. We must continue the good fight. Not as in a religious or political thing, or any bullshit like that. But the fight for the human SOUL.
They most likely planned all of it.
@@Plagueis_The_Wise I couldn't put my finger on it, find the words for it, but I think you spoke it better than I ever could, and I *t h a n k* you so much- I'm happy I'm not alone in these feelings, I'm glad it isn't just me.
@@Plagueis_The_Wise everything is censored and controlled now, before life was more free
@@stonethemason12They did.
as a 2000s kid i feel like i aged 30 years with how fast technology and society evolved. more like devolved tbh.
Indeed😮
Read up on the history of the Internet from the 70s to the 2000s. Essentially the other was originally created by a bunch of socially awkward nerds that wanted to give the Internet away for free. That it's a public service. That changed with AOL. It was the beginning of the end. That was 30 years ago. Look at this now. It's AOL times million
Same man. I feel like I'm 40 when I'm still in my 20s
Very relatable man ☹️
If you're a 2000 kid, you're not that far from aging 30 years since then anyway...
The fact that the world seems so bland and sad nowadays proves that a certain amount of inefficiency is totally necessary for the human condition. That extra pack of cool graphics, creative and crazy websites, colorful paint finishes on buildings, extra quality ingredients on food and intriguing designs and bold features on businesses that in in this day and age are considered "wasteful", made all the difference in the world back then, because we are not machines, but emotional beings.
Do people truly consider bold features wasteful?
@@linkskywalker5417 not all people, but people who need to pay costs for those stuff... it's becoming a monopoly
@@linkskywalker5417 People? No. Corporations? I think so.
@@linkskywalker5417these things require time. And time is money to "the man".
you need 'bland' to appreciate 'excitment'. "what goes up, must come down".
As a 90s kid one thing I miss the most is being able to edit your social media page's background, add widgets, multicolored status/names.....youtube's old user page felt much more PERSONAL, minimalism is killing OUR CREATIVITY. It genuinely infuriates me.
MySpace... NEED I SAY MORE COME ON GUYS!!!!
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@@thomasleongeorgerobertglad7560 let’s all go back to myspace! I was the last one to leave lol
@@thomasleongeorgerobertglad7560 hop on spacehey buddy
@@-book i have an account yes
I'm much older than the target audience for this video. I was born in 1965. During my childhood the year 2000 represented some sort of fantastical future that would revolve around space travel, robotics, increased affluence and leisure etc. Imagine how disappointing the 21st century has been for those of us who were born in the 1960's. We were the 'children of the revolution', born into a more Conservative era, but one that was becoming more and more permissive. During our formative years, in the 1980's, hairstyles and clothes were often wild and exotic. From the 1960's to 1980's youth led the way and youth cultures proliferated. This has all changed. Youth no longer leads the way and no visible youth cultures seem to exist any more. Clothing and hairstyles are no longer wild, exotic or innovative, as they once were. Every one seems to dress so shabbily now. The aesthetics of everything are so bland - from clothing styles, cosmetics and hair to new architecture and consumer products. Everything now is spiritless.
Even game shows like Press Your Luck and the Price is Right were entertaining. From the game show hosts even to some of the guests.
1980’s game shows had an atmosphere and charm that don’t exist anymore.
I was born in the 80s and I for sure thought by now we were going to be living like The Jetsons 😂
I was born in 1998, my mother 1975, im so glad that I was raised by her doing what she loved and grew up doing, it made me develop a love for the 80s and 90s culture and movies because that's what she grew up with, I almost feel like in a way even though I'm technically a Gen Z that I am more millennial than anything, the world just doesn't seem to have the personality or character or hell even motivation for things like there used to be
@@Adventure3Man I’m over a decade older than you, but was raised in the same way.
Those eras were just a better time.
@Rosie82333 Me too, 1984.
I don't have a flying car, just a 2013 Corolla I'm still struggling to pay off.
Sometimes I feel like I’m being gaslit man. I look around and damn near EVERYTHING has gone down in quality. Books, art, tv series, movies, architecture, the internet, food…
It’s like the world is turning into one big factory complex
We are in the post-credit scenes of civilisation
Welcome to cyberpunk where big companies are the lords and we become a technofeudalism with infinite subscriptions for everything we (don't) own
Was just mentioning to a friend earlier about how everything feels weird, dystopian, and stale lately, and how much i yearn for a life outside mainstream civilization because of it. I think society is effectively dry-rotting and entering its forever-ugly phase
Truth told in movie, 'The Worlds End'. Man said in the movie, "They're Star Bucking us man". Meaning, taking all the soul out of everything and giving us soulless, copy and paste everything. We will create beauty again and not this gray spell (soulless spell). peace love light
@@VinnyUnion What a stupid statement, completely devoid of any real meaning or nuance. If you'd said Corporatism/Cronyism then I would agree 100%. But Capitalism, as a whole, isn't inherently bad if you take away the Corporate aspects to it and focus more on Free Market. In fact it's the only system that works compared to the likes of Communism or Socialism. If you can come up with a system better than Capitalism (that genuinely works) then let me know because I'd be very interested in hearing about it. Capitalism is far from perfect but it's the best we've got for now, it's just unfortunate that Corporatism from human greed ruins it.
when the silicon valley companies started buying up everything that was popular, stripped it of it's personality and prioritized monetization in every way possible.
exactly,thats it
exactly.
Yeah greed has destroyed so many good things.
Music, video games, movies, TV shows.
Writing.
It's now all low quality things meant to sell to the majority people for the sake of mindless profit
and made it inoffensive
@LamelKendrick sorry u can't say the n word freely anymore bud 😢
The internet in the 2000's wasn't every website trying to be a subscription service. Facebook bought Instagram, which used to be a neat photography sharing app, into a booty twerking, attention seeking and marketing app. Miss just doing shit for fun instead doing shit for likes and clicks. Internet really just became shit when people started getting paid/famous for likes and views.
This comment deserves more likes
My girl and I lament IG's downfall. It's all toxicity and even pages that start good eventually become OF pushers.
The Internet became shit when women took it over
@@Superabound2Dawg. Not cool💀
Delete your comment rn before people start calling you the word.
@@Superabound2 You have no idea do you? Or you are just in a particular part of the internet that was dominated by man and woman took it into their own hands. Time passed on, not woman are the fault but all of us in a way.
11:24 The majority of shopping centers now have building codes. Buildings are not allowed to stand out as they once did. As for the insides not being "cozy," that is a deliberate choice to maximize profit. McDonald's makes no revenue off of your comfort inside during or after eating. They already have your money. Now they want you gone. Because your presence could deter other customers, for fear of being too crowded.
The destruction of unique buildings drives me up the wall. Every town in the nation used to have its own culture. Their own unique THINGS. Now it's all the same. Bland, even tourist towns are just the same shit rehashed. Just all designed to make money, not designed for the people who live and work in these places.
@@bry10101Exactly.
Another problem is the old people have all passed on. Who replaced them? Entitled Millennials and Gen Z who don’t care that are contributing to this decline.
In the 80’s and 90’s my small town had a bunch of older people. Guys in their 70s and 80s who experienced the depression all the way up to the events of the 1960’s.
It was fun listening to their stories because they were unique and society back then was not glued to screens or reading the same scripts. Now people are NPCs who cannot take opposing viewpoints, creating this divide that simply didn’t exist back in the 80’s and 90’s.
It’s awful.
well that is Capitalism for you, everything for profit. Gotta suck it up.
@@KratostheThird so Gen X and the boomers just all died?
@@zachroberts1988 WW2 and Silent to be more specific.
The internet used to feel massive, endless and free. Now it's a tiny puddle of stagnant water with "do not run" signs around it.
In 10 years we went from laughing at 'someone is wrong on the Internet' guy to being 'fact-checked'.
Definitely, like I would spend hours going through tons of websites finding all kinds of stuff I like, now, Google only gives you a few results on the first page then spam for the rest, and it doesn't even have more than 2 pages of search results. It's intentional I feel.
@@massburgers1337If the shoe fits
@@TanyaKatherine Definitely! Censorship went into overdrive during covid and the 2020 election.
@@robertharper3114 Internet was great before it was opened for the mainstream, now it's like a huge shopping mile. "This is not your cozy pub anymore."
This is what got me to go outside more. Most things online seem so bland and fake now. I don't know how to describe it. It made me realize how much of a waste of time it is.
look Into dead internet theory sometime. Its starting to become more and more real
Yeah, in the past I played video games and surfed a lot, nowadays I go outside, visiting real geese (wild and domesticated once) and got pure happiness feelings there, with nature and animals!
@@BradleytheDavis It really does seem to be getting more true by the day. Eventually youtube videos won't even need real people. AI will be good enough to replace real people in videos.
Agree
@@HerecomestheCalavera I love your pfp lol 😂 suits you’re comment .
People can slam the 80's and 90's all they want, but at least it wasn't boring.
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The 80s and 90s were awesome. I wouldn't want to grow up in the present time since the turn of the century. I feel bad for my nieces and nephews. It seems so stressful and not easy to navigate. Everything moves really fast now.
I also realize that people have been saying, "Things were better in my day" since time immemorial. I think there's plenty of examples to support that statement, but I try to keep an open mind and not get too outwardly negative about it.
I don't know, though. Only time will tell if it's as dark of a future as I suspect that people are in for.
@@rickjames8317 It's all nostalgia. Everything sucked in its own way -- I hated the tackiness of the 90s and I grew up in them.
@@CoralCopperHead I can appreciate that it could possibly be nostalgia. I just don't think that it is. I think that there's a couple of fundamental changes that can be objectively observed.
One is the nature of technology and its omnipresence in today's society.
The second is a total paradigm shift in post 9/11 America. I think that both have eroded privacy and freedom. It's created an environment where everything is recorded, nothing is forgotten. The things you do and say will follow you essentially forever. Humans make mistakes and it makes it difficult to just be a human.
As I stated previously, I totally understand that every generation has thought that things were 'better' in their day. I also understand that somethings are notably better now, it's not all downside. But I just feel that it's currently an overall worse time to grow up than 40yrs ago.
Nobody bashes the 80s and 90s.
I was a web designer in late 90's early 2000s, I was a flash expert building websites like a mini game, opening doors and traveling inside the content. With the introduction of the iPhone everyone was now looking at the web in a strange tight vertical format and no longer landscape as you would see on large monitors. Flash was soon canceled and websites no longer were permitted to have sound. It essentially killed all creativity and now websites all look the same and are no longer fun.
Early 2000’s web design was the best.
The real super hero is ur stepdad being a badass father figure who spent quality time with you
100%, a stepdad that diserved to be called "dad"
He’s not the Stepdad, he’s the dad that stepped up
@@BENSTER489 Crazy Take
@@BENSTER489huh? If anything this stepdad made sure his family unit was healthy and good for him.
Why are you contributing with your weird comment?
@@drestotv4444How many of you are woke liberal socialists
Shrek taught us that any politician that promises a perfect world is a true villian. Imperfection is where it's at.
A politician that shows you exactly what they are-naked avarice-is preferable to a pharasaic "world saving" politician who pretends to a higher purpose while persuing power. Vote Donald Trump and Make America Great Again
As a frutiger aero fan, I just deteriorated reading that.
Libs man
Well, who should trust a stranger to determine their own life?
@@sarov7658 Have you not been paying attention to what the Republican Party has become? They want America to become a Christian nationalist nation, and their frontrunner is a convicted felon who partied with a child sex trafficker for 15 years.
I think seeing how customizable social media pages used to be explains why I love looking at people’s Steam profiles so much.
I’ve been on steam for an ungodly amount of time, and it’s honestly a complete inverse of all of this.
It used to be boxy and green, then over time has switched to more gradient colors.
Your profiles used to be pretty bare bones when they allowed it, and have slowly morphed into the customization we have today, with the showcases, and the backgrounds, and avatar banners, mini profiles.
Honestly valve is killing it.
I disagree. Steam offers the same customisation as Discord, and that's a desperate grasp at the customisation you used to get. In order to customise a page, you must buy games and buy pre-existing wallpapers over submitting your own.
Valve holds the keys, they just give you a bigger pen.
@@scrittleheck, any of the really cool stuff that discord allows you to do is locked behind a paywall anyway
@@scrittle At least the points are REALLY EASY to get. I got so many just collecting dust because of the sales I keep on buying from
@@lisatroiani6119 veskcord
It’s not just childhood nostalgia it’s so lame now like where the buffets? Where the sit down pizza huts with salad bar ? Where the color ? Film is far superior to digital
Colour hits hard. Just look at cars. Everyone drives black/white/grey cars, where's the reds, blues, greens etc.
@@MrGamermoto oh
buffets are cheaper for restaurants to operate foodwise, but require more employees
after a bunch of people lost their jobs in 2008, businesses are seeking ways to reduce the number of employees, even if it increases the strain on the employees remaining
@@cara-seyun oof
Ya I really miss photos being so expensive and having to wait weeks before i find out they’re any good
You absolutely nailed it. Despite having my full time career dependent on this website, I find myself spending less time than ever on it. Everything feels "solved" and not in a good way; where most of what you see blends into each other and just runs down checklists of what's been proven to work.
The fact I can guess exactly how most videos I'm recommended are paced, written, and even the exact punchlines to their jokes makes searching for quality an ever increasingly arduous task.
Hell even most of the comments are the same recycled jokes that require no context from the video whatsoever.
yep, people have stopped trying to be original and innovative because they're too focused on getting engagement. algorithms have ruined everything
I don't know if you'd find solice in this, but I still consider "How It's Actually Made" one of the funniest series I've ever seen on the webz
Hello Huggbees :>
It’s kinda like cheap Chinese food after a while it all tastes the same
the way you put it it reminds me of games. when a new game comes out, everyone learns, everything goes, everything gets tried out. a few months in and some people did the math, by that point, a meta develops because the game became a science as was reduced to math and if you dont use what the math says is best, youre at a disadvantage
Culture is being eroded. There used to be pop culture in tv, music, and movies everyone pretty much shared. Today we don’t share any of it and everything feels forced onto us.
This was what 90's television was about. Kids in highschool would talk about what Will did to Uncle Phil in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. They all watched the episode, then the next afternoon while they were at lunch in school they would discuss what was funny about it.
We don't share that anymore.
Funny how "culture is being eroded" is preached every other decade, but the ones preaching it always think everything was fine when the prior generation was the one doing it.
@@KratostheThirdHow many of you are woke liberal socialists
@@pepelefrog1121 Excuse me? Care to elaborate here?
80s and 90s were peak American culture. We've been subverted by globalism and mandatory diversity
Just wanted to say I profoundly hate funko pops.
Same tbh
Thank God I'm not the only one. I can't stand their giant bulbous heads and black soulless eyes.
Same, as a toy collector they take up space everywhere good stuff could be.
Entire walls of that trash haunt me in every shop.
Me2
They look so boorrrriiinnnggggg why do people buy so many of them😭
The answer is: centralization.
Only a few people/corporations own almost everything & it's impossible for anyone to compete
I grew up in the 90s, you aren't just imagining things. For me 2012 was the time I started questioning whether I was still in the same reality I grew up in.
I feel like they said the world was going to end in 2012 and everyone lost their mind over Aztec calendars and when it didn’t… I think 2015 was when the fallout and burnout of repeatedly doomscrolling life fell in on itself and gamergate started the trend of outrage opinions became the norm, and censorship became commonplace. We’re almost at the 10 year anniversary of the death of the internet. I go outside more now.
Same but I'd say more in 2015.
I was born 95 but I feel the same. Around 2012 was the start of a massive decline.
@@Skumtomten1 I’m a 95er too, I think 2007 was a big shift. Most of the Cartoons we grew up with were all canceled by 2007. Most music, movies, and TV shows post 2007 just are so bland and soulless.
2011 for me. Things really became grey that year
Im a house painter. 2001-2007 people had faux finishes, murals painted. After 2008 everyone has beige or gray, just in case they have to sell. After the market crash every thing is about what would someone else want so i wouldnt have to repaint if selling and devoid of art, color and beauty.
I wore mostly beige in the '80s too and our house was quite depressing with those dark muddy browns. It wasn't the superficial what made those years great. There wasn't an outrage culture, yet there weren't so many different perspectives either. People could reach an agreement and could work towards a common goal. That's what is missing now.
@@sage_silvestris That is the worst I see nowadays. No unity at all and it's world-wide. People is bold, too sarcastic. I do not know, I grew up in the 90s and world completely changed to this weird situation in just 20 years. What is the future? Ice-cold people all around the place? Maybe we are already there.
Lol same argument as my mom's but in regards to cars: no weird colour otherwise it'd be a problem should we have to sell it
If you talk with common man and woman most are the same as you, level headed and know the powers to be sow division. A lot of the propaganda only works on the weak minded and they believe the majority are this way and they are not.
I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where they all conform with the colorless clothes on and when it rains the dye runs rainbow color and they get their independent individualism back. Brutalist architecture, modern art are all ways to imprison the mind and culture, holding us back from advancement and beauty.
The sad thing is that today, everything is now owned by just two or maybe three people who don't understand a thing other than "how can i suck and kill the soul out of this thing for money" that's what's happening now.
We're doing to our own culture what we've already done to the environment
They understand 'numbers go up' perfectly well.
even back in the 2000s they were doing that theyd just hire weirdos and creative types to do all the packaging
Average 13yo worldview
@@coffeebot7016 I'm 19 dude.
This perfectly encapsulates what i have been feeling lately. I’m too young to remember myspace, but I still get the vibe that things have changed. The internet feels so fake. It’s like a wasteland, it’s all about engagement and money. It doesn’t feel like anyone does anything for fun anymore. Everything is as neutral and censored as possible, to appeal to the largest audience possible. It creates such a disillusioned feeling.
The shot of the plant at the end honestly stopped me from spiraling, so thanks for that.
Add AI slop to that - derivative generation of other people's art into plastic slop is a perfect addition to the blandness of this late stage capitalism
As a GenXer, a 70s kid who went to high school and college in the 80s, I feel this very acutely. The world of today is incredibly bland compared to how I envisioned it as a youngster.
Keyword "youngster"... you were young.
Idk man, I'm 20 and my brother is 12, we are both quite sick of how things are now. I think it's cross-generational
They already did that and its why the Internet is so bland. Almost every big website is squarespace or other ready madetemplates. You dont need to even understand how to write a Hello World file to use it.
@@Future_Max Yeah, some people just chalk it up to nostalgia but it's clearly not. the 90's-00's were truly a golden era for free expression and innovation unlike any in history or likely in the future. Now it's been taken over. I can't even respond to you in the way I want to because my comment might be removed!
Agreed it is more than just nostalgia. The 2000s on have no unique identity aside from social media
I remember seeing a meme a while back that basically talked about how the internet used to be a dedicated thing you had to go to. You had to go to a specific room in your house that had a computer. Or you had to go to a library or a web cafe. You couldn't wait to get home from work or school to be able to spend some time on the internet. Now we are all constantly connected to high speed internet through a small brick in our pocket. Our TVs are always connected to it. It is very rare that you are ever not connected to the internet. Using the internet is no longer a fun little event that you get to enjoy. I can remember when using any form of social networking was an exciting thing. Now it's just all exhausting and annoying. I know I definitely don't get the dopamine hit from the internet that I used to.
That's because the plan is to use it for so much more and it is much more they can use it to transfer energy through signals through a central power grid like we see on star trek, we're already seeing the beginning of mainframes like how they're connecting all the airports to the same mainframe that needs up to 5 backup systems. Which is why that crash we heard about just happened, they had no backups but it's quite experimental right now so i guess they wanted to see what would happened. Nikola Tesla is the one who figured out energy can be transferred using wireless signals and now we've got the technology scientists have figured it out which is how you can charge your phone on a charging dock, that's near energy transfer but the hard part is far energy transfer.
We already see now NASA and other science agencies use signals to send to whatever they have in space, well that will get a trillion times faster and internet signals do and already internet could have a max speed of 406 terabytes per second, and that tops the previous records of 301 and 319 tbps like can you imagine how fast that would be and what we could do with that? amplifies have been invented to use the already existing fiber optic lines.
After 2030 it's going to be used to integrate the world fully into controlling artificial intelligence they intend to control robots to do the more tedious work tasks and so much more in the future, they've already invented cars that will communicate with everything and everyone around it including vulnerable pedestrians but probably to everyone so we know when cars are approaching or coming around a corner. When they said we aren't going back to normal governments meant it because the world we knew is morphing into a different one fully integrated with AI and the internet.
What we must do is think about the conveniences we don't really need and what we really need to use when we need to and everyone has to start really caring about their safety when it comes to privacy especially not saying all kinds of things about themselves online and being anonymous because technology is going to get a whole lot more complicated with more responsibilities. So everything connected to the internet is the new normal now no going back eventually we need to evolve if you can call it that, but you have to think about how you yourself use it and how far you want to get involved and personally even if virtual reality becomes big i'm not going to be using it i'll wait for holodecks lol.
@@Harteo3917I like your mind brother.
Yup. I used to look forward to reading my email. Now I have several and tired of all the spamy junk in every inbox.
@Rockerlady Outlook is great you only need the one then because you can use aliases and then get rid of them once they start receiving too much spam. You can use one of them to login too so you aren't using your real email. Wherever we use our email it's going to end up floating around. However if you use any sites that don't accept aliases you'll want a second email to use it for that.
🎉🎉wake up internet is addictive and even may be free but gets you to buy 💩
Like two years ago I watched an extremely specific meme that implied that those born in the mid to late 90s were born just in time to see the last trends characterized by an optimistic aesthetic, in everything, fashion, hardware design, music, software and hope for an awesome unimaginable future that seemingly was actually materializing. As months pass by I cannot help but think of how i grew in the very early 2000s and saw that world vanish right in front of me. Damn, nostalgia and yearning for the past are definitory traits of people under 40, I think.
I feel like the world a lot of us were born in died in 2001. 9/11 destroyed a lot of things. It killed the era of optimism and ushered in an era of terror, self-loathing, and apathy.
@@chrismedina54 Yeah, I agree to a certain point. The grim attitude towards the 21st century post 9/11 was greatly felt outside the US. However other factors, I believe, include: Dissapointment in neoliberal democracies, economical crises that led to 2008 depression and its long lasting effects, war on terror as an excuse to impose over the world, consolidation of technocrats and the reign of technogical industries, internet (formerly a true free and infinite place) turned to a mere mean of disinformation, celebrity obsession and propaganda, industries taken from the hands of creatives by corporates and excutives, among many others. Hell, no wonder why people yearn for the past so much, all this shit in less than a quarter of a century.
@@JuanRodriguez-qw1vr
celebrity obsession is one that REALLY annoys me, it's so much worse when the celebrity that someone is convulsing over has no skillset or talent or even remotely the same interests. People literally gushing over a lower-than-baselevel human just because someone else on the screen (possibly even AI) told them to. If it weren't for the stranglehold of corpos and Hollywood then I'm pretty sure this would have been legally deemed a mental illness
@@CharlieFoxtrot Sadly true. Once a celebrity loses their status, another, usually much worse, person (content-wise) is ready to take over their spot.
You haven't even reached the apex of that feeling yet, Juan. It kicks in hard at 50.
It's so true. There was a cozy af coffee shop by my own house that was a loft design, full of warm earth-tones with exposed red brick and richly-stained wood. When it was snowing outside the tall windows, it was so lovely especially at night.
One day they decided to make it more like their 'head office downtown'. The walls? Painted white. The warm exposed wood and brick? Painted white. Toss in some cheap plastic plant pots. All semblance of comfort was sterilized and it felt more like a hospital cafe. I *loved* going there but after that did not return.
There was also a pub nearby. It was full of library walls, cool statues, low easy lighting, and so many little cozy nooks to have your meal in. They renovated it into a big, open, bare, rectangular box that echoed so much it induced anxiety.
Truly we are sterilizing the comfort and uniqueness out of our world.
Back in the 90s and 2000s there was a certain optimism and excitement in design. We had an optimistic view of the future so everything was dreamlike and enigmatic in design. Businesses and branding were bright, colorful, and eyecatching. Now... it's like we've settled for utilitarian. Cold and realist. We don't care about feeling optimistic or excited, it's just "here you go. Eat your burger and get out" There's nothing exciting about it. "This is a restaurant. We have food. You want fun go to a fun place. We don't sell fun."
Yes design is always reflecting the culture's mood.
People lost their zest for the future after the pandemic. I agree to your "eat your burger and get out".
@@goofyboots4828 It certainly didn't help, but this all started way before the pandemic
@@OrgaNik_Music yeah when the industry Changed wth social medias and corporate greed utilitarian
No. You just mushed your brain with unnecessarily videos and products. So nothing interests you.
“I can’t pin point when this change happened.”
2009-2010. It felt like the party was over and everyone was going home. You saw less of extreme fashion genres, things got lazy, everything was going through renovations. The songs on the radio were slowly starting to lose the melodic feeling of “effort” in the years prior. It started sounding the same and all having the familiar “let’s party” beat, but at the same time feeling completely lifeless like it was losing the soul and momentum.
Like a nightclub, the constant pop music and flashing lights leaves people feeling empty
@@Future_Max ughhh I know it’s so disappointing! When I was younger I expected nightclubs to essentially be the equivalent of making friends on the playground but for adults. Instead it’s mostly just full of those who peaked in high school, validation seekers/ a sea of insecurity and the need to abuse substances in order to have a good time. Which is honestly a really unfortunate culture. I don’t blame buildings with lights and music meant for socializing I blame the types of people they attract.
Idk, I felt like there was still a glimmer of that early Internet charm in the early 10s, but maybe that's just nostalgia. Nyan Cat wouldn't have felt out of place in 2005 yet it's from 2011.
Relatively true. There was some pushback at that time, but when it really came out was 2011-2012.
Definitely the early to mid 2010s
The change imo was like a firework show ending, only because we got some really great stuff in the midst of the end.
My son and I have a theory on the bland cube shape fast food restaurants. If they have no unique shape or features, they can easily be turned into a different bland restaurant if they fail and are sold.
That's the reason plus you get the same thing with high rises. Skyscrapers used to be unique and had character. Now they are all glass rectangles easier to repackage plus the floor plan and space can stay the same bottom to top.
Solid theory! Then they don't end up like the T-Mobile store that was once obviously a Pizza Hut.
@@bcj842
Environmental storytelling was part of the fun too
True, used to have a Taco John's here and now it's a Taco Bell and if you didn't see what it was before you never would have known the difference.
It’s the billion dollar corporations that are building bland restaurants, unlike small restaurants that are usually quite unique. Don’t give these mega corps the benefit of the doubt.
We're living in dystopia folks. Get used to it.
You best start believin in cyberpunk dystopias, you're in one!
Everything started getting bland in 2017. I remember because I worked for a local TV station at the time and our new graphics package felt like a downgrade from the previous one. Less 3D objects and cool transitions. By 2020 they downgraded to completely flat 2D graphics with zero 3D animations. It was so bad our weather guy complained about how bad the 5 day forecast graphics looked but it was set in stone. We already bought what we got and was stuck with it.
I had the Weather Channel back in the early 2000’s and I remember all the cool animations they used to have. Today they’re just as bad as anyone else.
It was 2012 for me I noticed things started changing for the worse.
So…your weather channel caused everything to get bland? Y’all can we please use critical thinking? I hate when people can’t see past their own anecdotal experience and get so stuck in a narrative that they tell themselves enough to believe.
@@loadishstone so are you being dense on purpose or are you seriously missing the fact that this person is sharing their experience as a related anecdote and not that it was the cause of the downfall of graphic design
@@KratostheThird I miss the RPG final boss music that would on the weather channel when a hurricane would hit.
I miss how colorful and cool stuff used to look
Everything is SO BLAND and not exciting anymore. It's rare to see that kinda vibrant stuff now :(((
just like how everything was brown and wood in the 80s lol , 90s and early 2000s had the most colorful designs
Ya remember when McDonald’s was colorful but now they are grey and distopian
i feel this way specifically with roblox more than anything else. i joined roblox back when it looked colorful and fun like a KIDS website is supposed to be. now? its the same gray, neutral template that every other website is and its sad. i guess the site is trying to appeal to everyone now and not just kids, but that's no excuse to suddenly just not have a soul anymore.
@@snoot6629 70s common man interior design, with wood paneling, stained glass pendant lights, yellows, greens, browns, oranges for paint/appliance/furniture colors, insane wallpapers, shag carpeting (often in scarlet red or forest green), everything was so unbelievably fugly but I love it so much, so colorful and warm, so unlike what we have today.
@@abaddon2148 Yeah, even though I don't like it, I can see why some people see a charm in 70's style - it still had some soul. But now you can only compare things to Soviet Russia's Combloc - as simple and plain as possible to minimize expenses and offenses (and to maximize profits for higher ups).
Growing up, the internet was something you used for fun. We used it to escape reality. We used search engines to find communities of similar interests. Forums/BBS ruled. Games used to have server browsers and servers would have their own micro communities with forums and websites.
Then the Internet started to become ingrained in every aspect of our life. We live on the internet now. It’s attached to all of our devices. Forums are dead, replaced by social media and Discord groups. Game developers replaced server browsers with match matching. Now I escape the internet by experiencing reality.
Now it's time for your existential dose of what is reality?
100%. I miss dedicated servers and forums and the like.
Forums are not dead. They just don't attract people who are new to the Internet because they are so computer-illiterate they live in their tiny smartphone cloud tailored by few applications they use. Their experience of Internet is isolated and miniscule and, because of the algorithms that feed off such demise, these people can't get out. They don't know there's something more out there.
Forums still attract many people, especially niche forums. And they're wonderful places that lack the bottom of the barrel that has their heads stuck in their smartphones.
I loved forums where you created your own profile/avatar and actually were anonymous. I loved discussing strategies and other stuff with people that shared the same passion for games or other hobbies on these forums. Sure you had trolls, but they were entertaining. Back then games were amazing as well.
Most countries also had their own Facebook which created close communities within that space. Everything changed quickly when Facebook became popular and the smartphone. All the sudden people started to share their lives on the Internet, and being anonymous was no longer a thing. Everyone flocked to Facebook and eventually the Internet became fully integrated into most people's every day life, whetever they wanted it or not.
I don't really have a passion for anything anymore. Everything I used to love feels lame and dull now. Though I still miss these forums for sure.
Even then reality is shit I stay in my room walking around in circles daydreaming☠️
As an 80's/90's kid, everything back then was always so over the top, on purpose. Everything was "extreme!" It was sometimes ridiculous, but gave everything so much character that is just absent today.
Despite being born in the early 2000s, these days I feel a bit out-of-touch with how fast the world seems to be moving, especially with how "artificial" everything feels
At the very least, it's a bit comforting to know that others are growing aware of this too
Edit: oh god don't even get me STARTED on wanting to go outside for some "fresh air" only to see the same monotonous, exploitative shit everywhere
I was born in the mid 2000s and feel the exact same way as you.
Yup it has me playing and replaying the same music of back then just to feel a sense of authenticity and comfort in life
Though I do it so much and I wish a new thing would just come out with the same genuine expression and artistry
Also from 2000-ish. But where I grew up, we were like 10 years behind the US and other countries in everything tech and entertainment related.
Around 2012, we started to catch up to globalization and made a jump back to the present. Everything went to shit faster than I could keep track.
I felt so out of touch with my own generation when the change happened.
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters That's interesting because I've watched some videos of Taiwan and Philippines and in a way, they kind of seem like they are currently in the 90's era of the USA with a sense of optimism and innovation and fun vibes to attract customers and kids, maybe because not everyone can afford all the latest high-tech stuff and they still have a sense of community and go outside. But nobody can completely escape the negative influences of the USA/Western world now.
Born in ‘88. I went to the mall recently and felt like I was transported to 2000. I saw a couple of goths. A mental guy wearing weird clothes and Crocs with Thomas The Train toys attached to them. A guy with a bleached blonde shaved head, dog collar and Blink 182 shirt (2003 album cover) laughing at the Thomas The Train guy, and much more. Great people watching. It was a nice escape from reality back to my nostalgic youth.
The American shopping mall is a husk of its former glory also. We can thank the Internet for that too.
@@BloodandSoilNS What's that have to do with being born in 87, Archie Bunker?
@@BloodandSoilNSRacist af
Our mall is 80% empty and sadly dilapidated. A perfect representation of the sentiment of this video.
@@notoriusdrifter40 how is that racist? It's the truth and nothing hateful was even said against them
It's funny that you noticed fast food restaurants trying to move you on - their designs are explicitly with the point of reducing how long you stay in the building, so they can move through more customers. I studied this in University in the 2010s.
They don't have as many customers these days as well.
And yet they're slower than ever. I've had sit down meals served quicker than some "fast" foods orders these days.
My mom always said that was why they have the AC blowing so cold inside of them. This just corroborates that notion.
Like putting in forward slanting chairs at the tables so people are uncomfortable and want to hurry and eat.
You already covered this but something that I hate so much is that the social media pages are less customizable, you used to be able to change the color of most things, play with the text, add backgrounds, there were no character limits, but now the most personalization you get is a profile photo and a banner
Life is really starting to feel meaningless again. I see ads everywhere I go. I'm sick of corporate and government greed. I just want the early 2000s again
Even jobs have ads on how to be
To be fair, the ads used to be everywhere too. It's just that they weren't as in your face or bland. It's odd to say that ads used to actually be kind of nice
@@starfoxdelta yes. even a lot of ads had charm and were actual attempts to get you to buy.
Corporate greed existed in 2000 the difference was we didn't have smart phones. We could disconnect from corporate noise easier. We are also more innocent
famously there was no corporate greed in the early 2000’s, you wish were a baby again
Reject bland corporate products, Embrace passionate Indie projects.
(On a serious note, the reason things are so bland is that each decade has had its own "comfort style", and with the modern decade the style is Minimalism and sequal-bait)
Minimalism is a hipster style of art designed to take the least amount of time to create. Minimalism used to be old clipart packages you inserted into Word projects. What a rotten, regressing world we live in.
@@scrittle Just like hipsters, it was first a counter to "complex for the sake of complexity" art, now it's become what hipsters are now, a staple of bland corporate designs.
minimalism and sequel-bait are hardly comforting at all so the fact they even became a "comfort style" is just. baffling.
@@MapleZer0 agreed
Sadly, the indie scene are being cropped up by the same drivel that got us here in the first place. Indies need to do a lot more and give us amazing stories. Any others who do less than that should be rejected.
I know a few people who are writers. Hollywood didnt run out of ideas. Hollywood plays it so safe that they reject new ideas because they stick with what will make them money.
None of that is new. What is new that previous generations didn’t experience is letting woke people run the studios and then use ESG money to make awful films promoting leftist propaganda.
What they THINK will make money
Exactly. It what the c-suite and board thinks will make the most money. There's plenty of cool concepts out there - just look at indie moves (if you can still find them.)
They are out of ideas, this is a cool theory, but no. It finished. I dont watch movies anymore.
@@UD503J You have to know those indie films. Hollywood produces pure junk. Top Gun Maverick was the only film I enjoyed from them these past few years.
for me, an 80s kid coming of age in the late 90s early 00s, the event that turned the world gray was 9/11. Things seemed like they were getting back on track just about the time Covid happened and fucked the economy to kingdom come. I went from having a decent job to barely surviving over the span of the last 3 years, and i still work the same job. the cost of living just skyrocketed all the sudden because of greedy rich corporations that need to be eaten.
Everything stopped feeling real and like a simulation the more we attached ourselves to the Internet. It's messing with our psychology. We are the first generations ever to experience this shift, and its crazy to think how i grew up during this transformation as a child. I think it's more dangerous than we realized, especially when young. Now kids are growing up on tik tok and their dreams are to be influencers. Everything is so different.
Tiktok is one of the few times im proud to have an old man mentality. Being trained to expect a full video to be 1 minute long most destroy gen z, but they feel like a movie lasts an eternity.
@@Queerlien I dunno how old your are but I agree. The more we attach ourselves to the Internet and related technologies, the less happy we've all seemed to become. That very fact is starting to become clear to more and more people, and I hope that continues. I hope one day not too far in the future, most of us will collectively agree that this shit mostly sucks and we will drastically cut back on large parts of it. Maybe we'll even look at it as an actual mental health hazard. I can only hope.
Women are still more dangerous than the internet.
I agree. I’m similar, I was a kid in the 90s and teen with internet and it seemed all fun and games then but now my own kids are drowning in the ridiculous content being forced down their throats and I worry constantly about whether they’re having too much internet access.
@@faesdays yeah, totally. I worry that *all* of us spend too much time spent on our the internet and our devices, but like I worry about kids. I especially worry for kids, teens and some young adults because pretty much all of them have never known any other world.
Something created for everybody is special to nobody. In trying to offend nobody they have removed all of the spice even the salt and pepper.
The world has become universal, sterile, cold, uniform, and modular to be made and sent everywhere and anywhere.
Nothing is unique, everything wants to be like the rest, they all follow and no one leads, no risks, everything must be alike and normal, nothing can stand out or break the uniformity.
Well said. And the algorithm will make sure that anything and everything that deviates from that will be buried so deep that nobody will ever unearth it.
more or less has been for 300ish years
It’s va all about destroying culture and homogenizing them all into one.
100% acurrate, I try to stand to other kids too!
when you think about it, society isn't as social as it used to be, I don't really see that many people eating inside a mcdonalds or burger king anymore, cause it's not inviting. Your either ordering it online for delivery or you're using the drive thru. the only time I order inside is when I'm with friends, but we leave anyway when we get our orders.
Bro I'm 30 now and man man man it was a time to be alive early 2000s with how new and creative a lot of different things were.
Today its like nothing even comes close.
Same age here. Early 2000's were a beautiful time to be a kid.
Same age here. the 2000s *_SUCKED._* Fighting my way home every day after school because I had the gall to play videogames or read books without having them assigned to me by a class was _not_ a good time. If you disagree, you were either supremely lucky or part of the problem.
You should have enjoyed the 60s and 70s. You got homogenized! Sad.
Same age. Know that feel. I remember stumbling accross blogs maintained by hobbyists and loving it. That shit never happens anymore
Me too man, It was genuinely a time to be alive. I miss it dude, it was good but death comes for all things one way or another.
I feel like we’re living in a corporate dystopia where everything is just a cash grab, no matter how they put it or how much they say it’s to help you.
Edit: What really bothers me is you can’t trust ANY of the companies you used to. AT&T is a scam, Verizon is a scam, any service or product you’re buying is a scam because you’re not truly getting what you paid for. Video games suck, all the new big titles are boring and lack soul and passion. Music also lacks passion.
Late stage capitalism is truly dystopic. I wonder if 100 years from now America will be looked at as the bizzaro Soviet Union. Communism taken to its extreme vs capitalism taken to its extreme. It’s ugly either way
I agree with you completely. In any business, the name of the game is to get you to take money out of your account and give it to them voluntarily. While the concept seems simple, the strategy to make it happen becomes more complexed. Take your supermarket, for example. Some supermarket companies will go as far as having hidden scent machines, so whatever aisle/section you are in, for example, the produce section=fresh oranges, cleaning aisle=lemons, deli=rotisserie chicken or cereal=grains. Now, there is talk of Walmart going digital prices tagging so the price can fluxuate depending on demand within a moment. Checkout bottled drinks can go up when it gets hot and down in the cooler hours.
the more they have to say it to sell it, the less true it is.
Race to bottom
I was thinking how much prettier Night City was in Cyberpunk, compared to many of our current cities 😂
When i was little, the internet was a place to escape to, a never ending digital world. Now at 23, its a cage, and the escape is back to the beauty of the natural world.
Edit: lmao the amount of people trying to out-old me and each other, it's not a race and there's no prize guys
Hahahahaha you’re still so young
@Trentcast I feel like that just makes the whole thing worse lol, that I can be relatively young and still the world feels like it's compressing and rotting at a pace so fast it makes me feel older
Same age as you and I highly agree, things are truly not the same lol
At 23 lmao!? I'm 35 and remember the early internet days of the late 90's/early 00's when it really was fun. Dial up internet and Napster was where it was at haha. You probably don't even remember a time without UA-cam, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok.
I'm a bit older than you (29), and I feel the same way. I appreciate the way you put it. This happened quite fast. It's interesting someone as young as 23 feels the impact. Glad you understand that the escape from this is in the beautiful real world with real people. I run into many people 20 or so that get trapped like a hamster in the doomscrolling wheel.
I miss being able to use the internet with only 2-3 small ads in the sidenofnthe page.
I hate it so much when they put ads that intentionally have the same design as the site's usual content
I grew up in the 80s~90s, was like a different universe compared to today.
Early 80s baby here. I was raised to live in a world that no longer exists.
@@WilcoxNotreallythereLate 80s baby, but yup I agree. My values, skills, and upbringing were made for a world in the 90s. I fucking hate what humanity/society has turned into
Im sure the people from the 1920s felt the same way in the 80s
@@WilcoxNotreallythere Yes, same - the real pivotal moment was the internet and then smartphones. Things extremely foreign to human evolution for half a million years of vastly in-person social connection among a social species, it's no surprise there's a lot of new struggle with these technologies. Perhaps tribal most of those years, perhaps still so, but certainly not primarily in a digital space.
@@Prawnsacrifice I'm sure - another massive pre-early-digital perspective difference that's more experientially revealed than put into crystaled textbook comparison among history books. A broad perspective difference on life itself.
When someone says that "money don't bring happiness" I used to not believe it. But the corporate world proved me wrong: money makes everything grey.
Money = better products
Ideology = buy the message
Their was an easily identifiable shift in the zeitgeist starting around 2015-2016. Its been hell ever since.
Yeah i always felt like everything went to shit after 2016 even tho iam not old or anything
@@hggpiThis is exactly when everything changed for me too.😢
This is exactly when the world changed for me also.😢
Can anyone of you guys identify any changed variable since 2016 .. that, in your opinion changed it all ?
@@Zenith6000 uh humans?
before 2016 i didnt think a lot about how people are and stuff.
But recently i realized that everyone is anyoing.
Everyone is self centered. Everyone looks down on the others. Everyone believes they are on a moral high ground.
And the only thing people are interested in is reproduction, conflict, food.
They all preach how superior we are to animals but all we do is repeat the same patterns over and over again. Still even the intelligent people i meet dont seem to realize that we are stuck in this endless cycle.
People are afraid to make a change. In my country people think politics is important, yet not a single person tries to make a change. No one has any opinions whatsoever, they are mindless and they recreate what the internet feeds into them. No one tries to have their own oppinions and if you try to be unique then you are the enemy.
No critical thinking, no rationallity. All there is is subjective instinct based emotionally unstable monkeys going around and larping as humans
Back in the day i used to be able to enjoy things without seeing what is behind them.
I was either able to close my eyes or there was nothing else to see
I remember when there was so much variety to the algorithms, no matter what you watched. Now I just keep getting the same types of videos over and over again with nothing new unless I search for it or make a new account that will eventually be rotated with the same things again. I feel like I’ve watched the same things over and over again even if they’re different videos on different channels.
It’s the same with other social media sites. It’s because the algorithms are intentionally designed to keep giving you the same stuff over and over.
About the fast food interiors, it is actually designed to be uncomfortable so you get out faster and they can serve more people
that’s crazy dude. when i was in japan they had signs that said “stay limited to 30 mins” lol
These places are never crowded from what I can see... probably because nobody wants to be inside of them
@@crypticshadows i live here and theres places with signs that even say 10mins. theres so many people here on this small island that people gotta rush. really not the paradise people try and say it is tbh
That sounds like it would be the case but I don't believe it. After all, you wouldn't deliberately tank the atmosphere of your own restaurant. A decision which will reflect in the overall reputation of the chain, which is why I'm convinced this design is purely a continuation of the "minimalism" style that's been floating around every aspect of our lives the past decade.
@@akitaway8791 dude 10 mins is wild 😭
I knew it wasn't just me. Everything feels and looks extremely watered down now
Yeah also been like this for a while now, I knew something was strange
Only 1 min and 11 seconds in. The thing that changed everything and made everything trash was 2008.That recession caused all adults to make only make decisions that resulted in money. That includes everything from tv programming to how the internet was used. Your welcome.
Like remakes of remakes of remakes that switches genders...🙄
@@80hd80hd The contents of the main character's pants are irrelevant unless you've somehow convinced yourself that you're going to get into them at some point. Is that of particular concern to you regarding fictional people?
Same thing with the Pokemon games lol.
Back then the Pokemon sprites are vividly colorful, but after the transition to 3D the colors are now washed-up dull. Even their "improved" cries were now garbled mess.
And I guess I could say the same in movies, cartoons, etc.
It’s definitely not childhood nostalgia. People of all ages, teens to 60s years old, all say the same thing. Around 2015-2017…something changed. Movies, video games, social media…it all feels so lifeless now.
I can confirm. I’m definitely one of the younger people advocating for change and haven’t really seen a lot of change from the late 90s to mid 2000s firsthand, but there is just something so.. genuine about it compared to today.
In 2014 (look up what happened in Ukraine that year), the USA and Western European governments decided that they will control all narratives, citizens be damned. NATO said future wars will be won via tweets. Google, Twitter, Facebook all are compromised by alphabet agencies. So yes, all generations see the same time-line changes.
I think I know why, but if I say it...I'll be crucified.
It's worth noting that the Y2K era (and till late 00s) was a one of a kind where everything was 'cool'. Everything's bland now, but it was also relatively bland before that time. Think of the 1970s for example.
I'm so relieved to hear other people say this. I've thought the same thing for some time now, but not many people I spoke to about it seemed to agree.
Not only are the most popular websites becoming boring and sanitized, but they are also becoming increasingly restrictive. You used to be able to say whatever you wanted on UA-cam, as long as you did not threaten anyone or post anything hateful or pornographic. Now you can't even criticize people (especially famous people) without getting your comment erased 15 seconds after you posted it.
That's probably not why the comment was deleted. UA-cam has a stupid comment auto moderation that deletes comments for the stupidest of things and some words will get your comment deleted. Also links or mentioning your own channel.
What's truly depressing is that generations before ours (I was born in '93) are nostalgic of a childood spent outside, playing freely with friends in uncontrolled environments. Our generation is mostly nostalgic of video games, tv shows and internet aesthetics that remind them of when they were little.
i was born in 88 and want that. Youre speaking for yourself. I was too poor when i was a kid to have video games.
As a Gen-Z myself, I often feel disgusted at others I see on the internet who seem to purely get their nostalgia from a computer. I used to think that way too until I had realized just living life is way shorter than it would seem and especially since I'm experiencing a supposedly very memorable time for my life, I want to be in the physical presence of others as much as possible because having a majority of my world be digital feels like a waste of living.
Yes and for our generation it mostly had to do with stranger danger and the way neighborhoods were built in the 80s and 90s. We were dependent on parents to drive us anywhere but the N64/Gamecube/PC was always available at home. I remember wanting to go out and do things with other kids but there were only two kids my age who I could safely bike to. So we would just stay inside playing GTA and Halo.
Boomer capitalism @@rebelroar78
@@rebelroar78What people are forgetting here is this was also when helicopter parenting was on the rise. Sometime in the 80’s, things like missing children began to pop up on the news. Parenting started to change after that.
What was previously allowing kids to roam and bike miles from town was suddenly guardians and some parents constantly watching the kids. Now we have laws that punish the parents if they so much as allow the kids to wander off somewhere.
You can't gatekeep anything on the internet, not even internet itself. First it starts to get popular, then becomes mainstream, then it becomes commercialized heavy and in the end nothing good remains of it.
Exactly.
I remember UA-cam comments and comments/messages on Facebook and you could say literally anything you want. Now even if there's no profanity or politics in your comment, your comment will disappear on UA-cam and you'll get banned for a week on Facebook. There's also double standards on Facebook as well where certain groups can get away with saying anything towards another group
@@finkamain1621 Yeah, it's called 'reality.' Crack open a history book -- hell, even read the headlines -- people attack and censor each-other because they have different imaginary friends (read: gods) or, even worse, one group thinks someone was just a human prophet instead of the son of their imaginary friend. This still happens _today._ Stop acting like meatspace was ever any better than cyberspace, they've both been garbage since the start.
you know your username really describes it best, i feel like i'm in the wrong world, the wrong timeline. things shouldn't have gone like this
No. Gatekeeping works. That's how u keep the ideology driven sleeper feds from making ur interest all woke.
Time to take back our freedom.
Fkk "the message"
You were a kid in the 2000s? Imagine how those of us born in the early 80s or before feel.
As a fellow Gen-Xer I agree! I think for me late '80s early '90s was the most promising with technology and the birth of the www was crazy, very colorful, loud and full of promise.
As one of those people I can honestly say it's depressing. Not like the 80s and 90s were the epitome of ideal life but growing older and watching this soulless, corporate Thing encase us in shiny nothingness is depressing. Its heartening to see that younger generations do sense it too though, so maybe there's small hope there.
OLD!!!!! 😂😂😂
Yeah I was born in 84. The first almost 20 years of my life were pretty full of wonder and adventure. This second half has been pretty fucking lame. Me and my girlfriend are trying to keep digital devices away from our 4 year old son. I think the digital revolution has a lot to do with our fragmentation and increase in anti social attitudes. And 9/11. Man, life just seemed so full of promise, optimism and hope and watching those towers come down at 17 really did a number on me even as a non American.
Yep. I was born in '80, and we first got access to the 'net in '94. It felt like the future. Adventure around every corner, with hope for the future. Now, it's a bland, soulless, cookie cutter corporate hellscape. This is what we get when every decision is made in committee for the purpose of maximizing revenue.
this video made me miss being a child. I was born in the 2000s and was on roblox at a very young age, as per usual, i lied about my age to get full access to the site with no parental restrictions. I made my roblox account in the year 2011, the UI design was so fun, recminiscent of Facebook in that era, it had games and character customisation, everything about it felt fun, it wasnt for the sake of an advertisement or sponsorship it was just a game with more games inside. urgh. i miss being a child.
You wanna talk about boring design? Modern cars. They are almost always ugly as fuck.
Every single car looks the same and I hate it. Just a cookie cutter stamping them all into the same look with even more planned deterioration/obsolescence
Oh man, every rav4, crv, corolla is brutally bland. It is nice though that things like the ineos grenadier or emira exist, but they're never affordable
I was going to comment about cars. There is no originality anymore! Everything looks relatively the same. It's a sad time
Phones as well
yea. the 1961 lincoln continental has by far the best car design
As a designer I think minimalist approaches come together with a ever-shrinking attention span everyone has. Both software-wise, or with real life products, people nowadays can't handle anything more than a bite-size of information because they consume too much on all fronts and got used to it.
Makes sense. U want something that catches peoples attention, less info is better. The same for transcripts/articles and even videos. People get bored super fast today.
Definitely this. With social media being endless, mindless scrolling these days, most things are gonna be skipped over. So of course companies won't put in the effort. There's no point. Minimalism also saves them money.
The world become more commercialized at a faster rate than ever in the past 15 years
no just the internet and only because it was invented recently. all the good stuff he talks about in this video is still either advertising or a product designed purely to make money
@@weirdwalrus5757 Exactly, he even admits that most large media franchises in the 80's were made to be commercialized. I think the biggest change is how people are less willing to buy into that sort of stuff today, likely because we are beginning to realize that companies have more rights than us.
@@TanyaKatherine nah the movies office space and fight club came out in 1999 and what your talking about is their central themes. Near everyone in this comment section are the generation that all the shiny logos and mcdonalds architecture were meant for, children in the 2000s. They are unable to see that these things have moved on without them.
@@weirdwalrus5757 FFS you haters that are paid to be on these videos to discredit people are just as bad as the world you live in now! Enjoy it! 🤣
@@weirdwalrus5757 You're a paid troll!
'Don't be sad it's over, smile it happened' - be happy we had an amazing childhood with the media out there. I just feel sorry for kids nowadays.
I was born in 2007, so I don't remember much
But from what I do remember
MAGICAL
Flappy bird, good children's tv, my PlayStation 2
We really did have it all
Now look at it
I fucking hate minimalism, I hate how corporate and fake and expensive and soulless things have become. I hate how nobody tries to create actual art and be creative, they just jump on whatever drama is trending and make yet another commentary thing, they become "influencers"... things have gotten desperate driving the worst aspects of consumer culture and money-grubbing, corporate greed, and a complete dismissal of creativity, originality or authenticity and I loathe that. Look at McDonalds as a visual representation....
I’m starting to think no one tries anymore because they’re afraid to take risks. Why risk making money? That’s their mindset..
There are, fortunately, still real artists. Real people who have found their craft and are trying passionately to make something beautiful. The problem is that there are less of them, and they get drowned out by the sea of those who fake talent.
It's not minimalism. It's myopic nihilistic capitalism in the name of fiduciary duty to the shareholders, despite the fact that it isn't even optimal for making money long term (Just look at all of the franchises that Disney ran into the ground in the name of short term profits and tell me that was optimal for shareholders or Boeing where designing a replacement for the 737 that could have actually fit the new higher bypass engines would have been less expensive than what happened).
The problem is a management class that lacks specific knowledge of the industries that they lead, but are empowered to micromanage the people who do have the knowledge.
Ideas don't matter it's who you know.
@@hypothalapotamus5293I wish I could thumbs up your comment 1000 times. Perfectly said
I remember when my MySpace page would take almost five minutes to load because of all the sparkly bits I put on it! I was so proud!
Woooof😮
Have you heard of SpaceHey by any chance?
@@supersmilyface1 its bad, not worth it
I remember getting a floppy disk with 10 hours of prepaid internet. I was trying to look up porn and it took 5-10 minutes to load a single image.
@@supersmilyface1 whats that
Nothing is for the family anymore. Everything is just a business. It’s sad.
and on the flipside, EVERYTHING is for the family. nothing can be too explicit or horrible or morbid anymore, for the sake of brand compatibility with advertisers. adult content is being pushed away from the central internet because it isn't advertisable (i am not counting stuff like hazbin hotel and smiling friends as adult content. those are still cartoons that just say cuss words.) and creativity is suffering due to it. human sexuality is both an unstoppable force and an immovable object in art, and pretty much 90% of 'desire' in modern big media is limited to lingering gazes, and kisses with light music in the background, and then more intense kissing, and then a tasteful camera pan and a cut to both characters lying in bed after. that's it. that's what sexuality is nowadays in media. if you're really crazy, you might see an uncensored breast in a scene where two drugged-up supermodels pretend to want each other. that's IT.
we as people need to not shy away from it, 'it', which i am not even calling by name because i'm scared youtube will hide my comment if i do. that's how scared brands are of it nowadays. it's a totally natural part of life that everyone will have to face and struggle with at some point, something so universal and understood by everyone, even if they're repulsed by it. we're just pretending like it doesn't exist because some company somewhere deemed it inappropriate. it's insane when you think about it.
@@capitanice6353We get it, dude. You're addicted to porn. 😂🤦🏿♂️
@@capitanice6353 ...Did you just say that Hazbin Hotel _isn't_ adult content, and justify that because it's animated? You might want to watch a little something called _"Urotsukidoji."_ Actually, you might not want to, but I've already said it and the fact that it's not in English means UA-cam won't shadowblock this post, so I'm gonna commit just to prove a point about how stupid YT's shadowblocking is.
...Huh, this went *_way_* off the rails.
@@CoralCopperHead no i did not. i have been an artist who loves cartoons since i was 11 and i respect the art of animation as a medium with my whole heart. i think hazbin isn't really adult content because it's ideas are juvenile, not because it's animated.
hazbin says cuss words, and they talk about sex all the time, but so do kids on the playground. are they adults because they do it? no. hazbin's ideas, plots, characters, and character arcs are simple. character designs on the show are complex, not because each piece of them tells a story and how they are as a person, but because it's eye-catching and looks cool. and besides base, base level symbolism (card suit patterns on the gambling character), it's not doing much.
an adult show doesn't HAVE to be this super complex, deep, psycho-analytical puzzle to be an adult show, but it has to prove that it has something that kids shows don't, that there is something in the material that people with undeveloped brains either don't grasp yet or aren't allowed to see. for the latter, it's easy to make a show rated R by saying fuck a few times and popping some boobs out, but it's hard to make it something that kids can't really relate to like the former.
if you took out the adult bits, the cuss words and the sex jokes and aired it on cartoon network, it'd probably be a smash hit. the show is an adult show but it doesn't DO anything with it that it couldn't do if it had an E or PG13 label. are there any arcs or characters that would need to be cut because they're too complex for kids and tweens, NOT just because they have inappropriate things attached to them (i.e. their design or personality)? angel dust wouldn't be angel dust by name and looks, but his arc of looking good and acting confident while secretly being insecure and lonely would still be intact. (my little pony also did this near exact character arc with diamond tiara in 2015. it wouldn't be groundbreaking)
this isn't new, people have always been trying to market cartoons this way, by showing how shocking it can be to see fun bright characters saying crazy things and humping one another. they tend to flop because once that wears off, and it's just the integrity of the show itself carrying the episodes, people start to hate it. think bojack horseman, as a start. why did it succeed and things like 'the prince' fail?
anyways, no. i love animation, i respect the hell out of the skill it took to make this show, i even like some of the designs, i just don't like the use of 'adult show' as this weird argument point people use for both the fact that it's both too simple (writing wise) and too complex (visually).
@@capitanice6353 i wondered why so many kids watched what was supposed an 'adult' show, thanks for explaining that
We live in a late-stage capitalist dystopia. This is the reason you're feeling this way.
Speak for yourself.
@@tias.6675 Graphic designers have been trained off of by AI and its more profitable for companies to let them all go and just use a sterilized form of their essence through automated generation. This has coincided with the ultraminimalism described in this video. I don't know how this can be described as anything other than late stage capitalism, stripping out the human soul for profit.
I don't know if people are ready to hear an explanation of how the decadence of creativity we once basked in was only ever going to be temporary and that the findings in this video were an inevitability. When you have a society that places the moneymakers at its apex, eventually, the essence of humanity is going to be harvested and physically carved out from that society to maximize profit for the moneymakers.
@@savagej4y241 Unfortunately you're exactly right.
Communist 'try not to blame literally everything on capitalism' challenge (impossible)
I’m a Gen z, 24 , and my dad is Gen x, and compared to where I was at my dad’s age, I feel ancient. My dad felt stoked and excited and loved media and didn’t feel “I miss way back in my day when stuff was better” until he was in his EARLY 40s. Now me, at 24, feel like how he felt in his early 40s about the world, but I’m only 24. I’m still “the youth” and yet I am already looking back like “I miss the old days and now the world sucks”.
It’s INSANE the way time has changed and it seems like the world ages 3x as fast.
Edit: I feel like Gen z was born on the edge of two different worlds, the old world and the new world. We saw the end of the old world in childhood, and crossed over into the new one as late teens.
I’m a millennial, I was born in 1988, I felt the same way by 24. It’s just what it’s like to get older. The novelty of everything wears off a lot quicker than you assume
Yes this. That’s how I’ve been feeling. I think this is what has caused a big part of me as an individual and even as societies for us to navigate life, socializing and community with over the top detachment
What is it with these age ranges? It must be locational or something, where I live, you're not a millennial unless you were born after 2000. As far as I'm concerned Gen Z is still just teens to toddlers. How can my town have fallen so far behind in these age rankings; Gen Alpha hasn't even been born yet by the standards over here, or is it that the big cities have just pushed the dates back causing people who were once considered Gen X to now be millennials?
@@flameofthephoenix8395 no, in the US it’s based on when the baby boom ended after WWII. Boomers end in ‘64, then gen x, then millennials starting in ‘82, then gen z starting in ‘97 (it might be ‘96, I’ve seen both), and idk when they started gen alpha though, sometime in the 2010s.
Millennials were called Gen Y when I was growing up then they changed it.
@@ccannon1 Yeah, I know that Millenials are Gen Y, and what you're saying about the boomer and Gen X is right, but the Millennials started in 2000. Of course, they didn't really start in 2000 that's just what we go by over here in my town/city/geographical thing.
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An example of modern blandness not intended by RatPatrick: The widespread use of 'consume' (a broad, clinical term) in place of 'read', 'watch', or 'listen'. Gets my attention every time I hear it and, in recent years, I hear it a lot.
yeah the words "consume" and "content" sound depressing when you notice it
Reminds me of the way everything is a “franchise” or an “IP” now. Like for example, when Horizon: Forbidden West was coming out, I already saw people saying “the Horizon franchise” as if there’s now an expectation that everything has to have merch and a media franchise attached to it.
I balked at the introduction of the term "DLC"
then everyone started talking about "assets"
I was so excited back then to download a new character
downloading "assets" or "content" is bland language for something that should POP
I hate that word so much, all I visualize is a trough with pigs eating grey slime
@@bennettcarlson3974 i feel like a pig eating grey slime whenever i click on youtube shorts
being bold and aggressive was praised in the 90s. 2000s was 90s on steroids. Being safer and bland started to come back in 2010s
Games, movies and cartoons used to be great in the 90s and 2000s too. So this means we'll never get a remake of the Sims 2. Kind of sad
Exactly the 2000s started with South Park
That's what I've been saying to those who ask this question. It was in the beginning of the 2010s.
I despise the saying "stay safe" - it became a propaganda phrase, and I don't understand why no one understands that. I didn't hear people saying it much at all until the media started trying to condition people to accept mandates, sense hour ship (which I can't even spell correctly anymore, because you-know-what will happen), and other restrictions on our freedoms.
Plus, "stay safe" assumes that the person hearing it is already safe, which is quite an assumption.
But mostly it's that an obsession with safety has historically always led to disaster, and it's a very very low aspiration, sort of like saying, "I hope you have a day that isn't completely awful."
nope, 2000s were not 90s steroids, 2000s is where all started to be soft, i'm from the 70s i saw that
It's because of the current social climate and the fact that corporations are terrified of offending anyone because it might hurt their finances. It's far easier and more profitable to just be as bland and non-inflammatory as possible. Also, they probably realized that the less actual foot traffic in the restaurant they have, the more money they save by not needing as many employees. I noticed just the other day that McDonalds here where I live has officially now replaced the cashiers with signs saying to order on the kiosks.
you know this is why i still love the internet, its still a place where i can find videos like this, makes me feel a whole lot better knowing im not the only one thinking and feeling EXACTLY like this! I recently fell down a rabbit hole of watching videos like this and videos appreciating the old web, and it inspired me so much i made my own neocities website and started using my phone purely for anwsering messages, and for real my life is a thousand times better, having your own little corner on the web that you can fully customize feels so exciting, away from all the commercialized and professionalized fake shit everywhere else. Seeing everyones unique style and browsing web rings and reading peoples blogs and galleries feels so much more meaningful and exciting than just endlessly scrolling into the abyss (where specifically on instagram, i shit you not, every third post is a sponsored ad, and every 5th post is from someone you dont even follow and on twitter every post is essentially engagement bait and bots). Returning to personal blogs is one way to make at least one corner of the internet ours again!
It's definitely grounding to know we can be self-aware about the changes happening. Sometimes it's nice to be able to look around and go "You seein' this?" and not just have someone act all gaslighty and say "No, now shut up"
@@GreyOatmeal exactly!!!!
I feel like we should just make the Internet ours again
Those videos wouldn't exist if it wasn't a problem.
Now I have UA-cam 2003 nostalgia 😢.
Customized profiles, music group hangouts, shit felt more free
While I do miss the wild west era of the internet what I miss about old websites like youtube and heck even Myspace is that you could customize your profile and on youtube you can make friends there and message them via youtube comments or privately
Its how I met some of my closet friends that I'm still friends with decades later
God I miss 2000s - early 2010s youtube heck I miss taht era of the internet
Damn. You brought me back man. I miss the custom backgrounds on the channels too.
Well, let’s make the Internet hours again!
I made friends on an online gaming forum in 2009 and some of us still talk to each other to this day. We were basically kids back then. The craziest part is I was a groomsman in one of thems wedding last year.
It's hard to find people like you and connect with, especially if you used the internet and were into niche hobbies and video games, especially so back in pre-modern internet. I sincerely hope young adults and gen z teens these days can find a sense of community and promising friendships.
The old internet helped me get through the toughest times in highschool. Flash games, research journals, entertainment, forums, it was all there. When all of that faded out during my higher education days I lost most of my childhood, the internet became a dull & barren landscape of corpos and grifters wanting to turn a quick buck.
All those research journals too faded away. My old textbooks cite to dead links bought by make-up companies or expired outright. Research which proved vital to aspiring students fell in place of centralised forums where a bunch of idiots *or* a bunch of idiots in a news room spread misinformation that turn people against each other.
The internet used to be a place where you could query anything and find the answers for it. Now, Google Bard attempts fix an issue they themselves created, except all Bard does is cross wires and makes shit up. When I want to find one thing it takes an hour, when it used to take a few clicks.
Here's a big reason for these issues: a lack of respect for creative and knowledgeable professionals.
I went to school for graphic design but turns out, hardly anyone wants real designs nowadays. Businesses go for the cheapest option that looks somewhat professional which would be plain, mostly white, overly simplified and boring.
I leaned more on the illustrative, colorful (tastefully) and creative side of design. Problem is, it takes a lot of time to make these but the boring, streamlined, and copy pasted designs take like an hour to make.
This has been an issue for all creative jobs. Writing, designing, and even art
And in the past couple years, people are turning to AI for a quick logo because what it vomits out can actually pass for one... As if the arts weren't undervalued enough.
I used to do freelance video work back in the day and this hits the nail right on the head. You can pitch creative ideas to a client all you want, but in the end they always want the same simple and bland presentation that everyone else uses and they will even tell you as much. "Make it look like theirs."
I would actually get complaints that videos I edited weren't simple enough. It was very unrewarding work aside from being paid obviously.
yeah and then you have digital music replacing live music making the pay less desirable than it once was for the people working harder than ever in the industry! Then there's the artists who make it big with unique songs and then once they sign with a record label it all becomes generic and "popular" and people say the best music was back then when people felt free to say whatever came to mind, and they're right! The music isn't as genuine anymore because the businesses that control the music aren't genuine just very generic - whatever can make the most money with the least amount of resources...it's sad honestly and overwhelming. We all need a break from the bs that we're fed constantly.
Yeah, definitely an issue in all mediums. I work in games and everytime I hear people complaining about bland predatory AAA games, I point them to plenty of fun, creative, one cost indies.
Of course they'll complain about bad graphics or "too expensive" for a $20 game (as they buy $30 skins in Fortnite or whatever) or complain about their backlog (while they go back to GTA shark cards) and so on. Voice actors go on strike over AI and they defend the bots because "voice acting isn't important", while they praise Sony's games for their single player narratives.
Actions speak louder than words. There are some that simply can't tell the difference, but other simply want to pretend they support developers.
You said it all in one word: professional. Everyone is so broken, cut off, and scared to feel or display authentic emotions, that they hide behind a mask of professionalism. "I'm not scared to stand out, I'm professional". "I don't have a hard time viewing customers with empathy, I'm professional". "It's not dumbed down, it's not bland, it looks professional".
Opened TikTok, first thing was an ad. Scrolled ten posts, saw SIX ADVERTISEMENTS. thanks for the cold splash of water on my face, Im deleting everything
This video makes me even more depressed. I was a child in the late eighties and into the 90s and seeing how unappealing the world has become is just awful
I’m sure most people are pissed off about this so it’s only a matter of time before people start seriously rebelling against this soul sucking bullshittery
Same :/
We just need to create the colorful stuff ourselves
I saw another person comment this already but I just wanted to bring it to your attention: we should go back to smaller communities and blogs on here instead of having these massive sites where everyone meets everyone and not always for the best!
Yup, totally agree with you
11:55 They literally don't want you in their establishment. Once you pay for your food, your presence is a cost center. Every aspect of the lobby is designed to keep you in there a minimum amount of time so they can make room for the next person, achieving higher guest turnaround in a smaller space. Some McDonald's intentionally tilt their seats forward fifteen degrees because it's very uncomfortable, but not easy to notice, specifically so you won't "get comfortable" and stay in the dining room after you eat.
if theres any positive from things being bland, its that its only a matter of time for new shit to hit the mainstream. People already complain about this so its bound to change
It hasnt worked like that for decades.
@@eightcoins4401 Yep. It's hard to explain but I really think it's only going to get worse unless the political and economic environments drastically change. As mentioned in the video, corpoes just want to appeal to the widest range of people and they want to minimize costs (maximize profits) so that means simplifying and restricting everything to the minimum and removing the human element.
people's dopamine is fried, we won't see the next good thing because psychologically we aren't prime to look for it.
Things have been bland for at least the last decade!!
@@Bristecom but few people were complaining until recently
I feel this video to my core. I thoroughly despise most aspects of the modern age.
The hypercommercialization and minimalization of the internet was caused by a tragically very simple thing, really: The corporations that made the internet go 'round realized that there was vastly more money to be made from harnessing and exploiting the users than from competing to make bold new creations.
There's no longer a need to make creative, innovative products. The users, viewers, and audiences have BECOME the products.
Corporations DIDNT always. The internet was a post military, prediminatly academic influenced world. Early fb showed this the most.
The internet became problem, because we became the problem.
Yeah, unfortunately it's now impossible to fix. Humans are just naturally greedy, and now we're just stuck as we are.
Until people understand just how screwed they are and maybe make a stand.
But no, that's too optimistic
@@ShinzouKatsune Don't know if I agree with that. In the early 90s, sure, but by the time Facebook came around, commercialization was well underway.
@@mantha6912 let me say this
Thanks 2008 economic crisis wth a writing on the wall warned us all about the direction of the internet for the next generations and decades ......
All thanks to 2008 economic crisis which caused ppl and the industry to care about moneymakers more than their humanitarian morals and also the web had become costly and things need to be watered down in order for the industry to survive financialy , after 2000s the government started to side wth corporations and be confortable wth the internet and the more corporations cared about not financially struggling cuz of the good things the more they relied on greed to become greedy monsters and make everything suck the world always had bad things and problematic but and ditch trying to be secure competing to create new innovative stuffs to can help humanity when u can harness more data and exploit humanity unconsiousness s' negligence at it's finest which is why and how corporate greed returned and explains how the internet got standardized watered down to be soulless and corporate it's bcuz our greed are the problem , a broken system beyond repair , society being wrongly entertained by evil satan , all thanks to 2008 not just the internet but the whole industry , companys, tv programs , reality tv , how we use the web , food , sports , music & movie entertainment industry .
Watering down to current bland era
2010 - 2013
The web became more streamlined and centralized Also democratization of mobile devices
Rise of social medias
Birth of subscription based stuffs 😃
2013 - 2016
From streamlined and abondon y2k style cuz 2008 crisis marked they ppl will no longer be optimistic about the future for things to get the job done and the golden age of graphics & design will soon come to an end and be replaced by flat designs less fleshy but still somewhat eye catching but not the same cuz it's minimalist don't worry it will get worse 2016 onwards 😀😐😬
2016 - 2020
The internet became less and less diverse everything start to be carbon copy of themselves and oh
Boy 2016 elections boosted the internet to be more suckier and standardized and 2 more centralized , corporations got bored of the old form of online communication as web forums so they made sure social medias are no longer primitive so there job is to kill oldnet and ruin society enter the new form of online communication replace everything form the 90s and 2000s linkrot , the web started to become ultramoderated and commercialized & centralized = less customization , no swearing , internet started to become slowly artificial and less real which resulted into the rise of scambots / bots farming , and A.i being human wannabe , metaverse etc.. thing got worse . And COVID completely destroyed the physical World wth lockdown the world changed a second time so current generation can be "brainrot and bad problematic " thanks to social medias, phones , staying home 24h online
After COVID things get worse 🤧😅😬🤧
2020 - 2022
The internet is no longer compact , the web is corporate and soulless now , it's like we settled for utilitarian Cold and realist bland we don't care about feeling optimistic cuz all those humanity crisis have made ppl feel lees and less optimistic and more scared until we stop caring about the web and the world being watered down , less fleshy , boring , bland , soulless now the Industry dumbed down into 🤧🤧🤮
" here u go eat ur burger and get out there's nothing exciting about it this Is a restaurant we have food you want go to a fun place we don't sell fun cuz it makes us poor goodie too shoes when we can be rich and careless about rewriting history that will fit our financial success instead of struggle and artificial intelligence tech now ,will do it at ou place "
Still the same outside of the food industry.
2023 present
Facebook is mainly ads now and a bunch of pages that you don't even follow always pop up. Almost no one I know on there ever posts and a lot of them just use it for messenger
Things used to be everywhere. Now they're all in the same place. No more mystery or exploration. Nothing can just be its own thing, it has to be everything.
well said. the sense of adventure to life really has to be consciously pursued
This is also applicable to Hollywood/Game publishers insisting on in everything. We used to have true diversity - we had movies and games that could be their own “thing.”
One of the most popular game series in history has a woman as the main character…Portal and Portal 2 by Valve. Did anyone give a crap about that back then? No.
Now everything has to be a melting pot, which leads to forgettable media.
Took the words out of my mouth. I say that all the time
*shout out to Tom from MySpace, he was the Zuckerberg we needed*
But we got the worm instead
Bullet, to be more accurate
Don't ever try to compare Tom to Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is a reason for the downfall of the internet.
@@AGuyUwU I thought it was Elon
@@spiderfrider64 Elon is the savior of free speech on Twitter rather than its destroyer nor the internet's destroyer.
It's because we're in a much worse economic and societal situation which is nearing depression than anyone is even acknowledging yet marked by record corporate greed. It's honestly so much worse than the Great Recession because there is ZERO trust in society anymore and everyone is more disconnected than ever.
I can agree with this sentiment.... everything now is so damn BORING!!!! Give us more color, more exciting stuff like we had in the 90's and Early 2000's. Bring back those wild and fun commercials we had, where kids were excited about that new hip video game coming out, or having fun with that new creative food product, bring back THE FUN!
And speaking of commercials, Toys “R” Us used SORA, an AI video generator for their new commercial and I extremely dislike it. I saw people post their older commercials in comparison and all it made me even sadder.
@@blackstar044I just seen it, It looks so uncanny. Screw this AI Crap!
@@blackstar044 I thought Toys R Us went bankrupt?
@@eightcoins4401same here
@@eightcoins4401 i think that was another company of toys? if not, they're probably still around in some countries
I was born in 82. Back in the 80s and 90s, the world was so colorful that it was almost overwhelming. And we loved it.
I was born in 82 myself. I remember the old Trapper Keepers, the art style on everything was wild.."post modern". Somehow we moved into a shadow realm of banal blandness, sterility everywhere. I have tapestries and medieval stuff all over my 1930s farm house. My home is full of rich colors and eccentric items. The best is my smoking room in my basement with an old Sansui record player and a ton of vinyl. Can't imagine living in one of those museum style houses!
@@Ziegfried82 I call them "Ikea houses". They look so bland and minimalist. I wonder if today´s minimalism is a trend that comes from a bad economy trying to feel less miserable by having things that look good but not necessarily are, like an expensive Apple device.
I remember going to Chinatown in Sydney as a teen in the late 90s and being amazed at how much.... STUFF there was and how cheap it was. Getting all the rare 80s and 90s anime movies/series. It felt electrifying.
born in 82 myself. As kid I'd turn on the TV as soon as I got up in the morning to get my weekend toon fix. Occasionally I got up too early and would catch some fitness ladies in classic 80s lycra suits, full of energy smiling and counting down their good morning routine. They were like a joybundle of energy and color, neon pink, so damn infectious. Got into fitness and lifting weights later on in life but never encountered such enthusiasm. Today there's always the same 2-3 variations of a Karen in the gym, it's mostly about aggression and pulling through, dead serious business.
I think it's all part of the plan honestly
here is what happened, We slowly relpaced cable TV with the internet, we replaced Computers with smartphones and social gatherings with Facebook, we gave up on what made the 2000s well... the 2000s, then when we got older we realized we shouldn't have done that, tiktok is the perfect formula of how to make everything shallow and stupid and we all know it.
Not really. Cable tv was strict controlled information, strict controlled entertainement, and 40% advertisements.
Meanwhile Instagram and UA-cam both stole the ticktock formula to promote on their own services, of which the original vines were actually prime 2010's social media posting.
People need to stop getting paid for posting online. The best of all online works were always done for passion, not put on a schedule so they could profit and pay rent
@@JohnDoe-kp5dmCable TV was always this way. People just didn’t realize until they got older.
some people didn't gather back then too. Even back in the 1800s people were alone on the farm.
@@Kevfactor we went from being alone in a farm, to being alone in a box with talking to people that doesn't exist in the same room with us
@@Dream_scape47 people were alone back then though! I’d say we still see my people too with the way we travel. We just don’t really get close to em
A lot of people go into posting online now with the intent of earning revenue, I think it's great that we can do that but it was a pipe dream even just a decade ago & that sort of attitude comes across in what a lot of people are making & posting. Especially with whole teams working on channels & what have you. I think it's important to remember why we create or post in the first place & hold onto some of that self expression, it gets a bit lost when you pass that through an editor that's only doing it because you're paying them, etc etc
Mewing
Agreed. I will never try to monetize my channel.
This
@@TheLexikitty ew 0/10 chin
@@TheLexikitty small chin
I’m “you’re a nerd if you use the internet” years old.
I gave a thumbs up because you know when to use you're.
I'm "five-and-quarter floppy is new advanced technology" years old.
We also went from "You're a nerd if you play video games" to "I'm a journalist and here's why gamers are bad people because they want to see Chun Li's thighs"
@@finkamain1621 - Never forget what they took from you.
It's all the same cause everything is owned by like 5 actual companies. They don't need to compete anymore
And those five companies are completely infested and subverted by communists who have always wanted to flatten out the world and make everything gray, because they are resentful of God and their own father for the crime of creating them. It was a clever tactic, I'll give them that
@@qoph1988 It’s now around four companies who own around 90 percent or more of the media.
Ever wonder why everything feels the same? This is why.
@@qoph1988 It’s closer to four mega corporations who own 90 percent or more of the media. They are why everything is bland.
The older I get the more I think my depressive episode during early adulthood was less about there being something wrong with me, and more about me noticing how awful things were becoming that didn't need to be that way. Now, almost everyone I speak to gives me that same impression.