I gotta say that it’s pretty fucking refreshing to see this “celebrities need to stay out of politics” being rejected after it was more or less accepted in the 00s. Reality is pivoting faster than Fox is as old tactics die.
I’ve also noticed that the condescendingly polite subtle insults are starting to get old and recognized as just normal insults because the subtlety has disappeared.
Also the “ask questions” tactic from How to Win Friends and Influence People is getting more push back rather than leading people to different conclusions, though that one isn’t as nice to see because when that worked, it was usually for a good reason but it just being dismissed means one less way people in disagreement can come to agree. But it is an interesting evolution in the way we communicate and interact that I’ve noticed lately.
Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
This site definitely isn’t representative of much if you’re using it to speak to larger cultural trends or something. It’s definitely not an indicator of those.
I have a theory of my own though. I think that pop culture is dying as a thing in general. I think social media platforms are more widely recognized as the societal ill that they are, broadcast / cable TV is largely dead, movies are moving from the cinemas to streaming services in record time, Internet streaming apps killed the radio star, etc. etc.
Everyone tunes into their own shows, their own music, their own movies, their own books, their own cultural experiences, their own news, and even their own realities.
I think we’re living through an era where mainstream popular culture is getting devoured by software platforms and disparate experiences and the output is more and more that everyone’s in the “long tail” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail) being exposed only to things that sit in personalized niches.
I gotta say that it’s pretty fucking refreshing to see this “celebrities need to stay out of politics” being rejected after it was more or less accepted in the 00s. Reality is pivoting faster than Fox is as old tactics die.
I’ve also noticed that the condescendingly polite subtle insults are starting to get old and recognized as just normal insults because the subtlety has disappeared.
Also the “ask questions” tactic from How to Win Friends and Influence People is getting more push back rather than leading people to different conclusions, though that one isn’t as nice to see because when that worked, it was usually for a good reason but it just being dismissed means one less way people in disagreement can come to agree. But it is an interesting evolution in the way we communicate and interact that I’ve noticed lately.
Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
This site definitely isn’t representative of much if you’re using it to speak to larger cultural trends or something. It’s definitely not an indicator of those.
I have a theory of my own though. I think that pop culture is dying as a thing in general. I think social media platforms are more widely recognized as the societal ill that they are, broadcast / cable TV is largely dead, movies are moving from the cinemas to streaming services in record time, Internet streaming apps killed the radio star, etc. etc.
Everyone tunes into their own shows, their own music, their own movies, their own books, their own cultural experiences, their own news, and even their own realities.
I think we’re living through an era where mainstream popular culture is getting devoured by software platforms and disparate experiences and the output is more and more that everyone’s in the “long tail” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail) being exposed only to things that sit in personalized niches.