There's so many choices now with streaming services that it can be nice to have something pick a movie and just play it for you without having to weigh all the options and decide yourself between 100 movies
Mentally Ill Whales dumping revenue into games.
It's why videogames as such don't really exist anymore in the bigger budgets. Everything's just a storefront for people with brains akin to a crackhead's.
I literally can't even imagine anyone under the age of 30 sitting down and watching regular tv/cable.
I don't think they can even conceptualize doing that activity whatsoever.
There's just too much streaming content and social media overload for them to unglue from that for any length of time because if they do they'll be out of the loop and won't know the latest memes, phrases and so on...
Shortform content has won. The masses are basically just above the gold fish in brain capacity and intellect. Its over for Television & Film. TikTok won.
Yeah, zoomers and late millennials are so ADHD and incapable of focusing that they can't watch things that are longer than 5 minutes unless it's some homosexual essay video the hidden socialist message and lore of Donkey Kong Country.
commercials are everything now. i firmly believe that if there was a way to make you just sit and watch commercials, they wouldn't even bother with shows any more.
I have some old shows from the 70s and 80s. A 1hr show was anywhere from 45 to 50 minutes of the actual program. 12-15 minutes of ads per hour; 20-25% of the run time.
Looking at S24 of L&O SVU, the average run time (minus commercials) is down to 41 minutes per episode. Figure time for opening/closing credits, fade in/fade out, DUN DUN every few minutes, there's maybe 35-37 minutes of actual show there, tops.
That's a solid 1/3 of the hour-long slog of that already-boring piece of shit show that's nothing but commercials.
Why would anyone subject themselves to that?
I haven't watched it for like 7 years now. I don't even know why I still have it.
Radio is even worse. Used to be 5 or 8 or 10 songs, and a couple minutes of commercial. Now it's 1 song and 5 minutes of commercial.
I don't know when we, as a society, decided that everybody has to be advertised to everywhere at all times, but it's seriously fricked a lot of shit up.
The issue is that modern commercials are all fricking gay. I hate that every company has subscribed to the idea of "we're not selling a product, we're selling a lifestyle."
Hulu is the fricking worst with its ads. It's normal for them to cut early rather than at the show's designated commercial break points then it completely throws off the ad timer so when it ends the show is back in progress and you've missed about a minute or two >just pirate
if I could I would, but several shows I watch don't get uploaded to torrent sites or if they do they're horribly encoded >1080 quality for a 40 minute show >size is over 3 gigs >has maybe 2 seeds
Of course it is. What moron would buy every single streaming service. That's always the dumbass argument you homosexuals give. I'd buy 3 tops. Way cheaper than cable.
For the last 10 maybe 15 years younger people have just been going to alternative sources for entertainment. The writing was on the wall when children stations had a massive drop in viewership and how older people in their mid to early 30s suddenly made up the bulk of their viewers.
When I was in college I didn’t even have cable and didn’t miss it a bit. Nowadays I turn on nbc when I get home from work at 11:30pm, mostly background noise so I’m not sitting in silence. If I’m a little buzzed and in just the right mood I’ll chuckle at Jimmy Fallon, SNL, maybe Seth Meyers. Usually some nice girls to look at if nothing else. Super hot morning weather girl too, so I can bust one out before bed.
After not having it for years, whenever I visit family that has cable I am excited, but then I remember its just constant ads upon ads. Makes me wonder how it got this bad to begin with. You have to pay to watch ads for 1 third of the time you watch tv. Unreal.
Same. Usually we use the commercial break to talk or check our phones. It is always fun to watch House Hunters or Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, or Antique Roadshow though. If only there was a way to watch them without commercials.
I can see where she's coming from. If I can just pause whenever I'll likely not even come back to the episode sometimes. I'll leave it in a tab and forget about it. At least with a commercial I know I have a comfy 3 minutes to get back or else I'm missin it.
Another thing about pausing a movie, is that usually the UI pops up and tells you the amount of time left in the movie, which can give unwanted hints about how the plot will be resolved. Of course, this could be fixed by just allowing for the UI to be changed. Also, if you know the runtime of what you are watching and are decent at gauging how much has elapsed, the problem remains.
I realized I wasn't the target audience of cable TV. I read various reports from the national health registries and determined that in my age and health group I had 100X the chances of being injured by the vaccine as I did from dying of covid.
I was some kind of genius superman by doing basic math and statistical analysis yet millions of people were only able to understand that research based on dancing cartoons on the intellectual level of a 7 year old.
>so everything new sucks, you're going to watch some shit you actually like, do you want to >1. pay a fortune for physical media >2. pirate >3. DVR >4. stream >5. be told what to watch, when, and be subjected to commercials
It doesn't help that TV programming has given up all hope.
MTV is literally just "Ridiculousness" on repeat 24/7. Comedy Central is mostly a mix of The Office and South Park reruns. TVs are just a prop to put on in bars and waiting rooms now.
cable is expensive. a premium page you're paying like $150 plus a month after equipment charges and taxes. that isn't even including HBO and all that other shit. 90% of the channels are pure garbage you will never watch but you're forced to pay for them.
broadcast is fine, it's free but the options are limited. local news is fine but network programming is largely shit, modern TV shows largely suck. if they had something worth watching I would.
>local news is fine
It really isn't. It's just as twisted and manipulative as anything CNN or MSNBC cooks up but more insidious because people have their guard down.
Prove that you are a sentient human being. Tell me why I would pay for a service that gives me an obnoxious amount of ads? Why would I not seek out an alternative to this obnoxious amount of ads?
It will always be funny how Hollywood has failed to pivot and market to the new generation. They now rely on the failing model of pandering to minorities.
Hollywood has lost its prestige.
My antenna signal keeps getting worse. NBC is the only major network I can watch. What I don't get is supposedly most of them in my area broadcast from the same tower so idk why the rest of them come in like shit
If you'd like to do an experiment, take one whole year and for that year consume no media made after 2005. No games, no streaming, no TV, no movies, no books, none of it. When you get to the end you will have many answers to many things.
>boomer mother watches tv >complains about sports being on all the time >tell her that it rates far higher than the other trash on tv and is the only thing directed at men, as that demographic has largely left broadcast television otherwise >ignores what i said and complains about sports on tv
In the Netherlands commercials are taking the absolute piss. 25 minutes of show and then 15 minutes of commercials. It's actually insane. And most channels time their commercials so that they all happen at the same time so there's no escape.
There's so much content and shit to do that it's hard for anything to stand out anymore. Besides the days of having the same 3-5 networks and being forced to consume whatever shit they put out are long gone. I've always found it odd that streaming numbers aren't factored into TV ratings. You can get far more accurate data from streaming than you can get from Nielsen ratings.
Millennials and zoomers are also more attached to the content they watch on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. ((They)) are mad because online media is very decentralized. Alex Jones was doing better numbers on YouTube than what CNN did pre Trump.
it would be too unflattering for them to compare streaming with broadcast tv
watching tv is more of a passive thing which is why primetime slots were so important, as a popular show would often carry the following few programs due to the audience being too lazy to switch channels or turn it off
streaming is more active and people will turn it off if it's not holding their interest and there is no follow-up program except for maybe the next episode
the biggest issue is i have to craft my schedule to meet that of the stations. no way am i going to do that when i can stream at my convenience. it doesn't make any sense for me to have to choose between watching some show and literally anything else. television shows are such a low priority that if i am making the choice between the tv and anything else tv loses everytime. but, when i can make a choice to consume it when i want, i can find time for it.
Because anything gets put on their respective streaming service the next day, which is a godsend for people who know how to torrent properly, or even normies who can choose when to watch instead of rushing home to make sure to catch I show by 9. I remember when I was 22 I pulled over into a cheap motel after I late night at work just so I could catch an episode of the sopranos when it aired. Only thing left is sports, but even Fubo replaces that. I got a subscription because the illegal streaming sites suck, especially when you have people over. But even that is cheaper than cable itself.
whenever i'm at a hotel i'll watch the tv and there's something comfy about having random shows you wouldn't otherwise seek out, harks back to a simpler time. i wouldn't pay for it myself though.
diversity is THEIR strength - the people in power, as it stops us from aligning against them
they're being honest when they say it but they pretend it applies to plebs and morons repeat it like a mantra
because you can't choose what's on
Not enough diversity
No one wants to "tune in" to a channel to watch something while also having to deal with commercials, unless it's sports.
There's so many choices now with streaming services that it can be nice to have something pick a movie and just play it for you without having to weigh all the options and decide yourself between 100 movies
There's so many choices now with torrenting*
why do they say the video game business is bigger than Hollywood when they only get %11 of viewers half that of the old networks ?
Mobile and now PC, both of which are much bigger in China too.
>%11
viewers homie. video games are PLAYED first and foremost
i guess they mean twitch
Mentally Ill Whales dumping revenue into games.
It's why videogames as such don't really exist anymore in the bigger budgets. Everything's just a storefront for people with brains akin to a crackhead's.
The frick are you talking about it? It's bigger in terms of revenue you autistic frick.
we're not talking about viewership on twitch but revenue of the entire industry.
Because there are literally ZERO good shows on anymore. Btw streaming is starting to come around and be just as bad (if not worse) than cable.
> starting
Boomers are dying off. Don't worry they're taking the entire world with them. Tv will be the least of your worries soon.
I literally can't even imagine anyone under the age of 30 sitting down and watching regular tv/cable.
I don't think they can even conceptualize doing that activity whatsoever.
There's just too much streaming content and social media overload for them to unglue from that for any length of time because if they do they'll be out of the loop and won't know the latest memes, phrases and so on...
Shortform content has won. The masses are basically just above the gold fish in brain capacity and intellect. Its over for Television & Film. TikTok won.
not even remotely close
Yeah, zoomers and late millennials are so ADHD and incapable of focusing that they can't watch things that are longer than 5 minutes unless it's some homosexual essay video the hidden socialist message and lore of Donkey Kong Country.
Having to suffer through bullshit commercials and stuff you didn't really want to watch while paying for it is for true intellectuals.
too many options to watch abject shit.
Only old people do that, and well there's less of them every day.
people are tired of watching a show and it being some thinly veiled seething about CURRENT THING and politics
Majority of TV shows are bad or meh
commercials are everything now. i firmly believe that if there was a way to make you just sit and watch commercials, they wouldn't even bother with shows any more.
I have some old shows from the 70s and 80s. A 1hr show was anywhere from 45 to 50 minutes of the actual program. 12-15 minutes of ads per hour; 20-25% of the run time.
Looking at S24 of L&O SVU, the average run time (minus commercials) is down to 41 minutes per episode. Figure time for opening/closing credits, fade in/fade out, DUN DUN every few minutes, there's maybe 35-37 minutes of actual show there, tops.
That's a solid 1/3 of the hour-long slog of that already-boring piece of shit show that's nothing but commercials.
Why would anyone subject themselves to that?
I haven't watched it for like 7 years now. I don't even know why I still have it.
Radio is even worse. Used to be 5 or 8 or 10 songs, and a couple minutes of commercial. Now it's 1 song and 5 minutes of commercial.
I don't know when we, as a society, decided that everybody has to be advertised to everywhere at all times, but it's seriously fricked a lot of shit up.
The issue is that modern commercials are all fricking gay. I hate that every company has subscribed to the idea of "we're not selling a product, we're selling a lifestyle."
Commercials are the reason? Meanwhile every streaming service is adding ads unless you pay an exorbitant price to not have them.
I wouldn't know.
It used to be that you paid not to have them. Now you pay and still have them.
Hulu is the fricking worst with its ads. It's normal for them to cut early rather than at the show's designated commercial break points then it completely throws off the ad timer so when it ends the show is back in progress and you've missed about a minute or two
>just pirate
if I could I would, but several shows I watch don't get uploaded to torrent sites or if they do they're horribly encoded
>1080 quality for a 40 minute show
>size is over 3 gigs
>has maybe 2 seeds
Exactly look at an episode of TOS from 1966, and it was 51 mins long. 9 mins of commercials was all you had to worry about
I only watch on demand. Watching live tv is for cavemans. Even as a very little kid the thought of planning your time around broadcast tv was asinine.
>Why aren’t people watching TV
Non-whites and non-white behavior.
Advertising.
Quality of material.
TV died the moment they aired Big Brother / American Idol.
I can't fathom watching a tv show.
the real reason is that millions of boomers died from getting vaxxed and boomers are the only ones still watching tv
Who the frick pays for cable in 2023
It's cheaper than paying for multiple streaming subscriptions to watch your favorite shows.
it literally isn't
It literally is.
Of course it is. What moron would buy every single streaming service. That's always the dumbass argument you homosexuals give. I'd buy 3 tops. Way cheaper than cable.
you read that wrong, he is saying cable is cheaper than buying multiple streaming services
Cable IS cheaper than buying multiple streaming services.
where are you getting $30 cable
Internet.
My mom still watches TV because she wants to watch her favorite TV shows. Is this really so difficult to comprehend?
For the last 10 maybe 15 years younger people have just been going to alternative sources for entertainment. The writing was on the wall when children stations had a massive drop in viewership and how older people in their mid to early 30s suddenly made up the bulk of their viewers.
When I was in college I didn’t even have cable and didn’t miss it a bit. Nowadays I turn on nbc when I get home from work at 11:30pm, mostly background noise so I’m not sitting in silence. If I’m a little buzzed and in just the right mood I’ll chuckle at Jimmy Fallon, SNL, maybe Seth Meyers. Usually some nice girls to look at if nothing else. Super hot morning weather girl too, so I can bust one out before bed.
fricking loser
That's what most normal adults do. Anyone who says otherwise is some shut in that lives with their mom.
Ha, ha, ha.
After not having it for years, whenever I visit family that has cable I am excited, but then I remember its just constant ads upon ads. Makes me wonder how it got this bad to begin with. You have to pay to watch ads for 1 third of the time you watch tv. Unreal.
Same. Usually we use the commercial break to talk or check our phones. It is always fun to watch House Hunters or Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, or Antique Roadshow though. If only there was a way to watch them without commercials.
my mom watches tv she hates streaming cause she doesn't want to pause the show she wants to get up during comercials its weird.
I can see where she's coming from. If I can just pause whenever I'll likely not even come back to the episode sometimes. I'll leave it in a tab and forget about it. At least with a commercial I know I have a comfy 3 minutes to get back or else I'm missin it.
Another thing about pausing a movie, is that usually the UI pops up and tells you the amount of time left in the movie, which can give unwanted hints about how the plot will be resolved. Of course, this could be fixed by just allowing for the UI to be changed. Also, if you know the runtime of what you are watching and are decent at gauging how much has elapsed, the problem remains.
>got cable for no commercials
>cable forces commercials
>stop watching cable
Wooow
Television is aimed at an uneducated left leaning audience.
I'm just not interested.
It sucks
I realized I wasn't the target audience of cable TV. I read various reports from the national health registries and determined that in my age and health group I had 100X the chances of being injured by the vaccine as I did from dying of covid.
I was some kind of genius superman by doing basic math and statistical analysis yet millions of people were only able to understand that research based on dancing cartoons on the intellectual level of a 7 year old.
Watching clips/scenes on Youtube is much more satisfying. Makes you realize that in an hour long program, there's maybe 15 minutes of actual kino.
thanks for reporting in, third world.
Plenty of YouTube videos have the runtime padded too though, having a 2.5 minute intro and 1 minute outro in a 10 minute video.
but there are extension to skip that anon
>so everything new sucks, you're going to watch some shit you actually like, do you want to
>1. pay a fortune for physical media
>2. pirate
>3. DVR
>4. stream
>5. be told what to watch, when, and be subjected to commercials
I know which I'm not choosing.
>pay a fortune for physical media
blu rays and dvds are pretty cheap
It doesn't help that TV programming has given up all hope.
MTV is literally just "Ridiculousness" on repeat 24/7. Comedy Central is mostly a mix of The Office and South Park reruns. TVs are just a prop to put on in bars and waiting rooms now.
The Great Awakening is upon us. We are approaching critical mass, antisemitism is sky-rocketing and our shadow rulers are having light cast on them.
Heil victory gentlemen.
HEIL HITLER.
Somewhat. The israelites that control the media networks are outright contemptuous of the goyim and it really shows.
Because its shite
Television was never meant to be used this way.
too many blacks
cable is expensive. a premium page you're paying like $150 plus a month after equipment charges and taxes. that isn't even including HBO and all that other shit. 90% of the channels are pure garbage you will never watch but you're forced to pay for them.
broadcast is fine, it's free but the options are limited. local news is fine but network programming is largely shit, modern TV shows largely suck. if they had something worth watching I would.
>local news is fine
It really isn't. It's just as twisted and manipulative as anything CNN or MSNBC cooks up but more insidious because people have their guard down.
weather and local events. for national news it's pure garbage. during severe weather it's also useful.
>local events
Even that. Pay attention to what they choose to cover and how they talk about things. Local news is pozzed very hard.
teenage girls on toktik are more fun than some homosexual ass tv 30 minute tv show with 80 minutes of big pharma ads
TikTok is for idiots who destroy their attention spans (and their phones, considering it's actually spyware).
Yeah I tried tiktok once I watched 30 minutes of clips and couldn't remember what I had just watched. It's complete goyfeed.
>30 minute tv show
>80 minutes of big pharma ads
Found the tiktok-rotted zoomer conspiracy theorist
Prove that you are a sentient human being. Tell me why I would pay for a service that gives me an obnoxious amount of ads? Why would I not seek out an alternative to this obnoxious amount of ads?
How can there be 80 min of ads in a 30 min program, genius ?
Boomers are dying off. Nature is healing.
>Why aren’t people watching TV
Because everything is fricking shit.
it's gay
It will always be funny how Hollywood has failed to pivot and market to the new generation. They now rely on the failing model of pandering to minorities.
Hollywood has lost its prestige.
>jogger worship
>israelite backed ___
>no white people allowed
just to name a few
My antenna signal keeps getting worse. NBC is the only major network I can watch. What I don't get is supposedly most of them in my area broadcast from the same tower so idk why the rest of them come in like shit
>Is it football season? No?
>Then cable is cut
Truly a mystery.
don't look up early life
Someone tell me what was going through her head
visions of twitter trannies in her replies
Oy vey they’re turning off the goybox! Quick Shmuel release the new covid strain!
If you'd like to do an experiment, take one whole year and for that year consume no media made after 2005. No games, no streaming, no TV, no movies, no books, none of it. When you get to the end you will have many answers to many things.
>boomer mother watches tv
>complains about sports being on all the time
>tell her that it rates far higher than the other trash on tv and is the only thing directed at men, as that demographic has largely left broadcast television otherwise
>ignores what i said and complains about sports on tv
In the Netherlands commercials are taking the absolute piss. 25 minutes of show and then 15 minutes of commercials. It's actually insane. And most channels time their commercials so that they all happen at the same time so there's no escape.
I have one of those twenty dollar satellite antennas you can buy at wal mart.
Great investment. OTA tv is nothing special but for 20$ I have it forever, have actually seen some dope movies and I can watch Sven goolie
the old boomers are dying and TV is really bad now
Most channels show the exact same reality TV garbage instead of unique programming.
There's so much content and shit to do that it's hard for anything to stand out anymore. Besides the days of having the same 3-5 networks and being forced to consume whatever shit they put out are long gone. I've always found it odd that streaming numbers aren't factored into TV ratings. You can get far more accurate data from streaming than you can get from Nielsen ratings.
Millennials and zoomers are also more attached to the content they watch on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. ((They)) are mad because online media is very decentralized. Alex Jones was doing better numbers on YouTube than what CNN did pre Trump.
it would be too unflattering for them to compare streaming with broadcast tv
watching tv is more of a passive thing which is why primetime slots were so important, as a popular show would often carry the following few programs due to the audience being too lazy to switch channels or turn it off
streaming is more active and people will turn it off if it's not holding their interest and there is no follow-up program except for maybe the next episode
the biggest issue is i have to craft my schedule to meet that of the stations. no way am i going to do that when i can stream at my convenience. it doesn't make any sense for me to have to choose between watching some show and literally anything else. television shows are such a low priority that if i am making the choice between the tv and anything else tv loses everytime. but, when i can make a choice to consume it when i want, i can find time for it.
There is no way that video game number is near accurate
TV and film is pure trash now and only getting worse. Nothing worth watching right now
because most people aren't using cable but streaming shit, only boomers really stuck with cable and they are slowly but surely becoming irrelevant
My tv is literally turned on for gaming or movies it's not connected to any cable or local tv antennas. It's been this way since I was 18 I'm 33.
Because anything gets put on their respective streaming service the next day, which is a godsend for people who know how to torrent properly, or even normies who can choose when to watch instead of rushing home to make sure to catch I show by 9. I remember when I was 22 I pulled over into a cheap motel after I late night at work just so I could catch an episode of the sopranos when it aired. Only thing left is sports, but even Fubo replaces that. I got a subscription because the illegal streaming sites suck, especially when you have people over. But even that is cheaper than cable itself.
nothing on that interests me
whenever i'm at a hotel i'll watch the tv and there's something comfy about having random shows you wouldn't otherwise seek out, harks back to a simpler time. i wouldn't pay for it myself though.
I just put it on TCM and enjoy the kino.
>Why aren’t people watching TV
BLACKED
seriously though, every show gets cancelled after 1 season. Diversity isn't a strength. It's disgusting.
I'm sick of future Black person in space. Mermaid Black folk underwater. Black person Queens of England.
Why does every show need a token troony and homosexual?
They are literally mocking you. They are trying to exploit your image for financial gain.
Clearly people are waking up and rejecting their influence.
I wonder how this will all play out for them.
diversity is THEIR strength - the people in power, as it stops us from aligning against them
they're being honest when they say it but they pretend it applies to plebs and morons repeat it like a mantra