In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies
Deloitte Study Says Gen Z Skipping Film and TV for Creator Content
I just like fresh content. Stuff that is perhaps a little more rough around the edges but more authentic.
So many great creators deserve my attention before most of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days.
That's exactly how I articulated my thoughts to a friend the other day. Authenticity is paramount to my jaded brain. Besides, I've already seen the best TV series of all time in Breaking Bad, so why watch any more studio productions after that?
Old MST3K episodes don't count 🙃
I'd rather spend 30-45 min watching a guy my age working in their homelab with enterprise equipment from the early 2000s than watch most modern movies
Oh what channels are you watching?
I only really watch one channel about networking/sysadmin: clabretro - https://youtube.com/@clabretro
Here is a rundown of all my yt subscriptions:
Accursed Farms - Ross Scott's channel, creator of the Freeman's Mind series and a leader (?) of the Stop Killing Games movement: https://youtube.com/@accursed_farms
Alasdair Becket-King - British comedian making funny sketches: https://youtube.com/@abeckettking
All The Gear - Two former car youtubers, now doing odd challenges, like making a shelter from stuff from poundland, walking across a country in a day, camping on a roundabout and more: https://youtube.com/@allthe_gear
Anders Enger Jensen - A Norwegian guy making great synth music: https://youtube.com/@andersengerjensen
Barely Sociable - Well made videos about darker subjects: https://youtube.com/@barelysociable
Behind The Bastards - Podcast about bad people: https://youtube.com/@behindthebastards
Bigclivedotcom - A scotsman reviewing cheap Chinese electronics, experimenting with carbonating alcohol and more all in a calm voice: https://youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom
BobbyBroccoli - A guy making videos about science scandals and controversies: https://youtube.com/@bobbybroccoli
Brain Blaze - Simon Whistler making videos about fun topics: https://youtube.com/@brainblaze6526
Brick Experiment Channel - A Finish guy building Lego in silence, he has built several working radio controlled submarines, a working Lego drone and more: https://youtube.com/@brickexperimentchannel
Bright Sun Films - Documentaries about abandoned places, bankrupt companies snd cancelled projects: https://youtube.com/@brightsunfilms
EDIT: Posted too soon, will add more during the day!
Calum - A guy making great videos about interesting stuff like; LeTourneau's Land Trains, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, Jerry cans, a helicopter camper, a sea plane camper that got attacked and destroyed on flight around the world, giant concrete arrows all over the US, and more: https://youtube.com/@calumraasay
Code Bullet - Programming, AI and dancing, this guy made a 30 min long video about Clicker Heroes and how to beat it, he made a sand box game where you can design a creature in your webbrowser and have it learn to walk, he made a program to take suggestions from his viewers and automatically make a short Rick and Morty sketch in 3D from it, and more: https://youtube.com/@codebullet
DankPods - Australian man yells at technology: https://youtube.com/@dankpods
Decoding The Unkown - Simon Whistler talks about mysteries: https://youtube.com/@decodingtheunknown2373
EpicNate - Lore videos about Skyrim, Fallout, GTA, and recently IRL: https://youtube.com/@epicnate
Explosions&Fire - Australian chemist makes chemicals go boom in a shed, interesting and educational: https://youtube.com/@explosionsandfire
Extractions&Ire - Australian chemist makes chemicals do cool stuff in a shed, interesting and educational: https://youtube.com/@extractionsandire
Failure To Launch Podcast - Podcast about the stupid side of space science, like Jack Parsons, a rocket scientist who joined a sex cult, summoned the devil and wrote young adult books, or how the Japanese space tourist visiting Mir hated every minute of it, or the rocket pioneer who blew up the Tsar: https://youtube.com/@failuretolaunchpodcast
Fern - a channel making well made documentaries about different things, like CIA's heart attack gun, or Hitlers insane train proposal: https://youtube.com/@fern-tv
Garbage Time - Australian man yells at cars: https://youtube.com/@garbagetime420
Hello, I'm Gaming. - Australian man yells at computer games: https://youtube.com/@helloimgaming
Hidden in Sweden - A lot of things are hidden in Sweden, this giy makes good videos about it with and even include our foreign friends with subtitles: https://youtube.com/@hiddeninsweden
James Channel - Australian mechanic uses ducttape and hot glue to make a portable SNES, and a Nintendo Playstation, he also fixes other gaming stuff: https://youtube.com/@games_for_james
Jet Lag: The Game - What if the world was a board game? https://youtube.com/@jetlagthegame
Megaprojects - Simon Whistler talks about mega projects: https://youtube.com/@megaprojects9649
Our Own Devices - A lovely man talks about things, and explain how they work: https://youtube.com/@canadianmacgyver
Paper Skies - A guy who grew up with his father being in the Soviet air force talks about Soviet aviation: https://youtube.com/@paperskiesaviation
Paper Will - Have you thought about entertainment made by cults? No? What about entertainment made by North Korea? No? Well this guy takes a deep dive into both subjects and more: https://youtube.com/@paperwill
Peter Dibble - Videos about unusual infrastructure and transportation, oh and the first barcode: https://youtube.com/@peterdibble
RetroBytes - Videos about retro tech, very interesting: https://youtube.com/@retrobytesuk
Ringway Manchester - videos about radio, very interesting: https://youtube.com/@ringwaymanchester
SideNote - Videos about obscure subjects, recommended: https://youtube.com/@sidenotechannel
The Drum Thing - Australian man yells at drums: https://youtube.com/@the.drum.thing.
YouTube creators are trying hard to be fresh, bring hard hitting content, and provide content worth watching. There is considerable competition.
Hollywood offers constant remakes, sequels, and predictable Boeing plots.
I've seen many actual A24 style movies this year that were great. They can be butthurt all they want but it's their fault
What about TV?
I prefer podcasts over all other media
I also enjoy video games.
I don't think that feature-length films make sense in this environment. They're long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that
They're long, formulaic, and somewhat predictable because of that
Watch better movies lol
The length of movies isn't what's wrong with most films, bad writing is. And there's tons of movies with great writing out there. They didn't just stop making good movies when Disney started dominating - you've just become less exposed to them
Eh, I'd argue that the format is somewhat obsolete. When you have to travel to a cinema and pay an entry fee, the content needs to justify that effort
Now that most content is consumed at home, feature films don't necessarily need to exist as they have. The TV show format has adapted to the British model of a few short seasons, maybe just one.
For certain types of feature film, I'd much rather see a miniseries that allows even more content to get screen time and tells a more developed story (documentaries have moved in this direction).
(Yes there are great feature films still being made and I never said there aren't... But the vast majority are not worth the time they demand that I give them)
I can get braindead slop for free on Youtube and Co. I don't need Hollywood for it. If they would challenge us instead of producing the same movie over and over again, I might get back into movies. Almost all mainstream movies are utter garbage.
It's more fun to watch a Streamer play a video game than boring through the newest low tier Hollywood film
One of my favorite things to watch is some random person on YouTube going about their day, making breakfast, doing chores, petting their dog, etc.
hollywood is catering more to Asia audience than the west anyways. shitty written movies with actio heros is more interesting to the asian demographics in asia. thats why beast and logan is so popular there.
Its cheaper and doesn't follow the same tired formulas.
I personally figured this out when I pissed my girlfriend off by correctly guessing the entire plot to last christmas 2019.
Exactly. Novody is making the fifth crappy remake of that cool podcast you follow / etc
I mean it's often just 20 second snippets or game reviews or asinine nerd-political gaming commentary? A ton of it is very formulaic.
Do you watch scripted TV?
I consume both and internet content is, in my opinion, MORE formulaic than scripted shows and movies.