[ SECRET POST #6058 + 6059 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6058 + 6059 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Recently I've been toying around with the phrase "the tyranny of content." The idea is that we now have this endless, overwhelming stream of content coming at us from every direction. It's impossible to consume all of it, but there's a compulsion to consume as much of it as we possibly can so we can stay on top of the zeitgeist -- which, due to the sheer amount of the stuff, moves at the breakneck pace you mention. There's very little time to dig in, reflect, and consider at length anything that we watch, because we have to make sure we don't miss the Next Thing. Netflix et al encourage and entrench it with they way they release and measure shows: a season all comes out at once, and you have to binge it if you want it to have a chance in hell of getting renewed, because if you dare to take your time with it (not because you don't like it, but simply because that's how you prefer to watch TV; or because, you know, you have other things to do in your life), they view that as evidence that the show is not doing well, and may not be worth additional investment.

What's it all mean? It means that a lot of the time, we aren't even watching because we like what we're watching, but because we feel like we have to consume the content. And because we feel like we have to consume the content, it means the content that's produced keeps falling in quality, because those producing it figure they've got our eyeballs no matter what they put in front of us. It's anxious. It's empty. It feels like a chore. It feels like the content has become, well, tyrannical.

Anyway, I figure this is probably why streaming is starting to implode. It's also why it absolutely was the right time for the strike.