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⌈ Secret Post #6880 ⌋

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[British comedian/presenter Noel Fielding, The Mighty Boosh, The IT crowd]



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I'm nervous about the increasing speed with which entertainers go from "endearingly familiar" to "grating" for me now.

I used to be able to enjoy someone (a Youtuber, a podcaster, a TV host) for months or years without getting sick of them. But now it takes only a few weeks for me to find them irritating in some way.

Is this a depression thing? (I thought | was doing better.) Is this getting old and crotchety? (I'm only mid-30s.) Am I just less patient with people?

[(Anonymous)]

well, I wouldn't discount age if you're comparing your consumption from when you were a teen, but if you're consuming enough content of a single person for weeks at a time, it's probably just sheer fatigue. I can't think of anyone I'd want to watch so much of...besides an actor in a show and even then, give me 3 episode a night and that's plenty.

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I'm biased because I'm definitely getting more crochety with age but yeah, agree that it might just be fatigue. I don't like watching too much of any one thing these days, whether it's a genre, specific TV show, specific Youtuber, etc. I get bored and irritable, and small things that barely register when you watch something rarely starts to get on your nerves.

Variety really is the spice of life.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you're outgrowing them. Or you're tired of the format. Maybe give them a rest for a month or two then revisit them to see if you feel any different.

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I could definitely see this being a combination of overstimulation, cynicism, and fatigue.

Shit's fucked up on like a terrifying political macro level, and meanwhile the enshitification of everything continues unchecked and is (rightfully IMO) making people increasingly cynical about just about every form of consumer good that exists, including arts and entertainment.

We're being heavily conditioned to think of most things as cheap and fleeting, and meanwhile we're being inundated with MORE OF EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME.

So yeah, it would not be strange at all if a lot of people were feeling increasingly fickle, cynical, and tetchy about all sorts of relatively inconsequential stuff these days, when the quality of most consumables as dropped precipitously, production-volume and sales tactics have skyrocketed, and whenever we DO manage to find something decent that we actually like, it'll most likely either be discontinued because it's no longer doing viral numbers, or cheapened into a shittier version of itself within a year or two.

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Oof, did not realize this is something that's been creeping up in my life until I read this secret.

Pretty sure it's a mix of a lot of things.
I think for me, being extremely online now is rather mainstream so a general feeling of a celebrity being endearing can wear out quick since it's so in our faces.
If it's not loving Pedro Pascal for having sweet dad vibes, it's living for Dakota Johnson not following media scripts to make the audience feel comfortable when doing interviews/promotions.
Generally, they're endearing. But I've had moments where I just can't give any shits about anything and that endearing stuff grates on my nerves.

Similar to how it can be difficult for me to go into work and chitchat with my coworkers. It can be pleasant, but when I've been going to work day in and day out for weeks and months on end, it becomes such a drag to get up at certain time and go into work and talk to same people I see so often.

It's not personal. Making me think of Christopher Moltisanti's classic "the regularness of fucking life is too much".
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When I'm really frustrated or irritated, anything that I'm okay with or even that I like can become profoundly grating to me. The frustration or irritation gets to a point where it spills over onto other things. Maybe it's not the YouTuber or TV Host, but something else in your life is boiling over and your entertainment is in the splash zone.