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I wonder what it's like being a zoomer and growing up without any original content? Everything they hold dear is a reboot, remake, sequel, sequel to a sequel, off shoot, prequel, or rehash.
I was born in 95' and around like 2008 when I was like 12 I had the sense that nothing new would ever arise again
Then I read Capitalist Realism a year ago and I was dude what the fuck
IDK if I'm a zoomer but there has been this sense my entire that everything was going to be locked in stasis
honestly growing up past the fall of the USSR must be so fucking weird compared to how people grew up back then
I really envy boomers both for their security and because they probably got the last gasp of society that hadn't become completely alienated and hollowed out by capitalism
I'm a millennial and this is fascinating for me, since the impression throughout my life has been there was a short period of rapid progression and change, then a sudden screeching halt where culture is frozen and doomed to repeat itself. Seems like you only got the later part. Sorry about that.
I feel bad for the 2001+~ babies, holy shit I cannot even imagine being in FUCKING elementary school WITH Facebook and all that poisonous shit.
I really felt Brace in the last TrueAnon episode when he said all social media execs should be put up against the fooken wall, I got introduced to that in like middle school and I'm convinced it gave me brain damage, I was a really shy and fucked up kid from a very poor and dysfunctional family and developed the habit of obsessively stalking people I thought were cool and it gave me a body image disorder for most of my teens and exacerbated my severe depression and anxiety and it still makes me depressed even today when I get on social media because of how lame my life is
like I moved to a decently affluent suburb by chance (housing crash in 08') and seeing other 12 years old live a lifestyle your dad could never provide you was like....fuck
It's just so fucked to me too that all of my early childhood experiences were just under the fluorescent lighting of supermarkets and shit because that was the only time I got to be with my parents. My entire experience of the world has just been passing through sterile, endlessly recursive transactional spaces as a member of a poor minority group. I was a "gifted" child but I think even people dumber than me may have realized how fucked this all is....the disconnection goes so deep and then with the whole backdrop of the war on terror and I would read Nat Geo and all this shit about dirty bombs, Abu Ghraib and Al Qaida etc., getting told to go back to Mexico, getting called a wet after spending my early childhood bombarded with post 9/11 patriotism where they told you that this is the greatest country on the fucking planet and if you don't like it well you're lucky you weren't born in shithole Mexico, you fucking wetback
honestly it's not surprising everyone my age is fucking insane and all the music the people slightly younger than me make is about overdosing on drugs and being addicted to sex
Like another commenter, I was also born in the mid 90s, so depending on who you ask I’m like the oldest zoomer if anything. But anyway I think because there’s just so much shit to consume these days it was probably inevitable most things would quels/rebootmakes. It’s just safer when media corporations are focused on maximizing profit and trying to catch as many people’s attention as possible.
I feel like you can still find about the same amount of original media we had in earlier decades. It’s only buried under a much larger volume of cynical mass media shit and/or hidden away in more niche “new” media (animation, games, etc). Plus remakes and such aren’t new. Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on short stories. Heston’s Ben-Hur was a remake of a book adaptation. Nolan’s movies are usually originals. Tarantino’s are all original, I think. A lot of the most popular video games that blew up in my lifetime were new things - Pokemon, Minecraft, uh Spyro, Undertale, Splatoon? Anime is another rabbit hole you can comb through sometimes.
I think one of the differences is remakes this days are not so much adapting a previously existing thing, but bringing back something already popular and saying "hey, remember this!" Like when Blade Runner came out i doubt very many people were going "oh shit they're making a Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep adaptation!," and I doubt the producers were advertising it as "hey, remember Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? We've made a movie about that!" The source material was not the source of the advertising or popularity.
Whereas with this, the advertising draws on the source material itself - "hey, remember Toy Story? Remember Buzz Lightyear? Do we have a movie for you!" And so does its popularity - people going to see this movie will be going partly and probably mainly due to the source material.
But idk, this comment isnt deep analysis, just something to think about
Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown is based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch. That's the only time he's adapted anything, unless the Kill Bill movies count where characters from 70s Hong Kong movies show up as if it's all a shared universe.
I mean Minecraft is certainly a gen z game, a lot of people played it when they were around 12 and got back into it recently
But as far as movies go there's like, the first few marvel movies which are the same, and then there's sequels to one of three types of marvel movie. And idk, Joker or somethin
Kids still see older Disney movies. Just think about how old some of the hand drawn Disney movies are and people still watch them as kids. A lot of movies are somewhat "timeless". When I saw Jurassic Park the first time, the second movie was probably already out.
There is more art available than for any previous generation. The biggest budget movies are all sequels but who cares. There's way more access to movies from all around the world now than decades ago
I wonder what it's like being a zoomer and growing up without any original content? Everything they hold dear is a reboot, remake, sequel, sequel to a sequel, off shoot, prequel, or rehash.
At least our slop was original slop.
I was born in 95' and around like 2008 when I was like 12 I had the sense that nothing new would ever arise again
Then I read Capitalist Realism a year ago and I was dude what the fuck
IDK if I'm a zoomer but there has been this sense my entire that everything was going to be locked in stasis
honestly growing up past the fall of the USSR must be so fucking weird compared to how people grew up back then
I really envy boomers both for their security and because they probably got the last gasp of society that hadn't become completely alienated and hollowed out by capitalism
I'm a millennial and this is fascinating for me, since the impression throughout my life has been there was a short period of rapid progression and change, then a sudden screeching halt where culture is frozen and doomed to repeat itself. Seems like you only got the later part. Sorry about that.
I feel bad for the 2001+~ babies, holy shit I cannot even imagine being in FUCKING elementary school WITH Facebook and all that poisonous shit.
I really felt Brace in the last TrueAnon episode when he said all social media execs should be put up against the fooken wall, I got introduced to that in like middle school and I'm convinced it gave me brain damage, I was a really shy and fucked up kid from a very poor and dysfunctional family and developed the habit of obsessively stalking people I thought were cool and it gave me a body image disorder for most of my teens and exacerbated my severe depression and anxiety and it still makes me depressed even today when I get on social media because of how lame my life is
like I moved to a decently affluent suburb by chance (housing crash in 08') and seeing other 12 years old live a lifestyle your dad could never provide you was like....fuck
It's just so fucked to me too that all of my early childhood experiences were just under the fluorescent lighting of supermarkets and shit because that was the only time I got to be with my parents. My entire experience of the world has just been passing through sterile, endlessly recursive transactional spaces as a member of a poor minority group. I was a "gifted" child but I think even people dumber than me may have realized how fucked this all is....the disconnection goes so deep and then with the whole backdrop of the war on terror and I would read Nat Geo and all this shit about dirty bombs, Abu Ghraib and Al Qaida etc., getting told to go back to Mexico, getting called a wet after spending my early childhood bombarded with post 9/11 patriotism where they told you that this is the greatest country on the fucking planet and if you don't like it well you're lucky you weren't born in shithole Mexico, you fucking wetback
honestly it's not surprising everyone my age is fucking insane and all the music the people slightly younger than me make is about overdosing on drugs and being addicted to sex
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Is this still for zoomers, wouldn't this be gen alpha slop?
Like another commenter, I was also born in the mid 90s, so depending on who you ask I’m like the oldest zoomer if anything. But anyway I think because there’s just so much shit to consume these days it was probably inevitable most things would quels/rebootmakes. It’s just safer when media corporations are focused on maximizing profit and trying to catch as many people’s attention as possible.
I feel like you can still find about the same amount of original media we had in earlier decades. It’s only buried under a much larger volume of cynical mass media shit and/or hidden away in more niche “new” media (animation, games, etc). Plus remakes and such aren’t new. Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on short stories. Heston’s Ben-Hur was a remake of a book adaptation. Nolan’s movies are usually originals. Tarantino’s are all original, I think. A lot of the most popular video games that blew up in my lifetime were new things - Pokemon, Minecraft, uh Spyro, Undertale, Splatoon? Anime is another rabbit hole you can comb through sometimes.
I think one of the differences is remakes this days are not so much adapting a previously existing thing, but bringing back something already popular and saying "hey, remember this!" Like when Blade Runner came out i doubt very many people were going "oh shit they're making a Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep adaptation!," and I doubt the producers were advertising it as "hey, remember Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? We've made a movie about that!" The source material was not the source of the advertising or popularity.
Whereas with this, the advertising draws on the source material itself - "hey, remember Toy Story? Remember Buzz Lightyear? Do we have a movie for you!" And so does its popularity - people going to see this movie will be going partly and probably mainly due to the source material.
But idk, this comment isnt deep analysis, just something to think about
Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown is based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch. That's the only time he's adapted anything, unless the Kill Bill movies count where characters from 70s Hong Kong movies show up as if it's all a shared universe.
As mentioned before, there's undertale, and I'd give gen Z Persona as well.
But I'd argue Sly Cooper and RuneScape are also important for many zoomers.
I mean Minecraft is certainly a gen z game, a lot of people played it when they were around 12 and got back into it recently
But as far as movies go there's like, the first few marvel movies which are the same, and then there's sequels to one of three types of marvel movie. And idk, Joker or somethin
Let's goooo :lets-fucking-go:
Undertale for game of the generation :trans-undertale:
Persona is a property from the 00s.
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if it means people still like Earthbound or are at least aware of it, I'm happy
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Kids still see older Disney movies. Just think about how old some of the hand drawn Disney movies are and people still watch them as kids. A lot of movies are somewhat "timeless". When I saw Jurassic Park the first time, the second movie was probably already out.
What's it like being old as shit
There is more art available than for any previous generation. The biggest budget movies are all sequels but who cares. There's way more access to movies from all around the world now than decades ago