“What the streamers want most right now is ‘second-screen content,’ where you can be on your phone while it’s on.
Literally those memes mocking zoomer attention spans where you have subway dash or whatever on one side of the screen and on the other its soap carving stim videos, and then the actual content is squeezed between.
Horrible, understandable how depressing that shit would be if you can't get work anywhere except to write for shit that literally as a concept has to be dumb and easy to follow.
turning on a TV show and it's just a baby sensory video and the production team is drinking themselves to death
the logical endpoint of the attention economy is Soytube Kids on Disney+
Even in that genre there's a noticeable dividing line between "enriching content produced with input from artists, writers and educators" and "creepy search-engine-optimized trash", and the latter is winning.
Remember Elsagate? We're gonna get an official "Elsa Frozen Pregnant Spiderman" TV series and it will run for thirteen seasons.
Some of the garbage currently taking up space on the Kids section of Netflix (a service which I am PAYING FOR) honestly has more in common with that shit than it does with, say, Sesame Street, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Let me guess.
Poor wages, huge workload, executive meddling, and no creative control?
Be an executive producer! Where a lack of talent, skill, or creativity is no obstacle to seeing your vision come to life!
“What the streamers want most right now is ‘second-screen content,’
See I've been thinking that modern TV shows were worse for having twitter open in another tab. They're not as dialogue driven so its easier to miss shit.
Congressional baseball, on the other hand... Now that shit is riveting. :baseball-crank:
