Because there’s less companies making media…
30 studios will all want to have the blockbuster game of the year, then 2-3 others to be safe.
3 studios want the same thing, but that’s a tenth of the games.
Plus to make it even worse rather than a game being a one off sale, maybe some dlc, they want “live service” where people keep buying cosmetics. The studios don’t want people buying a bunch of games, they want you playing their flagship and only flagship.
It’s less that the biggest studios but up smaller for talent, IP, or anything. They’re buying them up to shit them down to squash competition. That’s why we’re seeing it all over. Why bother making good media, when they can just make sure theirs is the only option?
Everything and every platform has become gamified and there’s no room for true artistic creation anymore.
It only feels that way because one doesn’t explore.
On a creative standpoint, the well of originality is drying up quickly.
exploring is legitimately harder than it used to be, at least via the internet.
A coworker showed me a quote from this guy, Steve Magness (https://www.stevemagness.com/) that sums it up really well - When we’re constantly ‘killing time’ on our phones/screens in every waking moment that our attention isn’t otherwise required, we suck up the space that was once reserved for creativity and fill it with garbage instead. We fragment our attention and rarely get lost in our thoughts or follow up on cool ideas. Creativity is dying first before it’s born because we don’t just sit and engage with our own ideas like we did once…we just scroll.
The second factor is the giant, impossibly sophisticated psychological rat’s maze the internet has become for content… we are fed much more than we truly discover, and every day 100k tons more AI shit is shoveled over real, genuine ideas… and it’s that bullshit the algorithm will serve you. You have a lot less agency and exposure online than you THINK you do… and that is by design. If you have been on the internet for more than 10 years, then you remember when that was very much not the case and feel the difference.
Hang out with local, creative people in person, ask them what they’re into. Stare out a window and think thoughts, shut your phone off and read books. The good news is that there is SO MUCH good shit in the world already that the decline of our civilization and its creative output isn’t so bad, if you just get some distance from it.
When we’re constantly ‘killing time’ on our phones/screens
Reminded me of that quote from House of Leaves
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.
Algorithm doesn’t have an incentive to shiw anything good, only engaging content. Which is usually trash
Because you’re not looking.
We have more games, videos, music, and art available right now then at any time in previous history.They’re not asking whether it’s literally true.
They’re asking why it feels like there’s less.
That’s a subjective, but still valid question.
Because they’re not looking.
Too many choices, I’ll just doomscroll Lemmy.
That’s the spirit!
Well I can’t answer the other parts, but for games: The games industry has been going through a massive upheaval from ~2022-2025 has seen a staggering number of layoffs, games being canceled, and studios being shuttered. We’d be seeing a lot more games right now if they hadn’t been axed over the years.
In the indie game dev side, its sort of* an indiepocalypse where battling for a smidgen of spotlight on Steam is brutal - and even financial “success” doesn’t mean you’ll have enough to follow up with another game. Also because of the above publishers aren’t funding many AA games so its hard to get those going to.
*Its a little different for niches and certain genres so this is a generalization.
Only a small blow in a big battle, but one suggestion: Put active effort into your searches for positive content on something rather than negative.
Don’t watch 8 videos about how Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 sucks, and it’s over for Activision. Do a search for videos highlighting 10 great indie games that deserve your attention. YouTube even has an “AI search” that, while it is tools of the enemy, may let you be more explicit about what you’re looking for.
The secondary benefit of finding these videos is that anyone putting them out is probably aware negativity and outrage manufactures more views, and is instead choosing to better their content for its own sake.
Some other search options to curate your feed: Animations by hobbyists and college students, zoologists giving introductions to animals together with their name/location (NOT out-of-context 5 second clips of funny animals stolen without permission), any decent animations in Garry’s Mod / SFM, Machinima…
Heck, if someone wants a specific pointer and has a spare day, look up the Clear Skies trilogy. Yes…trilogy
it’s harder to find than it used to be due to the algorithms.
I think part of it is people leaving the biggest platforms, making everything more decentralized but still on proprietary servers so no federation. That and it’s tough out there right now.
You are suffering from selection bias, being the sort of person who is here on Lemmy. The vast majority of people who are making content are still posting to legacy platforms.
I think both things can be true. Maybe before it was 90% posting to legacy platforms and now it’s dropped to 70%
Just theorizing though
youtube is mostly slop, unless you know which creators and follow them that is your niche. slop also includes content creator making lazy videos(the biggest ytubers are part of the problem). propaganda and MSM is also infilitrating YT.
Good ones to follow: Vlogbrothers/Hank Green’s channel, Kurzgesagt, Liam Carpenter, Sci Show, mayyybeee Critical Role (although their ads are getting obnoxious), Time Ghost, Fascinating Horror, Robwords, Taskmaster, Miniaturwunderland, The Tim Traveller and Tasting History.
It’s really annoying that YouTube constantly feeds people AI slop and no longer suggests anything decent.
My producer, Neigsendoig, and I have been working on the music side, just in niche shenanigans.
Delete your YouTube history, retrain the algo. My tip is female exercise videos work the same muscles but don’t put you on the incel algorithm.
Tool reviews are another area dripping in incel content. I installed a 3rd party blocker to keep that shit at bay.
The
Not InterestedandDon't Recommend Channelbuttons work surprisingly well for this. I am very protective of my algorithm so I try to avoid videos that I think will open up the flood gates for shitty content but in the event that it does, a few choice clicks of those two buttons usually has things bavk under control pretty quick.They don’t. I kept getting recs from channels I tried that with. Altright/manosphere shit.
They definitely do because my recommendations are squeaky clean 98% of the time and those buttons, along with not clicking on shit that I think will poison my feed are the main tools I use to keep things clean.
One thing to keep in mind is that YT makes changes to their algorithm every once in a while. For me, that typically manifests as sports channels, especially the NFL, or political stuff making their way into my feed. A few clicks of those buttons and I’m back to normal.
I’ve repeatedly gotten recommended the same channel I told it I wasn’t interested in.
All I can give you is an anecdote about my own experience. In said experience I’ve not had any non-starter issues with those two tools. They work for me until Youtube changes its algorithm.
This is why I mentioned the NFL channel as an example. It’s my canary in the coalmine of Youtube. When the NFL channel (among other sports related channels) pops back up on my feed, I know that YouTube has changed something in the algorithm.
I just click
Not InterestedandDon't Recommend Channeland away it goes for another year or so until they make another change. Simple as.I’ve curated a recommendation feed that is highly specific to my interests as a result. Not sure why that method wouldn’t work for you.
I’ll have to start searching for “M12 milwaukee crown stapler female user”.
Is there a manosphere specific content blocker?
I use BlockTube for Firefox to manually block videos and channels. I don’t know if there’s a premade list or anything.
you have always had to filter good art (literally all media, really…filter for quality or go insane) from bad art, there’s just a lot more shit to go through now with ai content.
Can’t say that is true for music at least. I heard new music everyday for the hundreds of artists I follow in youtube music and soundcloud.
