>>97879754I'm not cheering on the death of entertainment media. I'm cheering on the death of establishment entertainment media, at least in its current phase. It's the tale as old as time. Artists come up with thing, thing draws in fans, corporate suits take note of thing, suits water down thing in order to make it more palatable to wider audiences until normies lose interest and thing dies. Countless /co/ beloved works have straight up died/become shit due to this bullcrap. And worse, as a result of how omnipresent the chokehold of industry over the entertainment biz has become in recent years, the industry has become, worse than simply watered down, straight up stagnant. With the same dancers in the same roles doing the same routines over and over ad nauseum.
I know that, as long as capitalism (which I'm actually pretty fine with, on the whole) exists, there's no fix for that first issue of mine. But the stagnation's something that can only be fixed with a serious shakeup in the house. That 07 CN Real fiasco caused some real creative talent mixup and for the first time in a while it felt like some real new faces were getting their shot in the limelight. It felt like CN had a sudden renaissance and a burst of creativity, that they proceeded to ruin.
Imagine that, but with the whole mainstream entertainment complex. That's what I'm seeing happening here. Honestly, I have no real stake in the whole gender wars side of things, as far as I see it it's a 2010s fad that won't outlive the decade, maybe we'll see a resurgence in 10-30 years who knows. But the fact that this might actually make some of the /co/ shit better, if only temporarily, warms my cold, neckbeard heart.
