pop culture is boring atm to me -

[crackwh0re]

maybe it's just the ppl i follow on social media, what type of media i watch etc. but nothing's really doing it for me anymore let it used to. feels like every years less and less interesting movies come out, in general nothing actually worth caring about is going on it the pop culture world. but hey maybe its just me

 

[Dutch Courage]

Postmodern world problems.

 

[Pissmaster]

Yeah that happens to everyone at a certain age, though we really are living in a dark age of cinema. Good new movies are out there, but they get squelched by legions of soyboys screeching about the inevitable new superhero movie.

Try leaving your comfort zone and watching or listening to stuff you might have slightly considered at one point but passed up on. Or go to like the "post your favorite youtuber" thread here and check out some new channels.

Social media sucks and makes it so easy to just get into a loop where you're hearing the same shit from the same fags all the time. It's entirely possible that you're growing up and they aren't, and you've just gotta move on.

 

[TendieGremlin]

I guess it pays of more to be "meh" to everyone rather than good to a smaller group. Mass appeal brings the bucks.

 

[ThinkThankThunk]

My advice for movies to start following foreign cinema instead. Pretty much only things I've seen in theaters for the last few years have been non-English and it's all been great. Just in January alone I saw Parasite, Weathering With You, and some Indian action film a friend and I went to for shits and giggles since we were late to 1917. It's all a hoot; Hollywood can keep it's cookie cutter CG spandex-man shit as long as the rest of the world can keep muscling in on the barren landscape of good films.

Unfortunately video games are ruined across the board outside of a handful of studios that are willing to take a hit on sales to make something that isn't another microtransaction riddled e-sports wannabe or a fucking third-person loot-based pseudo-stealth open-world narrative action hybrid. My advice is to burn effigies of gaming executives and pray for a mass die-off. Or invest in VR if you feel like selling your kidney and spending weeks arguing with tech support about their shitty drivers and exchange policies. I hear there's a lot of fantastically creative indies out there making genuinely innovative stuff, although I still haven't gotten the chance to see any of it myself.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Welcome to being jaded. Cue up Fleetwood mac's "Landslide" and know being cynical is just part of adulting.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I've always been more fascinated with older pop culture anyway. Not because I'm one of those "born in the wrong generation" idiots, but because I'm genuinely interested from a historical point of view and because I like interacting with things that existed before I did.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I've always been more fascinated with older pop culture anyway. Not because I'm one of those "born in the wrong generation" idiots, but because I'm genuinely interested from a historical point of view and because I like interacting with things that existed before I did.

Shut the fuck up, literal child.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

You can thank Disney for that shit.
Also dumb people who keep going to see the same bullshit over and over again.

Definitely a symbiotic relationship.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

Pop culture has turned into a substitute for a personality for a good chunk of people, it's understandable why it's boring.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I just hate minorities and women.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

The worst part is when you grow up and all the friends you had that were into the same media you were just refuse to move outside their comfort zones and get all indignant if you pass on whatever the current popular thing in their interest is. Especially if said interest is Marvel or competitive game related.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Welcome to your 30's.

 

[Yamma Damma]

I think the problem is information overload. We have computers in our pockets after all. Having access to so much information is FUCKING TERRIFYING. And for the creative mind, a poison. Knowing every idea you have has been done before, and possibly better, is depressing. That's why everyone and everything seems like they're made in a factory, they're afraid of mediocrity while playing safe. The irony of it all.

Just power down for a bit and get some sleep. We just concluded a decade's worth of pop culture. Give it time.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"pop culture is boring atm to me"

why do you think pop culture boring to atm?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Look beyond the mainstream. There's tons of good stuff out there, just need to look for it.

 

[Pissmaster]

The worst part is when you grow up and all the friends you had that were into the same media you were just refuse to move outside their comfort zones and get all indignant if you pass on whatever the current popular thing in their interest is. Especially if said interest is Marvel or competitive game related.

I've had that happen. It really hurts to figure out that a person was your friend only because of a mutual interest, and not because they genuinely enjoyed being around you.

I guess that's what happens when you make friends with autists.

 

[The Crow]

Pop culture hasn't been very interesting at all for the last decade and a half at least.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

"Pop" is just a nice way of saying "lowest common denominator".

 

[crocodilian]

I gave up on television, movies and music once it started featuring so many niggers.