The reason why the culture seemed to go "weird" starting in 2015/2016

[Hoppipolla]

It's because the free market was dictating things less, right? Like... everything became more astroturfed.

Most video games for example don't seem to be really made for the consumer anymore - they're made to please Twitter and journalists and to boost the company's ESG score which... I think gets the company more money via the taxpayer? Is my best understanding.

So there's no need to please the customer so much anymore you can just make whatever you're told to make and that's that.

Politics and the rest of culture also seems to be far more astroturfed than it was 10 years ago.

So you get this kind of bizarre culture that doesn't feel natural. Maybe this is pretty much always the result when a society goes authoritarian beyond a certain point.

 

[soft]

Hmm yes makes sense. Consumers no longer dictate the demand. Instead a small, select community of who knows what kind of people decide where to direct tax money. So the market does not follow its natural course according to supply and demand, but instead is artificially directed according to some agenda.

 

[Pancakecel]

Wish I could time travel back

 

[Leon98]

Wish I could time travel back

 

[Leon98]

Wish I could time travel back

I wish that I could repeat living in 2015 again every year until I died.

 

[Hoppipolla]

I wish that I could repeat living in 2015 again every year until I died.

I'm older so for me it would be an earlier year but... tbh... any year before 2016 was pretty cool.

Not that Trump's election and the Brexit vote weren't really good but... culture is about more than just that.

 

[Leon98]

I'm older so for me it would be an earlier year but... tbh... any year before 2016 was pretty cool.

Not that Trump's election and the Brexit vote weren't really good but... culture is about more than just that.

Something was just so much better in the pre 2020 years. You could say it was just us being younger but even so life just felt about more laid back then.

 

[Trident]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwN5kwjAtQ

 

[NonNTFailure]

Things certainly did start to get more political back then, that’s for sure. Trump’s election made a lot of my foid highschool teachers freak out, but I was too busy coping with PS3 games still to really notice what was going on.

 

[vic624]

2010s was a decade of 0% interest rates. The entire economy was oriented toward growing capital investments. By mid-decade this was manifested as companies using debt to radiate into new consumer groups, trying to get women into spectator sports and vidya, trying to get minorities to have their own capeshit movies like Black Panther.

 

[Hoppipolla]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwN5kwjAtQ

I wish companies would just... focus on money.

I don't want my PC or my games console or my foods and drinks to lecture me about an ideology. The free market works best IMO when companies are mainly just focused on money. "How can we make a really good product and market it really well so that people buy it?"

I don't understand why it has to be more complicated than that.

 

[anotherwastedlife]

Wish I could time travel back

 

[BlueCore]

Wish I could time travel back

 

[baldfartsniffer]

It's because the free market was dictating things less, right? Like... everything became more astroturfed.

Most video games for example don't seem to be really made for the consumer anymore - they're made to please Twitter and journalists and to boost the company's ESG score which... I think gets the company more money via the taxpayer? Is my best understanding.

So there's no need to please the customer so much anymore you can just make whatever you're told to make and that's that.

Politics and the rest of culture also seems to be far more astroturfed than it was 10 years ago.

So you get this kind of bizarre culture that doesn't feel natural. Maybe this is pretty much always the result when a society goes authoritarian beyond a certain point.

the 90s and upwards has been shit. it wasn’t that much better in the 2010s or 2000s or the 1990s we have just simply continued to get worse. i don’t think day to day life and whatever else is actually that different if you ignore technology. technology is certainly the largest problem in our modern societies though.

 

[Anarcho Nihilist]

It's because the free market was dictating things less, right? Like... everything became more astroturfed.

Most video games for example don't seem to be really made for the consumer anymore - they're made to please Twitter and journalists and to boost the company's ESG score which... I think gets the company more money via the taxpayer? Is my best understanding.

So there's no need to please the customer so much anymore you can just make whatever you're told to make and that's that.

Politics and the rest of culture also seems to be far more astroturfed than it was 10 years ago.

So you get this kind of bizarre culture that doesn't feel natural. Maybe this is pretty much always the result when a society goes authoritarian beyond a certain point.

It's all about Black Rock and the shareholders who set the conditions for investing in the project. This madness started in 2014, when troon Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision.

 

[lifesucksandyoudie]

They deployed new forms of psyops to placate the population and distract them from their diminishing living standards and wealth being extracted.

 

[Genetics_subhuman]

The jews

 

[Sonicfancel]

The jews

Plus the foids and the normies.

 

[Genetics_subhuman]

The foids and the normies.

 

[Sonicfancel]

It's amazing how everything bad in the world is caused by foids. The only big change from 10 years ago was the increase in the totalitarianism of the Foids.