The difference is it didn't feel forced, you can only make people behave with law enforcement or having them see it your way when they reach that conclusion themselves.
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usually, by "woke" movies people mean movies only made for the sake of being "woke", no? like its only message is "here's all the diversity, look, look, at our big woke diverse movie! now, give us the moneys we are so diverse look at us and don't bother us anymore with your agenda!"
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Just wait until the adults are people who grew up with the YouTube algorithm
Slightly off topic, but it just dawned on me that the youngest generation might not have as universal of a childhood compared to some before.
Like, everyone in school knew what SpongeBob was. Maybe you didn't have a TV or you didn't like watching it, but you knew the characters and the general gist of what happens in the show.
With kids on such giant platforms like YouTube, there's so much variety, I wonder if the "brand recognition" will be as strong in 10 years.
I’m sure most kids know about Skibidi Toilet, the Paul brothers and Mr Beast.
What’s worse, is that the Paul brothers and Mr Beast use their influence to promote products directly to the children. Like Prime.
Many shows when we were kids were just drivers for toy sales though. Product placement was also huge and unregulated.
True, but I like Transformers so it’s ok
I don't remember the people behind Power Rangers using their influence to get me to agree to being put through what amounts to torture for the hope of getting enough money to pay my bills though.
That’s odd, because I seem remember lots of pro-capitalist messaging on TV when I was growing up.
We were pressured to buy the toys, but we didn't have anything on the order of IRL Squid Game.
I was playing with your idea of getting put through torture to get money to pay the bills - if you interpret that as encouraging us to get a job under capitalism, it’s basically what that amounts to!
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I've noticed with my kids it's more about streamers. They all know them by name. They'll talk about their latest videos like we would with TV show episodes.
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yt has been around for some 18 years now. there are already adults who grew up with it
YouTube changed. Of cause it always had some kind of algorithm but The Algorithm is relatively new
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They seem to be talking about it (and by extension streaming) as a replacement for TV. But TV was still a big thing 18 years ago.
“TV” still does just not tv. At least kids I know are streaming descendants zombies victorious. Basically anything with singing and yes a hefty dose of YouTube thrown in.
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Woke is when eyes more open. Checks out.
Well, I am not "woke", I am eepy.
You can be both. I know I am.
I like the accuracy of the eyes growing over time.