We really shouldn't have let Ron DeSantis revive a term that had already been dead on the internet since 2016 as a stand-in for everything faacists don't like. Grifters using woke as a target is like Steve Buscemi dressing up in 1991 Nickelodeon hip pre-teen attire and saying "what's up my dudes? I am hip with da cool kids."

I played The Long Dark while watching this video. Very interesting though!

Well, Netflix definitely miscalculated a bit about the whole “captured users thing” because my parents found the whole service dull after about a year or 2. When Netflix started cracking down on sharing accounts, my parents just shrugged and told me they’d “barely been using it anyways”

imagine being so mad that you'll never be a femboy that you angrily yell about gender ambiguity in video games

6:48 it would be a joke, then. A vegan wolf being eaten by wolves isn't a joke anymore than someone getting kicked in the groin. You can laugh but you're just doing it because you're uncomfortable and immature and the more uncomfortable and immature you are, the harder you're going to need to laugh to maintain the cognitive dissonance. The Firetruck isn't killing me after the 50th time hearing but I can still recognize there's a punchline; "The Ambulances will have to wait."

Kids' attention spans have been so negatively impacted by the advent of smartphones that everything needs to be geared towards their unintended dementia-like sensibilities. God help us all.

Who's narrating this ? AI ? the forced upper crust English is hilarious.

Honestly I really didn’t like guardians 3. The animal abuse and body horror imagery was really unpleasant.

It really has just become "the grifter who cried woke" As they make the same stupid mistake of calling everything woke, more and more people who haven't drank the kool-aid recognise it as a grift. They're not actually critical thinkers like they try to sell themselves as. But grifters desperate to make a quick buck

Pants are.... Non-feminine?

The primary, secondary screen thing made me realize how much I don’t fit in with the average person. That’s crazy to me and I didn’t know stuff literally gets created for that

I ❤ slop

Oooh, so this is why there's a live action How to Train Your Dragon now

Somewhere in the Bible Jesus said to 12 men: "Love each other as I have loved you" Woke af

This can be xplained by the "brand". A brand can be as powerful as a product, but brands take forever to appear and be established. These "slops" is just products that are valued for their brand, rather than their product. Pokemon and disney do not need to do anything to sell any product, except to say that it is from their brand. The videogame and streaming industry were too young to have brands to this level, but now they exist; and now their audience is as captive as they were to a tleviison channel or a radio host. You are not inmune to propaganda or addiction, and these brands are engineered to be as close to addiction as possible.

Honestly, since KZbin values viewer retention and longer watch times (and longer videos can contain more ads), I think a lot of youtubers are making videos longer than they really need to be. For these kinds of videos, the AI seems very useful.

Once again a loser gets famous because they're a loser, but they profit off it.

Granted 100 million people would not have watched Damsel if not for the reasons you point out. 100 million people do not like vaguely crappy fantasy movies. However. Given that you’ve told me a fantastic fantasy premise and told me it’s vaguely crappy, I’m gonna go watch it now. Vaguely crappy fantasy movies are my favorite genre 😂

Slop is a question of soul. Is there passion and genuine artistry behind it or is it first and foremost a product made to satisfy numbers wonks in suits? A second screen model works until the precise moment people start paying attention.

They aren’t bad, they just aren’t good.

So the question is “ Is sci-fi that contains minorities too real for racists” because that’s what it is. They’re upset because they don’t want their fantasy interrupted by reality. They don’t want to be reminded that anyone other than white people exist and the fact that they’re in the game means that their ideal person ISNT A FANTASY FOR EVRRYONE. Think of a spoiled child who is just finding out other people have birthdays and THEY DONT get presents on those days cause it’s not about THEM. That is pronouns guy and gamer gate in a nut shell. Every time a game doesn’t directly market to straight why males ONLY, it’s a bad game.

The new argument apparently is...because Trump won the election therefore heels was right? Weird cope about being wrong about a video game.

Here's the thing with slop digital only content. When the ratings goes down, it disappears from the library, like it never existed. To be replaced with the whatever content of the week. In short, it's disposable dopamine, like another Big Mac ending up going round the U bend. Slop's badness is when large movie and TV companies would rather make slop than taking on the risks involved with putting in the effort required to make actually decent and memorable movies and TV shows, as it's more profitable for them based on their stats. Which, when considering all of the above, is probably why I still go back to my physical media collection full of real movie and TV hits, and feel so "meh" with the majority of modern stuff.

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He should consider quit drinking. Or really just quitting.

Slop is something that majority of people don't ask but in the end wants during the dead time between good things, as long the slop maker is doing something valuable for everyone else and we keep the unhealthy addicted to slop I'm fine with that, as I grew up in the MMO F2P boom and Farmville 1, that was slop for just more slop without an end.

oh, the irony

I have never in my life watched a movie "in the background". If you do you have a serious entertainment issue.

This The marvel Avengers: Earth mightiest heroes, I never seen in my country before, until now. #SaveTheYostVerse

As someone who writes fanfiction, my take on established characters is that you need to have a good grasp of who they are so that when you write them you can believably depict how they would behave and change in the scenarios you put them in. It's fine for the character to change, drastically even, but you need to show your work or else there isn't much point. Same way you need to know what stimulus you have to apply for this character to plausibly behave in a certain way. If there isn't a plausible way for them to do what you want, then you have to figure out something else. The comment about Luke is good. While The Last Jedi could get a bit egregious about it (the milking scene) the idea that Luke would have been brought low by the destruction of his Jedi order is just like . . . Yeah, of course! Why do you think he hid himself away for years?

I think watch time is an example of lazy executives measuring the wrong metrics. Watch time is important for serving ads, but if you have a subscription service you already have people's money, so you only need to stop them cancelling. I think the strategy to retain viewership is the same as obtaining it in that instance: Just make a few good things and enough niche entertainment that people are watching something on your platform every week or so and their 'to watch' list has at least one thing on it that they really want to get to. Though this is probably just because they're just pivoting to an ad based service, which sucks. I think I'll just cancel my account. There isn't anything worth watching on there anyway.

Interesting video on the nextflix and music financial incentives, I don't think "slop" is tied to having a succesfull prior audience but as laid out by you it does provide the financial incentive to produce low quality work with mass appeal. Slop has lost it's meaning already in the short time the word has been put back into the vocabulary. "slop" entered again through 4chan under the banner goyslop discussing the role of jews in the proliferation of seed oils in the modern diet. slop has a well defined meaning and it's usually analogous to pig-feed a low quality amalgamation of garbage betting on the fact that pigs will eat anything. This is how the word is intended ironically it was soon filtered through sites like reddit etc to become a meaningless term to be used incorrectly by the undescerning masses hooked up to the algorithmic feeding trough. So "slop" has become slop.

The trend you mentioned at the end of established value fading describes the pokemon games so well. I don't think in 20 years, when the kids of today are nearing 30, i don't think they will launch Scarlet and violet again and fall in love with it all over again. I think they will have mostly forgotten whatever it meant to them at the time. Let's be real the pokemon company is making the vast majority of their revenue from merchandise and not from the games, but they are what built the franchise's fanbase and what will determine to a large extent, what it will be in the future. If they had any sense, they would spend so much more and perhaps even lose money on these games and make children life long fans, because they will pay them back tenfold.

Andor is like anti-slop, it's deliberately designed to make sure the viewer is paying attention.

I've been noticing this descent for years. I call it "fanficification." basically, the creation of new art with a focus on it already having an existing fandom & source material rather than the art itself. fans are brought in by the list of AO3 tropes advertised & they never read anything for the story itself, mainly because most popular novels (booktok shit) now are never made with a coherent plot in mind, just the tropes. they're written like a fanfiction--characters & locations that are already established, just with new tropes the writer wants to experiment with. anyone who reads regularly & more than just these types of novels will recognize this as bad, but tons of people just started reading again during the pandemic & literally don't know their standards should be higher. these novels get more money than anything, & so publishers actively push authors to write them (this is an actual problem I've seen authors complain about, grieving their careers because they won't turn their novels into a bad, reskinned fanfic). it's created a horrible feedback loop of publishers pushing for dumber novels & readers not realizing their reading comprehension, attention span, & media literacy isn't getting any higher. it's the equivalent of puzzle manufacturers reducing the amount of pieces over the years to save money until every puzzle is just two pieces, & anyone who says "hey wait a minute" gets attacked for bullying people who only do puzzles for the pictures printed on them. like, if you want the picture just buy the picture, but I was here for the puzzles & I can't even have that anymore. even if they started making puzzles how they used to, everyone who either grew up with or got too used to the 2 piece puzzles would find it off-putting because it's forcing them to stretch muscles they let atrophy (I've been seeing this every time a genuinely good movie, like The Wild Robot, comes out. people are complaining it's too complicated & forces them to pay attention). it fucks me up disclaimer to say that I am a writer of both original fiction & fan fiction. I am not claiming every human has low reading comprehension & I am oh so smart, just that it's a trend I & others I've seen talk about this have noticed lately. people just aren't interacting with art the same.

2:10 This is the least appealing synopsis for anything I have ever read.

Netflix did a price hike about a year ago, and I cancelled my sub. I don't have cable or anything, either. I usually just watch Roku, Pluto, youtube, or whatever. No subscription services for me. ....Then again, being broke helps you keep unnecessary purchases to a minimum!

Its amazing how getting rid of netflix in 2023 lost me nothing in cultural zietgiest. Disney + and Paramount get me media im excited about, but nothing is making me want to go back to Netflix the way something like Glass Onion did. I left, and more than likely wont ever go back at the price points they are charging

I haven't heard of an industry term for "I'll keep [verb]ing your service until I don't, ever again." I'd like to suggest that we call this point "the invisible ledge", a point of no return at which a service goes from kinda passively acceptably bad, to poor enough that people actively leave. By the point you pierce the invisible ledge, your product is already so bad that people won't make the active choice to join or come back. IMO, Facebook is near that ledge and X (nee Twitter) probably just crossed it this year. Joining is an active decision. Capitalists need to understand that LEAVING an established product is an active decision as well - and a quality signal that they should keep a close eye on.

Shad is hilariously dumb in so many ways.

I now feel a little ashamed that I have this playing in the background while I am working.

Just a suggestion, but maybe the problem is Capitalism.

11:06 I like what a video pointed out. Taking care of your family and doing a job is the bare minimum and he complains about it and yet he's supposed to be a good husband and father? Compare this to when Maggie was born and Homer willingly quit his dream job without complaint, begged Mr. Burns for his job back, and when they put a plack up that says he'll be there forever he puts pictures of Maggie up and makes it read, "Do it for her." That's what a good husband and father does. Not complain about it and then get praised for it.

In the 90s, this was called "selling out".

Wonder why all these videos on slop content came out so soon together. slop of slop? sloppiest slop i ever dun slopped perhaps?

I haven't been blindly buying new records for years now, not even of my favorite artists, unless they pre-release some tracks that I really like. But usually, it takes time for me to get into something new, and I am more inclined to buy older albums that have proven themselves (in my ears) than new ones I'm not sure will stand the test of time. I've also been thinking for a long time about how the NEXT album AFTER the breakthrough album of an artist would probably sell even better because it supposed to be the next hot thing, even if fewer people like it in the end. So, stupid record company executives seeing only numbers might push them in a certain direction and shit. Or at least that's how I imagine it being the case before streaming and mp3s. I'd also think that the internet and it's distribution methods have been a true blessing for music and all kind of media content from diverse independent artists, but I guess after so many years it's now infinitely harder to stick out and get a piece of that pie... so maybe slop is just the logical corporate reaction to this problem - don't try to stick out at all, just tick as many boxes as possible and maximize "consumability".

_"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."_ - some guy, a little optimistic at the end there

I think Ben had one point thought, and that was pointing out that the twin sister twist in the middle is weird, almost like a deus ex machina. It is interesting but, without any clear clue before the shot, onw could say it appears from nowhere. I mean, there ARE clues, but like i say, not CLEAR clues, in a movie that sells that "All is in fornt of the audience, is the audience that wants to look for something deeper" one might spect a dialogue like "Andy, i didn't remember you do this stuff before" or: Hellen: I am allergic wine Lionel: Didn't you drink brands like this like two times at week? Hellen: Well i... Duke: Oh, stop it!, if one says it is allergic, it IS an allergic!