We Need to STOP Consuming Soulless Corporate Content (Taylor Swift/Netflix)

We live in an era of infinite content - music, games, tv shows, films - all accessible to us easily on streaming service. This has both caused a massive oversaturation and a lowering of quality - which means we are now in the era also of Content Slop. We just want something to distract us for a moment, and aritsts and brands know this. They will put out art that feels like it was made by AI because they have lowered our standards so much we now don't really care about quality - as long as we are getting something fed to us. Like a pig eating slop.

.00:00:00 - The Era of Content Slop
00:02:30 - Are my videos are content slop????
00:04:50 - The Decline of Netflix and Disney
00:08:10 - What is Content Slop?
00:14:30 - Taylor Swift's music is slop
00:17:40 - The Rise of Gaming Slop
00:19:10 - Netflix are making slop on purpose
00:22:00 - They know we love slop

[NotACat]

The problem isn't that slop exists. It's when that's all there is. Not everything should be a cinematic masterpiece, but that shouldn't push out completely there being cinematic masterpieces.

[thrillhouse]

It was over as soon as people started calling stuff “content” that’s when the robots won.

[GreenerOdin]

As a nearly 40 year old geriatric, I can tell you that this not the rise of content slop, this is a return to it.
The 90s was peak slop in movies/shows/music and we are returning to it after the unusual blip that was the rise of the hipsters and prestige tv.
I'd argue it's unfortunately a return to the norm.

[GeteMachine]

Taylor Swift's content dumping is pretty much because she was trying to exploit loopholes with how the billboards work and with how unregulated it is with streaming, so everytime a song is climbing the charts and threatens her position, she would just release more and more of her stuff to block it. So that's how we got 30 different versions of the same thing. Her need to be unchallenged, and exploiting loopholes is what drives her insane rereleasing.

[pushingdaisies_]

Guilty, I’m sitting in the lab streaking bacteria onto agar plates while listening to this. Great vid!

[Naren]

I am lying in bed, headphones in, attending to every word you're saying. I'm old school like that.

[ericgeneric]

I teach college film courses and most of my students only watch MCU and random Netflix content. They are usually wary at first but end up loving the more original, thought-provoking films we watch and discuss: Parasite, Memento, 12 Angry Men, Blindspotting, etc.

[anthonymweti]

I'm glad to find out that I'm not the only person on earth who feels that way about Mr. Beast's content.

[GregorMcIntosh]

Case in point. Today Fortnite announced a collaboration with the Tesla Cybertruck. I am not kidding. It’s fucking real.

[homestylealchemy]

I love to do something fidgety like knitting or crocheting while watching a YouTube video or movie because I’m paying full attention while keeping my hands busy, but I don’t understand being on your phone or iPad while watching something. It blows my mind that film studios are actively feeding tech addictions when they dumb down their work. It sounds like they are taking part in their own self destruction.

[sheepewe]

As someone who can't divide my attention, the idea of having anything other than music playing when driving, cooking, gardening, playing games etc is so alien to me. Even music can be too much if its something I can get really into, or something I really dislike.

[maynardwayward]

It's thanks to the media monopolies that we have more slop than usual.

[gemarcus]

Just reminding everyone that Taylor Swift dated a 17 year old when she was 22

[HelenaIsis]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see bigger stars do horror films, since horror seems to be the only genre that still allows originality.

[audreytwo]

Jokes on you I'm already a hipster contrarian who hates everything popular. /j

[GothMusicLatinAmerica]

That "second screen" bit is so dystopian.

[shawnveneziano]

I was at the gym and playing video games while watching this. 10/10 content for gaming to.

[jlconnors]

This is why I got rid of my Netflix account last year; and I had Netflix streaming for at least a decade. Nothing interesting to watch on there anymore, prices gone up, and they don't even give you the full catalog.

[maynardwayward]

I don't know if Deadpool and Wolverine is slop though, just read an interview with Reynolds saying the crew were trying to re-create the lower budget vibe of producing the first one

[gornothdragnbone]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy are some of my all time favorite movies and they're total comfort to me. I put them on in the background when playing board games or reading.

It's definitely funny to think about using such a cinematic masterpiece as my slop.