u/effective_p0wer

i've met more than a few, typically wearing commercial band shirts (multiple lol) and all kinda sporting the same hairstyle if not expression on their faces. they all like this variation of the same meme humor. i can tell the style came directly off the rack at urban outfitters from the shit theyve been selling since 2020, like those pseudo-vintage ford racing and beer shirts. is this like a new "safe guy"? did they make these out of another type? it's not exactly "performative male" which is openly feminine and the obvious successor to a type of 2010s skinny jeans hipster but is this just an expression of another type of modernized hipster type or is it a hipsterized version of an older bar scene character (aka their fathers' style)? discuss their origins and trajectory

there's this thing called HDTV and you just plug an antenna in to your TV and pick up all the channels. it's TV but you can use it as exactly what the tech behind it does: it's just a free over-the-air stream. it's not the same thing as cable, which has mostly the same content for $130+/mo (ripoff.) right now, absolutely nobody my age has even heard of HDTV, which means that you guys are even less likely to have heard of it unless you grew up poor. all of the content on television is for baby boomers and there's nothing for young people to watch even in the best TV markets. however, it's possible to produce television content, and it's even easier to get a local market to adopt it. you guys will be college freshmen in my market as my subchannel gets off the ground... so, what sounds like something good on TV?

my best guesses for what you might like to watch are short-form content blocks and "TV streamers," a totally new idea. (concepts like chat can be ported to TV with almost no effort.) i also think that you would probably like to get involved at a station that broadcasts content for your generation and make that content yourselves in their studio rather than having a bunch of millennial overlords deciding what's best for you. you may even like a lot of the more specifically zoomer-focused content, which is what i'm making; shit like atlanta and bojack horseman, which were popular ten years ago and continue to define what people my age want to watch.

you see, when the internet ceases to be usable for humans because the data network is just going to be used as the plumbing for AGI, we are all going to have to start watching TV and DVDs again for our content fix lest we have a content diet of 100% AI slop. make peace with it and start looking forward to something healthier and more dynamic

i was talking about this a few days ago and then cloudflare announced it. lol

my dad likely has cyclospora and said he had JW halls salad bar and a gyro salad from papa dukes three days before he got sick and doesn't know which it might've come from... the answer is whichever of those two stocks taylor farms, of course, but be on the lookout because it's happening here.

i'm a big degrowth freak which means i like a bit of tech without smart features, so i got a spectre "basic TV" (non-smart TV) and, unable to afford cable, also ended up getting an ATSC 1.0 tuner, which i thought was going to yield me the local affiliates of the big three (important for the news tbf.) i was wrong. you get 85 channels on ATSC 1.0 in my city and about 10% of the content is watchable. the thing is that if i didn't know about this, absolutely nobody does, because i actually pay a little bit of attention to TV as a medium and i was ignorant of it.

ATSC 1.0 is just a terrestrial high-definition video stream and the funny part is, it's actual the apex of television as a medium; this is probably the most technically mature version of TV, but it's also the least used and has dismal public awareness. ATSC 1.0 it's inherently capable of anything, but absolutely 100% of the content is for Baby Boomers. this can change. i'm kinda working on something rn so i don't want to spill my trade secrets yet but TV could seriously pander to people and literally give them what they want in any given city. adam friedland could become a TV mainstay lol. this whole thing could easily be supported by local advertisers on TV. someone should maybe try this in BK...

if some political force organized a rally in washington to tell the FCC to save television, we would probably be able to get them to open up new applications for the whole game: LPTV, class A, and commercial. right now, if you want a channel, you have to buy one or convince an existing channel to lease one of their subchannels to you, which is an extremely narrow point of entry. but if people actually wanted to sit down and watch real entertainment made by real people we could get it... probably. it's worth fighting for.

fuck ATSC 3.0 btw it's just a broadcast industry astroturf to make more money with targeted ads :( thankfully it's not catching on they're never gonna mandate a transition

i know the media types who will ultimately write that seminal "bojack horseman without animals that takes itself 20% more seriously and runs longer" are among us. who wants to write SHOWS??