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So while DVR has been a thing for literally my entire adulthood having been introduced in 1999 I grew up in a world without it. In fact I grew up in a world that also had more content than any one person could watch simultaneously.
Something hit me today. I have recently started following a Show on YouTube that I had never heard of. It wasn't recommended by any of my friends and none of them knew what I was talking about when I mention it.
Now when I was a kid if you got into a show like Boy Meets World it meant there was some other show on another network that you would never see. I have never watched a single episode of Blossom.
What this means is that at school you would gravitate towards kids who liked the same stuff you did. Even in something like POGs there would be divisions of "Well I only get DC POGs you're like Marvel POGs"
Even though you're both into the same hobbies you're consuming different content. It feels like our history is full of sharing our content with others until everyone's watching it.
But everytime we invent a way like DVR, VCRs etc to share content with people who missed it we expand and create even more content. YouTube and other such streaming services introducing even more things to the point where it's not just my clothes coming back from the 90s. Now people are back to being separated in part by what content they consume.
Is there a subconscious need for this state built into all humans? Is it just a coincidence? Does it mean nothing?
Thoughts?
Something hit me today. I have recently started following a Show on YouTube that I had never heard of. It wasn't recommended by any of my friends and none of them knew what I was talking about when I mention it.
Now when I was a kid if you got into a show like Boy Meets World it meant there was some other show on another network that you would never see. I have never watched a single episode of Blossom.
What this means is that at school you would gravitate towards kids who liked the same stuff you did. Even in something like POGs there would be divisions of "Well I only get DC POGs you're like Marvel POGs"
Even though you're both into the same hobbies you're consuming different content. It feels like our history is full of sharing our content with others until everyone's watching it.
But everytime we invent a way like DVR, VCRs etc to share content with people who missed it we expand and create even more content. YouTube and other such streaming services introducing even more things to the point where it's not just my clothes coming back from the 90s. Now people are back to being separated in part by what content they consume.
Is there a subconscious need for this state built into all humans? Is it just a coincidence? Does it mean nothing?
Thoughts?
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