Things boomers are nostalgic for:

❎️ the ways things actually were better.

✅️ inconvenience.

Or getting in trouble and missing an episode of your favourite show, which happened to be the most crucial episode to watch that season.

Except Netflix has ads now, too.

Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long. Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies. Time for the next thing.

They also won't know what its like to watch a movie on DVD and all the cool features they used to come with

Speaking as an elder millennial who has had both, I don't miss flow tv at all. The only thing I ever watch live is sports, usually only Liverpool matches, which I mute and tab away from during half time commercials.

In fact, if I come across an unskippable ad, I stop using whatever app/site/radish subjected me to it immediately.

Or the sudden realization that shared media experiences actually ties us together as a society

When you're growling along to a song on the radio and the dude in the next car is ripping an air guitar solo - you both look over and give 'the horns' -? Don't lie, that's almost spiritual

Hard to do when most people are plugged into their personal streams everywhere these days...

Kids of today are doing alright, they'll go to the shitter, look at their phone and smile when Discord pings them with

Radarr

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Movie Imported

Overview
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magicia...

Links
TMDb / Trakt / IMDb / YouTube

Don't worry, Netflix planning to add interstitial ads to their low tier plans

Ads on Netflix

I feel like this can still happen if they are watching live streams. Like Twitch stuff.

In the 90s you had to be careful not to touch the Nintendo while playing or else the game might crash. It was still better than today because you didn't need an internet connection to play your games.

Now the ads are 60sec? instead of 2.5min. Right now the time pressure to do your business is the hardest its ever been. Until they increase the ads again.

Me, who never had a Netflix era but still never experienced this.

Hmmm. Favourite show only on 2 times a year (Season), 2nd is replay of the same episode . Lots of unstoppable ads. No other way to watch it later. This went on for a couple decades.

Less TV’s and no one had a device. The battles for who got TV time were epic between my brothers and I.

Then VCR’s showed up. Recording show with commercials was the only way. You could fast forward but annoying.

Then Netflix and other streaming services would have no commercials and you could watch anytime. Golden age.

Now ads are back even if you pay. Guess we are back to cable era again. Regression sucks.

And I hope they never will.

The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.

Kids not having the Saturday morning ritual and being disappointed because golf.

The moral of the story is: no rusty banal or shitty memory is banal or shitty enough, for these postmodern kids nowadays to NOT commoditize it as "nostalgia". EXACTLY like their boomer parents with their own rusty banal or shitty items in their memory bank.

"I look around me, and the horizon seems to be at the same distance everywhere I look, therefore it must be obvious: I am at the center of the Universe."

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