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Things that aren’t coming back - irony - insight porn - premium mediocre - ‘blue collar tv’ style comedy (Larry the cable guy etc) - USA network style ‘blue sky tv’ (Psych, Burn Notice) - “startup culture” as a thing (though startups will continue) what else?
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Insight porn actually ended around 2013, right around when coined the term. Stuff I did in that genre after then felt like I was self-consciously larping my own older style (premium mediocre internet of beefs)
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Earnesting. Everybody is now super earnest. Nothing is trivial, everything is important, interestingness is for frivolous middle aged Gen Xers. Young people will read 100 papers on the chemistry and physics of how paint dries, inbetween carefully perfected tiktok dances.