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What are you watching, listening to, and reading all the time?
I've pretty much completely stopped watching movies and TV shows. I've stopped reading American comics, and even webcomics, which used to be my jam, and most of my favorite artists have been canceled one way or another. I've stopped buying and playing Triple-A games.
We used to discuss the culture war fight over TV and movies; mostly we don't any more, but my observation is that looking back on those discussions, the critics of SJ have pretty much run the table. TV and Film have been reduced to bombed-out shells, with cratering audiences and cauterized fan-bases. How's The Witcher doing these days? How's Marvel? Star Wars? Star Trek? Disney generally? In the games space, we see former titans of the industry absolutely imploding; Ubisoft, Blizzard, Obsidian, Bioware, the list goes on and on. Comics aren't looking so hot, but I'll admit I mostly stopped paying attention years ago. My musical tastes are eclectic enough that I don't really have an opinion on how that field is going; maybe it's still rocking along in fine form? But in the fields I pay attention to, American culture seems dead as Dillinger.
I listen to a bunch of American standups do comedy podcasts, Tim Dillon, Stavros Halkias, Are you Garbage, Joe Rogan, Two bears on cave, etc.
I admittedly don't play many triple A games either. The indie games I play tend to be from all over. Canada, Sweden, and Poland are some of the recent ones in my library. I honestly thought they were American before I went and looked them up to be sure.
I am often reading things on Royalroad, which is owned by amazon. English is the main successful language on the website. Its hard to know what nationality many of the authors are. I think based on the ratings of many stories, that non first language english speakers do real badly. I'll sometimes go read Xianxia translations, but I almost prefer objectively shitty American stories to good translated stories.
For music I basically just listen to pop and rock. Sometimes British bands are good, but mostly its American super pop groups I'm listening to.
The one real area of american growth in culture is youtube. And I'm behind on those trends, but that is me getting old.
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