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George Carlin was talking about this decades ago - Euphimisms
IMO, the content distribution has stayed the same, but content discovery has changed a lot. There is more of every thing. More flawed/yucky/ugly stuff and more sanitized garbage. It's just that when the recommendations systems don't know what you like, the sanitized garbage is pushed in your face more often than it used to be. The flipside is once you get into the ugly-offensive-flawed content, the recommendation systems will overwhelm you with that too.
It is about how content discovery changed. You can now eat straight sugar from the sachet, or straight black coffee. Our experiences aren't attenuated by having to all see the same 5 channels on network TV.
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