Does anyone else feel like there's been a noticeable reduction in overall media quality over the years, and especially in recent years?
41 posts and 6 image replies omitted.When a new medium is founded the lowest fruit is plucked first. That's why the best music and paintings were made centuries ago. Good stuff may appear much later, but it takes much more effort, and will be heavily derivative. The same is true of technological innovation. You can think of it as an evolutionary search space. There's many ways to be dead, but only a few to be alive, and even fewer that works well.
>>776186>comparing the worst of the present with the best of the past isn't putting your thumb on the scale, it's "having eyes"ok buddy
>>777135csm (and jjk) is quite literally the best of the present tho. And Sakura isn't really the best of the past either, if I wanted to be a real dick I would have used Maccross Plus or something. Tourist.