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by baubino 180 days ago
On youtube, people are watching other people’s lives, often in place of living their own fully. I don’t think it’s a matter of big-budget movie vs youtube, but of fiction vs reality content. The general public isn’t interested in fictional stories anymore; they’re interested in something that seems like real life (even if that “reality” is as fictionalized as a big budget movie).
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Interesting, your point kind of reminds me of the reality TV boom.