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I want to like this article and to share it with my relatives to help explain what I am so angry about. But it is so thick with irony and deep-cut references that even I, a long-time extremely online dude, had trouble parsing all of it.
It's kinds of like a surface scrape of something very obvious. "I don't like what these guys are producing. They're scrambling & changing things up, people may stop buying it, and it will go away."
Err, OK. Big whoop. Maybe it's because I'm old, and I've been through several cycles of seeing favorite media/hobbies reach a point where they declined and I didn't want them any more, but this is a totally normal process. Every industry gets threatened, goes in some direction, and sometimes they get out-competed. c.f. radio, newspapers, TV documentaries, etc. ad infinitum.
For example, we lost channels like Discovery, Bravo, History Channel, A&E to reality television... and it's been replaced by independent creators on Youtube. Who knew, independent creators like The History Guy, CGP Grey, Crash Course, Smarter Every Day, LTT, Tech Ingredients could make more enjoyable content -- and probably more accurate and complete -- than big companies?
I enjoyed the writing. It was entertaining and made its points forcefully.