I started thinking about the history of entertainment today and how it’s progressed over thousands of years. Specifically about how the technology used to transmit it has evolved. And how reactionary people are to each new development. In the last century there has been so much paranoia around new developing mediums like comics, film, television, and now video games.
It fascinates and baffles me how paranoid people are about these developments. Video games will inevitably become normalized over time as more and more generations grow up with them and age. The medium will also develop over time as its audiences change and grow. Genres develop and fall into obscurity only to come back again decades later in every medium and I feel video games are going to be no exception. Right now as younger gamers have grown up you see them demand games cater to them not really understanding that there’s younger gamers who will also grow up over time too. New genres develop as markets emerge manga is the perfect point of comparison for this. In Japan, they also had issues with Japanese comics readerships aging and there were and still are attempts by older generations especially in government positions to keep it contained to young readers as a medium.
Regardless of their attempts however it evolved just the same, right now there are manga magazines for housewives and men well into their fifties. It’s all just different methods of dispensing media people scream about it as the end times decades pass people realize it wasn’t the end times and have likely forgotten about it and have moved onto something else to overreact too. Such is the frustrating flow of time.
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