• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Viewership data backs this up: 65 percent of what 16-to–34-year olds watch is library TV, not new series. In other words, the dominant youth audience isn’t discovering new Hollywood shows — they’re rewatching old ones.

    Good. Right?

    The incredible TV backlog that (formerly) went largely unwatched is kinda insane. They don’t “expire”. But Gen Z has access, and apparently, awareness/searchability too.

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      17 hours ago

      There are SO MANY triple-A levels shows with definitive endings that there’s no point in wasting time on new stuff unless you want to.

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        16 hours ago

        Another motivation would be pop culture, e.g. talking about ‘popular’ TV shows to friends, but that’s kinda faded and fragmented too.