Hollywood ignored Gen z for years, and when they started finally making content for them it was pandering and clearly approved by committee. I'm not surprised they're struggling to find a Gen z audience, Gen z from what I have seen have left Hollywood for the most part. They get their content from social media and YouTube. Hollywood ignored them for so long that they moved on. It's only now that they're a large demographic that they started caring
I'm a late gen X. You aren't wrong. Millenials were also largely ignored as well. Once they aged out of the Disney channel/Nickelodeon range. Traditional media was a wasteland for them. They went and built their own media on sites like YouTube. I'm not typical for a gen X. Most of my viewing is YouTube. I have access to Netflix HBO and Disney. That's mostly for family. I haven't watched anything on Netflix in years. I did recently watch the gun superman on HBO when I remembered it. But most of the time I'm watching LGR, Jan Beta, Adrian Black, Action Retro, Joe Scott, Veronica Explains, vivziepop, kurzgesagt, one of many many PBS channels. Not to mention long-form podcasts like behind the bastards, pod save America, et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah I can't remember too many built for millennials. I want to say How I met your Mother, but we were just a bit too young for that. I don't know of any other sitcoms that were really for our age group growing up. It's a trend, hollywood ignores the youth then is upset when they're older that they don't want to watch their stuff at all
What would you characterise as content written specifically for Gen Z?
Well, you should probably ask Gen Zers that question.
Well I asked the other user because they seemed to have an idea.
The only thing I can think of is like shows that are specifically generational, ie about young-adults/teens but set in the 2020s. But I would suggest that not everyone specifically wants that.
Like, is Pluribus a "Gen-Z" show? Is Andor? Is House of the Dragon? Is Twisted Metal?
I don't even think many shows now fit a "generation" template.
It's been around before Gen Z, and isn't necessarily targeted at them, but: anime
Oh no I'm not playing that game, that's leading into an argument that I'm not going to have
Tbf I wasn't asking that in a specifically argumentative way, it's just the notion is lost on me. To me most shows made in the last decade aren't aimed at any particular generation - and anyone of any age grou, if they had the interest, could enjoy it.
The only shows I would identify as 'generational' would be stuff that is specifically about a specific age-block in a specific time-setting. So a teen drama/YA drama or comedy made now would naturally be for Gen-Z. But if it was 15 years ago, it'd be Millennial.
This is such a weird trend in general in the past few decades. We went from typifying things by decade to typifying them by generation, which makes no sense whatsoever because these generations are still alive. It's not like everything from 2000-2010 was made for millennials specifically and no one else is allowed to watch them. Shows might have general target age ranges that are taken into consideration in marketing, but amazingly people don't stay the same age their entire lives and targeting has very little to do with who might actually enjoy a show.
The concept that a specific piece of entertainment, terminology, fashion, or idea belongs to one specific generation and only that generation is extremely silly. Each generation doesn't just wither up and die once the next generation hits their 20s or whatever. Likewise, there's nothing stopping a teenager from sitting down and watching Farscape and deciding they love it.
...millenials are old now; their lives are practically over anyway so it's not like they matter anymore...
Okay boomer.
What movie is that?
Well I do believe that in a narrow context, it does make sense to identify specific shows and films as "Millennial" or "Gen Z" based on the time they were released, and their focus on specific the lives of age-groups within the plot - as I referred to there. But mostly overall, you're absolutely right.
The recent live action Goosebumps reboots
Goosebumps predates Gen Z.
Do you know the series I’m talking about? 2023. Has Justin Long in it
Or are you saying more generally that it’s impossible for a reboot to target modern audiences?
I’m saying it’s not a particularly Gen Z thing. It appeals just as much to Millennials.
It’s impossible to make it through the first episode without the abundant gen z catering slapping you in the face. Just go watch it if you have any doubts
If you’re really saying it’s impossible for a new show to cater to a new audience because it’s based on an older series then I don’t have the energy to argue with you about it. Cheers
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.
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.
Another motivation would be pop culture, e.g. talking about 'popular' TV shows to friends, but that's kinda faded and fragmented too.
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