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Ryan Broderick

@broderick

Founder of Garbage Media, where I write the award-winning Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host the Panic World podcast. They're both really good.

New York, I guess Katılım Aralık 2008
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
People were not actively reading The Lottery in 2008 lmfao. What you're noticing is that popular media used to be made by educated people being paid real salaries to make it. Unlike now, where everything you watch is stupid low effect garbage made by random people in their cars.
tonsured pussy@sweetseaslug

Kind of funny to see all this discourse about literacy and then catch a south park rerun from 2008 that makes extended references to and quotes shirley jackson’s the lottery. Like yeah wow people did used to read.

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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
The friendly folks over @beehiiv gave us a sneak peek of cool stuff they've built. We can’t talk about the details just yet, but we can say that we are very excited for the upcoming launches! Register and tune in to the Summer Release Event on July 16! beehiiv.com/summer-release…
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
@gilly Me too! Just wish I could have seen it better.
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Gil Kruger@gilly·
@broderick man i loved obsession's use of light and shadow
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
Finally saw both: -Backrooms was technically impressive, prettier, and better paced. Would watch again. -Obsession had a tighter script, better characters, and was scarier. But it suffers from orange sludge lighting and is a meaner, nastier film I don't want to ever watch again.
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
@BobbyAllyn @lyzl @cwarzel There aren't any because the platforms don't want people to know how popular stuff is anymore because then we'd realize that very little of what we see on those platforms is actually popular and/or matters. Which would sorta break how society works now lol.
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Bobby Allyn
Bobby Allyn@BobbyAllyn·
yeah my algo is hyper-tuned to journos, and i work at NPR, so probably fielded more Qs about it than other reporters, but i was struck by how many not very online people were asking me about it. i just checked Nexis and there were nearly 70 articles on it in last 24 hours. i guess if grading on a curve of media stories, this doesn't rank up there as the most insular. but what even are the right non-anecdotal, not-just-your-own-timeline metrics for this?
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
@lyzl @cwarzel @BobbyAllyn Yeah, based on my own network of friends and family, basically nothing that happens on this site and, also, news sites in general makes it way to them anymore. The "news" for most non-journalists I know is whatever they happen to get served on Instagram or maybe YouTube.
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Lyz Lenz@lyzl·
@broderick @cwarzel @BobbyAllyn I am developing a rule called the "Love Island rule" where you have to ask your friend who is the most ardent watcher of Love Island if they've heard of a news story, and that's how you know if it's saturated the gen pop market.
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
@cwarzel @lyzl @BobbyAllyn Had a rare offline-ish day yesterday and only know it happened because I opened X right as it was being talked about and until this thread today there's been no evidence in my feeds that it ever happened. I imagine for people who aren't following journos it never happened at all.
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
It's been memoryholed, but in the early days of digital video it was actually extremely uncool to look like you knew how to be on camera. Especially if you were what we'd now call a "hipster." Video was for tryhards. It wasn't until 2012 when Vine hit that this started to change.
Rick Paulas@rick_paulas

Fascinating artifact of the very narrow time frame when video capture was ubiquitous but awareness of how to appear on video was not yet quite there

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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
So I started watching it. It's broadly fine. A lot of older actors who are too good for the script. A lot of ugly orange and blue car commercial cinematography. Whatever. Used to that. But the score was actually so bad I had to turn it off. Like distractingly awful. Bizarre.
What's on Netflix@whatonnetflix

THE BOROUGHS has been canceled at Netflix after a single season. Viewership is the reason with the show notably tracking below titles like OBLITERATED and THE WATERFRONT. 🔗 whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-borou…

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kate bush’s husband
kate bush’s husband@airbagg3d·
Hollywood agencies are scouring Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via @THR)
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
@TaylorLorenz When your inside Substack's ecosystem it's very hard to imagine what life is like outside of it, but I promise you, like 90% of the growth problems you're describing here are because of Substack and the userbase they've built. Things are much easier outside their gated community.
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Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz·
I can't explain how frustrating it is to spend time doing original reporting only to lose subscribers. Meanwhile political influencers who feed people whatever slop confirms their belief make millions. I feel so depressed honestly idk what the point of anything is anymore
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Ryan Broderick@broderick·
It's kind of wild that the only "fantasy" series to really take a risk moving the story forward like this is Avatar The Last Airbender, which I think actually kind of crushed it with Legend Of Korra's Bender Hong Kong/Gilded Age. Even if the actual story had some issues.
Joe Flaherty@josephflaherty

It's weird how the Game of Thrones people can't figure out how to move the story forward. GRRM just regimagines classic moments of English history: HotD = The Anarchy AKoSK = Ivanhoe GoT = War of the Roses Make a GoT Tudors. Do Sansa as Elizabeth. Or timeskip and have Sam Tarly's grandson be a Cromwell figure. Flip the Hundred Years' War and have Westerosi Joan of Arc. Keep going until you have a midwife riding a dragon to Fleabottom.

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