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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Indeed, but I think it is attributable to our generally fragmenting attention economy. The Olympics was most meaningful when it was a collective event that we were all focused on together. When I was a kid that was the case. I remember sitting in rapt attention with not just my family but the whole neighborhood watching 100M sprints and other events. Now I would say a majority of people I know are paying little to know attention to the Olympics and are focused on a dozen other smaller things. The grandeur is clearly seeping away with each generation. The old world is dying and the new is still struggling to be born.
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
It's a divergence of content and collaboration – trends have changed where people consume more of the games from streaming, rather than local "watering holes" – bars, clubs, watch parties, but these sources are further fragmented: different countries with different rules and platforms, and practically none of them allowing live commenting or collaboration from viewers, so they retreat to their respective social platforms to comment into the void, where things get k-means clustered into their specific microcosms of viewpoints rather than shared amongst actual regional peers. But the streaming platforms will never allow live commenting or collaboration – the advertisers just cannot cope with the Greater Internet Dickwad theory juxtaposing the inevitable stream of shit from a small fraction alongside their suggestions to buy things we don't need.
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