This fully explains why I no longer have any interest in pop culture, news, sports etc. anymore
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As just one example, from the early 90s as a teen I started noticing how mainstream films were become progressively... dirtier. Constant pushing of boundaries with regard to swearing, nudity, drugs. Gore had never bothered me funnily enough as it seems that for the time whilst it relied on practical effects, there tended to be a 'morality' at the core of horror/shockers that the protagonists' demises were justified by their transgressive behaviour. But even that went out the window with CGI and the ability to just make OTT albeit horribly fake bloody scenes for their own sake with minimal technical skill.
As regards to the swearing etc, I was very much into etymology and semantics and fascinated by expressive use of language, wit, nuances etc. As movies' dialogue became progressively cruder and basic, I quickly got jaded by it as there was no enrichment to found from wasting 90 minutes on such 'entertainment'.
This is an interesting phenomenon.
The extremist-Left will swear up and down that Video games/music/TV shows don't have an effect on violence or behavior in general.
Then in the next breath they will tell you that Alex Jones needs to be banned because he's promoting [insert random -ist/-phobe].
One thing to keep in mind is mass media outside of print is still only about 100 years old. Things were always going to be cheaper and more accessible. The leap from silent movies to personal video broadcasting is an absolutely amazing one and meant it was going to gain a more cultural focus than it had previously. Similarly, pornography became much more widely available and specific to it's audience.
This progress was always going to happen. The great failure is that it was captured and it no longer belongs to the people. It lives in a period of stunted growth now just replaying and reproducing the things that were popular at the time of this capture, no longer allowed to grow, no longer allowed to be the voice of the people directly.