Discussion: The Late Capitalist Realism of YouTube Rewind 2018

okay like i’m all about people other than ppl in this subreddit being exposed to critiques of the culture industry bc ur right that it is industrialized and it is a tool used to naturalize capitalism yayaya totally agree w u, BUT i also think there ARE people working in media who find ways to slip through the cracks of corporate media’s ideological censorship to make critiques of it and of the culture industry at large... also i get that a lot of critical theory has been written from a v paranoid perspective like even if the media ppl r consuming now is neoliberal as fuck like its part of capitalist culture like its not that surprising if ur consuming media produced by an oligopolized industry that’s only shrinking in terms of diversity of ownership then like of course it’s going to be ideological in nature

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