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Also looking at the trajectory of Hollywood its all down, down, down. Award show ratings have been plummeting faster than a meteorite[1]. Box Office sales have been dropping for years and this was before covid, after covid sales are back but are at a level last seen since 2000! [1]. The quality of movies and most TV shows are abysmal and the numbers back this up. I feel the last decent movie I saw was Dune, and there are maybe 2-3 movies a year that are watchable. Hollywood is not a industry that tech should look to for guidance.

[1] - https://businessreview.berkeley.edu/award-shows-a-thing-of-t...

[2] - https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

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Do you know how much more there is to Hollywood than… wide release studio movies. Those are the most corporate of creative jobs. I won’t write a thinkpiece here, but if your only exposure to Hollywood is big box office movies that are released in every city in the US, you’re seeing just one slice of that industry. It’s like if you said tech as industry was SOLELY defined by FAANG, which also had a terrible year.

Nonetheless, Netflix is as much claimed by Hollywood as it is Tech. Apple too is thought as Hollywood-adjacent, as aside from Apple TV they’re also historically responsible for Pixar. Important to realize that working in tech does not mean every successful company is purely a tech company.

> The quality of movies and most TV shows are abysmal and the numbers back this up. I feel the last decent movie I saw was Dune, and there are maybe 2-3 movies a year that are watchable.

Hollywood puts out maybe 2-4 "blockbuster" high-marketing-budget movies that are decent or better per year, sure, but the US film industry overall, and the smaller-splash side of Hollywood, produces probably 3-4x that many (and that's just the US—there are usually a bunch of decent-or-better foreign productions per year, too)

The last decade has been referred to in Hollywood as the "content explosion" because of how much more content (and money from it) is being produced. The decline of certain media is not evidence of a decline in industry, the opposite is true.

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