Hollywood (the location) has always been skeazy/decrepit location (at least, after the 60s). Hollywood (the idea) is still going fine...other places have just developed their own media output too. One thing getting stronger doesn't mean the other is now sick, unless your only mental model is "defeatism". If anything, the US not being the only media producer in the world has made it easier for smaller/more indie/more culturally significant media to thrive in the US again.
As to Video Games, I don't even know how to tackle that. The US and Japan still dominate the video game market and have since the 80s (with the US solely dominating it before). And the American-led Independent/art games scene has been in it's golden age for about a decade now.
It's impossible to defend/explain something without a comparison point; but just your vague abstract comments are falsifiable on their face.
People can remember incorrectly or wrongly, and things can change. You don't have to explain the inaccuracies all the time. Sometimes its okay to tell a story or a moment from memory and be wrong or incorrect.
It would be like correcting your grandfather who told stories of walking up hill both ways in 4ft of snow. "But grampa, this area has _never_ received 4ft of snow." That's not the point, per se.
Or at least my $0.02.
You're either creating some non-existent argument out of bad faith, or have no idea what you're saying.
Sickly (being in ill-health) and unhealthy are essentially synonymous in this case. But sure, replace one for the other in your head, if you prefer. There's no point being pedantic about it.
> You can be 100% fit and have an unhealthy lifestyle at the same time.
Then it's not an unhealthy lifestyle, it's just one you find unappealing.
> The constant race to market dominance can easily divert you from producing creativ output but as a creative you always have to strike a balance.
And yet, I gave you two very obvious counter-examples of how the exact opposite is happening, specifically for American culture/life.
> Working as an engineer at google or facebook, paypal, airbnb just seems incredibly boring to me. This is probably my core point.
Cool, no one is asking or begging of you to move to the US. I don't live there nor care. However, the claims you made around that are still fundamentally inaccurate/warped.
To simplify the flaw in your logic, it is like if I said "I don't want to live in Germany because it has a larger percentage of Nazis than ever in history" and you responded "well no, that's obviously not true" and my response was then "Nazis are boring, that's my core point".
OP is trying to make a subjective point with his terminology. The words may be synonymous but words also carry subtext and other associations. They don't want counter examples. They don't want anyone to ask or beg them to move to the US. Who cares if the claims they made were inaccurate or warped? They are not teaching a class or writing a book but speaking off the cuff about memories. Logic is not the most important thing in the world, sometimes compassion and just listening to a story being told without pointing out every oddity is just how society works.
This is the market telling you to pick a different career.