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Hayden Douglas's avatar

Have you noticed one of the top comedy cliches for Millennials and Gen-Z are 90's sitcom parodies?

I'd also add that younger people are being prevented from experiencing great art (pop or otherwise) from the past as inspiration. A combination of having a non-stop glut of "new" content and the shielding-from difficult or problematic material from the past. With three networks and some UHF stations to entertain me as I child I was exposed to all kinds of pop-art and entertainment from the 1940's on. I came home from church on Sunday in the mid-80s to be greeted with Little Rascals and Three Stooges shorts on television.

To me this deficiency is most visible in the drop off of Pixar and Disney storytelling, and the audience reaction to it.

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Mike Kidwell's avatar

Particularly in art, the ability to fail and grow is important. With all young comedians' content available for all the world to see and there in perpetuity, I wonder how many fledgling comedians had their career end before it even began because of something that would have maybe gotten them booed in a nightclub in the 90s, but wouldn't have become attached to them the way it does today.

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