LogFAQs > #969152501

I just started using TikTok a few months ago, and I was already a little annoyed about how whenever something new came out on Netflix it would completely dominate popular content. All that "Chrissy wake up" shit was supremely annoying -- and years ago all the Tiger King stuff everywhere.

Right now what I'm super annoyed with is all the Dahmer stuff and zoomers coming at older millenials for their interests in true crime, among other takes regarding the Netflix series. Films and series based on true crime events are far from something new, and they were far from being exclusively a niche thing. Sure there have been tons of bad, straight to DVD films about Dahmer, Gacy, Manson, etc. over the decades - but there have been plenty of critically acclaimed, widely celebrated films about murderers. Badlands (1974), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and Profundo Carmesi (1997) off the top of my head. Where was this dialogue then?

Then people will say it's so soon since the murders? That shit happened in the '90s - over 30 years ago. In my previous examples - Starkweather committed his murders 18 or so years before Badlands (1974) was released, and Henry Lee Lucas was still in prison when Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) was released.

People literally mention the families, as if signing on Netflix is unavoidable? Surviving family members are at least in their forties or fifties now, if not much older -- they're likely not flipping through TikToks or sitting at home exclusively binging Netflix. I'm 36 and it's my least used streaming service. My parents don't even know how to access most streaming services aside from Prime. Thinking that elderly people love TikTok and Netflix as much as you do is some weird, childish egocentrism type shit.

I just find it insanely annoying that we're at a point where the pool of media available to us is the largest it's ever been. New movies are being made constantly and with lower overheads. It's easier than ever to self release stuff. More and more old pieces of media are being rediscovered and preserved through better methods to rip vinyl and digitalize older films. The internet is at a point where there are more people than ever searching out and discovering lost media.
There is SO much available to us -- why the fuck do people only know or care about what's on Netflix? It's such an odd paradox.