rant · moment 17 of 18
Hollywood's Lost Power to Shape the Narrative
from Pizza Hut & Birkin Bags | The Tim Dillon Show #415 · #415
3 min
Tim gives an extended argument that Hollywood's decline as the top-down narrative-shaping institution of America, replaced by podcasts, TikTok, and YouTube, is an underdiscussed but hugely important cultural shift.
- Tim on Hollywood's inability to craft narratives and shape public opinion as the internet moves faster than the industry can control.
- Tightly controlled distribution methods in film and TV were instrumental in shaping narratives about war, peace, and economic reality.
- Algorithms and social media have replaced Hollywood's control, with millions of hours of DIY content uploaded constantly.
- Seven YouTube documentaries will exist about an event before Hollywood finishes making an unwatched movie about it.
- Young people don't watch movies or care about traditional media; they get information from podcasts, TikTok, and YouTube instead.
- Hollywood is no longer in the business of controlling the narrative, a shift people avoid discussing because it means admitting how they used to lie.
- The entertainment industry doesn't want to say their job was to lie to the public, but that's what the decline of their power actually represents.