Viewership data backs this up: 65 percent of what 16-to–34-year olds watch is library TV, not new series. In other words, the dominant youth audience isn’t discovering new Hollywood shows — they’re rewatching old ones.
Good. Right?
The incredible TV backlog that (formerly) went largely unwatched is kinda insane. They don’t “expire”. But Gen Z has access, and apparently, awareness/searchability too.
Hollywood ignored Gen z for years, and when they started finally making content for them it was pandering and clearly approved by committee. I’m not surprised they’re struggling to find a Gen z audience, Gen z from what I have seen have left Hollywood for the most part. They get their content from social media and YouTube. Hollywood ignored them for so long that they moved on. It’s only now that they’re a large demographic that they started caring
I’m a late gen X. You aren’t wrong. Millenials were also largely ignored as well. Once they aged out of the Disney channel/Nickelodeon range. Traditional media was a wasteland for them. They went and built their own media on sites like YouTube. I’m not typical for a gen X. Most of my viewing is YouTube. I have access to Netflix HBO and Disney. That’s mostly for family. I haven’t watched anything on Netflix in years. I did recently watch the gun superman on HBO when I remembered it. But most of the time I’m watching LGR, Jan Beta, Adrian Black, Action Retro, Joe Scott, Veronica Explains, vivziepop, kurzgesagt, one of many many PBS channels. Not to mention long-form podcasts like behind the bastards, pod save America, et cetera, et cetera.
What would you characterise as content written specifically for Gen Z?
It’s been around before Gen Z, and isn’t necessarily targeted at them, but: anime
The recent live action Goosebumps reboots
Well, you should probably ask Gen Zers that question.
Well I asked the other user because they seemed to have an idea.
The only thing I can think of is like shows that are specifically generational, ie about young-adults/teens but set in the 2020s. But I would suggest that not everyone specifically wants that.
Like, is Pluribus a “Gen-Z” show? Is Andor? Is House of the Dragon? Is Twisted Metal?
I don’t even think many shows now fit a “generation” template.
Oh no I’m not playing that game, that’s leading into an argument that I’m not going to have
Tbf I wasn’t asking that in a specifically argumentative way, it’s just the notion is lost on me. To me most shows made in the last decade aren’t aimed at any particular generation - and anyone of any age grou, if they had the interest, could enjoy it.
The only shows I would identify as ‘generational’ would be stuff that is specifically about a specific age-block in a specific time-setting. So a teen drama/YA drama or comedy made now would naturally be for Gen-Z. But if it was 15 years ago, it’d be Millennial.
Needs to be a maximum of 30 seconds long.
