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kleinbl00  ·  3216 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 10, 2016

Glad I'm jumping into the right business. Friend of mine wrote the script for Maze Runner. He ended up with the same manager who dropped me. He's got like three projects set up by Charlize Theron. But his work is largely being driven by authors.

It occurs to me that as the 'boomers die, narrative television dies with them. The average age of TV viewers is 44, while the average age of broadcast TV viewers is 53. And I've done lots of work for Smosh and the like and the thing is - big, stupid, overblown facial expressions and physical humor and jokes with zero subtlety not only works when your screen is 5" or less, it works when your native tongue is emoji.

I spend my summers observing young people who are deprived of their phones and internet for up to 12 weeks. They still speak in memes and hashtags. It's not that people are getting worse at communicating with each other, they're just getting better at communicating with people they'll never meet.