In the past, say, dozen years, the way in which we consume media has become niche, and corridored straight to us.
Back in 1996, you graduated in a year when everyone would have seen the same yada-yada bit on Seinfeld and then talked about it the next day.
In 2026, what we see are our own narrowed corridors of media, brought to us twofold by the algorithm and the ease with which we can navigate to exactly what interests us.
Sometimes it feels good to find your place until…until you realize it’s isolating.
As an elder Millenial I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that the high school grads I employ grew up post-YouTube and have been relying on LLMs for four years