My old way of finding footage was a lot more fun than clicking through thumbnails

I used to love the hunt. I'd go to estate sales in Spokane every weekend, buy a box of random VHS tapes for five bucks, and spend the evening going through them on my old Panasonic deck. You never knew what you'd get, a kid's birthday from 1992, a weird local commercial, maybe something truly strange. Now, it feels like I just scroll through online marketplaces looking at pictures of tape labels. I bought a lot labeled 'family trip' last month, and it was just a single, unopened copy of a Jane Fonda workout video. The surprise is gone. The physical act of finding and playing the tape was half the point. Has anyone else felt like the actual finding part has gotten less interesting?

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seanh9119d ago

Everything's just a product now, right?

avery80519d ago

Totally get that. Unfollowed a bunch of accounts that felt like ads. Helped a lot.