I find it hard to take seriously the people who will hear news about physical media's decline, and pay lip-service to it like "oh nooo, physical media is dying that's baaad, DRM and stuff is dumb and we should be able to own things" and then they put their earbuds back in to continue listening to Spotify/Apple Music, which is the only way they listen to music, or watching their favorite show on Netflix, or playing their games on Xbox Game Pass, and it's like why even bother pretending to care about the death of physical media if you clearly don't actually care?
I'm not trying to be holier than thou because I, unlike the unwashed masses, spend lots of money on blu-rays, but you can't have it both ways. There is an inherent hypocrisy in decrying the decline of the market as you actively, knowingly participate in its decline.
If we wanna get real a big part of it is just that people are fucking lazy and I'm not trying to be insulting it's just Real and True and like I don't blame y'all for it; it is basically objective truth that It's Way Easier And Cheaper to just get stuff through a streaming service (which also means being poor is a valid reason to not be able to support physical media though if the market was well supported and popular you'd be able to get stuff secondhand for cheap). It's the same psychological trickery that's allowed corporations like Amazon to eviscerate other retail options and crowd out the market. People know it's bad - they're constantly reminded of that fact - but when push comes to shove, that tool/tech item/game/clothing/[insert any possible thing you can buy] is easily found on a site you already know, already have an account on with your payment info, that you might already be paying subscription money to anyways so you'd better get your money's worth, and bang you've already ordered it off Amazon before you finished thinking that thought.
I hope my point and mild frustrations are coming across well, I am still slightly stoned. But, like, seriously, if you're going to waste your breath/time decrying something bad, at least put your money where your mouth is.
