Man, I am truly so so sick of watching my friends get laid off, over and over.
This isn't an existential crisis for me right now so much as a cry of exhausted desperation. This just keeps happening over and over to genuinely great people and it churns my stomach every time. No wonder so many people move out of coverage and crit into dev.
You know it's unstable industry when GAME DEV seems safer by comparison.
In conclusion: the meme about millennials all venmo-ing the same $20 around, but it's a relatively small group of writers/editors/etc. being forcibly bounced around from digital media corp to digital media corp.