One thing that confuses me about this site is...

I think you're right.

I'm less and less likey to read about stuff I havent seen yet here - because I know its best to enjoy it first like a normal person before coming here to have a load of complainers tell me why it was shit.

Complaints generate clicks.

The internet would wither away if people weren't riled up about this or that.

And I'm going to complain about you not having capitalized the letter H at the start of your thread - are you a barbarian or something?

My intent was not to start some sort of flame war or the like, but instead to point out if one really examines this era of availability of programs and movies, viewers really are in an unprecedented golden era of accessiblilty to so much entertainment and content, with even much of it free, but somehow, this is so easily overlooked in my opinion.

This is especially evident for those of us that grew up in an era where access to these items did not exist. In my growing up, if you missed a program or movie, it was wait a year before a re-run, if at all. Especially, if in a region where cable was not available or a region with limited television channels.

And then came streaming all these years later and WOW. Programs and films are now accessible from every place in the world and often times, very good stuff is easily found in searches and this doesn't even touch the subject of pirated programs on the Internet if one so chooses to seek them out.
Then, if you view threads here, it is almost the negative posts seem to outnumber those where people discuss more positive things (really, just glance at the post headlines under a topic - it is there).

As for those that claim most of what is out there is garbage or crap, yes, there is a ton of it, but if one looks around there is so much more good content to be found and especially if one can deal with subtitles. This includes not only new shows, but streaming allows for the discovery of classics of both TV and film. And frankly, even if all shows streaming or available were only good shows, no person could sit through all the good stuff in a lifetime. There are just too many out there.

I guess perspectives matter quite a bit, especially when one has the contrast of broadcast television mainly consisting of the big three networks and PBS and when TV wasn't 24/7 and of today where viewing opportunities are endless.

I know. Just about every movie board has someone that constantly complains they don't like the movie of the board they are on. It gets annoying.

You need to understand most of the users on here seem to be 40-65 years old, with many having a more conservative political leaning.

A lot of the complaining is simply nostalgic whining from people who are getting old. All the complaining about how modern movies suck, CGI sucks, digital cameras suck, new actors suck, non-white actors suck is just whining from people who miss 'the good old days'.

You're correct that the present is the best time period for media consumption, the ease of access to pretty much every show or movie you could think of. Every week more and more shows and movies are released, with all the old 'classic' content still there (some people act like they get erased whenever something new comes out!). Still that won't stop some people on here reminiscing about VHS rental stores back in the 80s, or how it was better to be a movie fan in the 90s than today... even though they can access any 90s movie they want whilst having all the content released after that right at their finger tips too.

No complaints are required here.
The whole world is a total shitshow and I’m the big clown in the center ring…I’m endlessly entertaining and I laugh at all of it. Join me, we’ll juggle and do somersaults with our big floppy shoes, we are forever clowns,. We own this arena buddy, Fuck ‘em.

In terms of movies, Hollywood has turned to utter shit, spewing out low quality crap stuffed with patronising and divisive woke propaganda. Expect people to call that out.

TV has a similar problem although it did have a Golden Age 15-ish years ago, but that has largely died down. You might get a decent show every now and then, but there’s every chance it’ll get cancelled, or worse - turn into low quality woke garbage as a bait-and-switch.

The fact that there’s more slop now isn’t a good thing. Quantity does not = quality.

People will rightly call out dogshit and trying to gaslight that into some kind of irrational ‘complaining’ won’t work.

If there’s more of that on this site then it’s because dissenting opinions are actually allowed here, unlike Reddit.

I don't think voicing valid critiques of the enormous amounts of media available is "complaining" per se; if anything, it makes a lot of sense that having more to consume means there'll be more to critique, as so much is being pumped out so quickly that quality is bound to be compromised.