Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170201003940/@comment-25936766-20170327124941

RayStrikeAbius wrote: To be fair, at this stage in human culture it is extremely difficult to come up with a name or alias that hasn't been done at least once somewhere before. Humanity has pretty much run out of original ideas. Nah, there's still plenty of original ideas left. The problem is that anime was a mistake. Jk, but the idea applies to far more than anime.

The real problem is not that there aren't any original ideas to follow anymore. The real problem is that people are not so willing to experiment these days. Many companies prefer to push out "tested-and-true" ideas that have worked before, instead of making new original content. And when they do make original content, if it's not Excellent in the eyes of the critics, they are often Axed.

Now, the quote I mentioned refers to anime, but the problem is equally present in the movie industry among others, though it varies by genre. In videogames, for example, there's creativity and unoriginality equally present.

Though recently more new stuff (or at least "not-overly-used-these-days" stuff) seems to be coming out. Not always good, but still.