>>4314064Zoomies want the experience, not the service.
They've grown up all their lives blasted with snoy tech bullshit that promises to change the world but doesn't make a fucking difference in how they feel that night
Then they see old tech from the 90s and early 2000s that barely works but gives them an opportunity to do dumb shit with friends and an aesthetic to match without marketing BS like over 9000 megapixels
These products had marketing originally too, but
1) the improvements those marketings promised actually significantly changed the capabilities of technology. Going from 5mp to 10mp to 16mp is huge. But after 20mp you start hitting diminishing returns hard, and past 24mp you don't get a meaningfully better image unless you're cropping heavily AND printing, rather than just sharing primarily through social media. And
2) the marketing is culturally disconnected. It's an artifact to them. To them it's not much different than a millennial or gen x being entertained by the differences in foreign tv, or how millennials appropriated hippie culture in their late teens and early 20s.
Not to mention, I think the purpose of products in the 90s and early 2000s were quite a bit different. Real consumer products existed back then.
So yeah, zoomies are looking for CCD cameras, a lot of them have looked into and discovered the subtle differences in the resulting image. But they don't want to fucking pay for that shit. The point isn't the resulting image, it's about the experience getting there.
