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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or just be happy with the niche. Not everything needs to be global.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

But its niche is disappearing, so it either finds a new niche, or it goes out of business. Its niche was always “middle-aged people’s childhood memories,” but how many of today’s middle-aged people grew up listening to radio shows and watching old men sitting around cracker barrels?

Hell, I AM middle-aged, and one of my grandfathers was a sharecropper who eventually started his own corner store, so I SHOULD be exactly their demographic… but my childhood memories are of Charlie’s Angels, Radio Shack computers and Run DMC. Their niche is almost nonexistent now.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

That’s a weird way of saying your grandpa never took you to Cracker Barrel.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

but how many of today’s middle-aged people grew up listening to radio shows

THE Shadow knows! MUAHAHAHAHA!

Am middle aged too, grew up on nerdy old shit. Don't forget to stock up on Blue Anthracite coal and Chesterfields!

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Radium water or nothing! They'll take it away over my dead body!!

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Cracker Barrel was never global. It has always been a strictly US phenomenon.