There was an article in The Walrus which I stumbled across on Twitter titled "I’m Sick of Reboots and Rewatches and You Should Be Too" and I had a lot of thoughts I wanted to share; I was originally going to tweet this reaction in a thread but it grew in length to the point where I thought a blog post would better suit, and the topic touches on the nature of writing and the creative process so I thought it would be relevant to share here.
I have disagree quite hard with this idea of abandoning old ideas and old content and focusing solely on innovation. My retort firstly comes on the basis that most people who consume old content aren't experiencing it for the first time, but rather they are reliving their past experiences of that content. The vast majority of people don't go back and explore old content they have not already seen - reboots and remakes reach new audiences.
Drawing from my experience of content creation, of which this isn't the first blog I have run, indeed there have been many I have published over the years and their syndication varied. Some reached a few dozen people, some a few hundred, and some a few thousand. There are analytics scripts and server logs that are accessible to the publisher [me] that vary depending on the platform but they all generally provide insight into how you the reader explore the content provided here and one thing remains consistent, old content is generally ignored. You may occasionally land on an old post from a search result in Google but you'll jump to the home page after reading it and read only recent content, the remaining old content is rarely explored.
