Jamie Watts

England

Deputy Editor at Thred

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Articles

A Minecraft Movie’s meme-shaped success

1 week ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Whether by design or not, the community feel engendered by Minecraft as a game has translated directly into the movie realm. According to those who’ve seen it, the movie essentially plays out like a big fan service almost inviting excitable fans to indulge and partake in the least appropriate of settings.
Gen Z is done with legacy media

2 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Research shows that Gen Z is avoiding traditional news due to an innate scepticism for the institutions delivering it. They also see the constant stream of negative content as being at loggerheads with a need to maintain good mental health. Legacy media is panicking, and rightly so. Blissful ignorance or doomscroll-induced anxiety? Pick your poison. Given how bleak a daily peruse through mainstream news has become, it genuinely feels like these are the only viable options.
Gen Z are officially the UK’s gym generation

2 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

One in six Gen Zers now subscribe to a gym membership in the UK. A desire for physical fitness isn’t the only reason why. Guinness or gains? More young people are choosing the latter than you’d expect. A record 11.5 million people aged 16 and over are now subscribed to a gym in the UK, according to UKActive’s latest report. The key demographic behind the boom, is Gen Z.
News avoidance has become huge internationally

3 weeks ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

The percentage of people who selectively avoid news has reportedly reached 39% globally. This is an increase of 10% in less than a decade. Blissful ignorance or doomscroll-induced anxiety? Pick your poison. It’s no secret that the state of the world is causing mass panic. Cost of living is on a continual ascent, the climate situation is perilously grim, war crimes are occurring on a daily basis, the threat of terrorism keeps simmering, and youth violence remains rife.
Celebrities promos go big on pay-to-pray app ‘Hallow’

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Whether intentional or not, it looked suspiciously as though the singer had been tasked with keeping Hallow users hooked for access, thereby turning non-subscribers into paid ones once their free trial period elapsed. It’s hardly a new marketing tactic (or scam, if you prefer), but there’s something about exploiting a person’s devotion to their faith that feels particularly grim.
The adult wrestling cult

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

‘you’re breaking the fourth wall!’Wrestling is massive again, and I’m not quite sure how that happened. Every casual conversation I have with a group of lads seems to inevitably turn to how John Cena recently turned heel. Having not tuned in at 5 in the morning, my immense powers of deduction tell me that his character arc has probably gone from good to bad. I’m 30, my daughter is up at the crack of dawn, and I NEED my sleep.
Trump is erasing public climate change data

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

A matter of weeks later, their prudence would be vindicated. The Future Risk Index was scrubbed from existence for only a matter of hours before it popped up on GitHub free of charge. Rajan Desai and Jeremy Herzog, who both work at consulting firm Fulton Ring, claim they were tipped off that the online resource was in danger. They immediately started grabbing screenshots and downloaded data so they could recreate the resource – which only went live in December 2024, by the way.
Opinion – The console wars being over is great news - Thred Website

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

There are that the buffet of both consoles is about to expand dramatically, with exclusive games from both consoles headed to their newly reconciled rival. As an Xbox head, I’ve already seen Sony’s Death Stranding on Game Pass, and the majority of titles announced at Sony State of Play are also heading to Xbox and PC.
Study reveals explicit deepfakes are rife among US teens

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

The act of superimposing someone’s likeness onto an AI creation or real life content, by default, is a violation of the subject’s consent, autonomy, and privacy. The vast majority of all intimate deepfakes, therefore, are recognised as illicit – the volume of which is doubling every six months. When it comes to the safety of adolescents, or even children, the stakes are higher for obvious reasons – or so you’d like to think.
UK’s first climate justice degree launched in Sussex

1 month ago | thred.com | Jamie Watts

Sussex University has announced it will be bringing the first climate justice BA to the UK. Could this take the study of climate change nationwide? Breaking news: young people care a fair bit about the climate. That revelation, which is perhaps the least surprising you’ll hear this month, has finally culminated in the UK prepping its first climate justice course for undergraduates.