best trend is the growing realization that the corporate media is failing does not tell the truth. It has an agenda. More and more people are opting out of it and going with independent media... I think more and more people are waking up from the matrix and realizing that we're living in this media controlled simulation.View on YouTube
Evidence since late 2022 shows both pillars of Sacks’ prediction playing out:
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Trust in legacy/corporate news has kept falling to record lows. Gallup trend data summarized in multiple outlets shows U.S. trust in “mass media such as newspapers, TV and radio” dropping from the mid‑30% range in 2022 to 31% in 2024 and then 28% in 2025 saying they have a great deal or fair amount of trust—its lowest level in over 50 years. Roughly 70% now say they have not very much or no trust in these outlets. (breitbart.com) This directly matches his claim that more people see corporate media as failing and agenda‑driven.
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A growing share of people are “opting out” toward independent or non‑traditional media.
- A 2024 Pew report finds about 1 in 5 U.S. adults (21%)—and 37% of adults 18–29—regularly get news from news influencers on social media, and 77% of those influencers have no affiliation with a news organization, i.e., they are independent creators. (pewresearch.org)
- A 2025 Reuters Institute analysis and related coverage report that social and video networks have overtaken TV as Americans’ primary news source, with people increasingly turning to online personalities and podcasters like Joe Rogan instead of traditional news brands. (reuters.com)
- The “independent journalism era” is documented as rapidly expanding: platforms like Substack grew from ~1 million paid subscriptions in 2021 to over 3 million by early 2024 and around 5 million paid subscriptions by early 2025, with politics and news as leading categories and many high‑profile journalists leaving legacy outlets to build independent businesses there. (axios.com)
- Podcast and creator‑driven content consumption is at all‑time highs, with a majority of Americans now monthly podcast consumers, and podcasts—often independent—serving as a major news/opinion channel. (edisonresearch.com)
Across roughly three years since the prediction, the directional trend is clear: trust in corporate/mass media keeps deteriorating, while independent/creator‑led and influencer‑driven outlets capture a growing share of news consumption, especially among younger audiences. That aligns closely with Sacks’ forecast that more people would recognize corporate media as biased and would shift toward independent media “over the coming years.”