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A place to talk about movies, TV and videos on Farcaster.

The modern entertainment economy doesn’t reward personal satisfaction—it rewards scalable consensus. So if you truly enjoy something, but it can’t scale—you may have to evangelize it, or else it dies. That’s a pretty weird and unsettling inversion. I’m gonna call it zero-sum economics of cultural distribution: the idea that for certain mega-projects (like the MCU or AAA games) to be profitable, they must dominate to the exclusion of everything else.

Scalable consensus is becoming less scalable and less consensual. People are actively seeking substance and rewarding it when they find it. Just at the moment tye industry was about to double down with AI slop, audiences got just about enough IQ points wiser to just to upset the balance