I’m writing about entertainment’s golden ages because with AI now and the heavy A/B test-based decisions (not the brightest by the way) of the past ten years, I feel like there’s a sense of everything being derived from something done before, at a high rate. It didn’t used to be like that.
My best example of this is floating worlds. Jesus Christ. It’s the de-facto template these days for “edgy” worlds but although it’s an old trope, it used to be rare! Now it’s like everything uses that setting. Which used to be awesome (the end of Laputa, ugh) but isn’t anymore.
What I mean is that over-optimization of entertainment leads to an increase of sameness. Which seems to be very addictive? What kind of impact does it have on people growing up on this? Their ability to discern, perceive differences and commons?