The Culture: The Wane Of The Modern Audience

This is (slowly) coming to an end.

With the Trump Administration gutting the funding behind Blackrock's ESG bullshit, this is now in retreat- retreat, not yet surrender.

Surrender is coming so long as the pressure keep ramping up and no backstopping of funding appears; right now that is guaranteed, but a fuckup can change that on a dime. As it is, however, we are looking at this being dead and gone in about the time it took to bloom and flourish- a decade.

The reason? The Death Cult is always subserviant to the Mammon Mob, so when Line Does Not Go Up the Mob gets anxious and when it goes down and keeps falling they get mad- and blame the Death Cult (rightly) for it. As the Mob has the superior position (i.e. control over the money that makes it all possible), the Mob gets its way sooner or later and the Cult gets punted to the ditch.

The problem is people with the inability to get beyond instant gratification. This doesn't turn on a dime- not in film, not in TV, not in Vidya, not in Tabletop, nothing.

In addition to sandbagging by Stay Behinds within an organization, you have the ordinary issue of there being a long lead time for any major corporate media production. Films typically are three years, Vidya is three to five, OldPub is at least a year and often more, and Tabletop is at least as bad. It's going to take time for the cleanup to make itself manifest.

That means you're going to seek plenty of suck for the near term. The signs will begin showing up in no less than a year from now.

This also means that it's going to be uneven; some organizations will turn around faster than others, with the primary determinant being the ratio of Mobster to Cultist within an organization as the Mobster dominance will prompt faster turnarounds.

All said, remember that the Mammon Mob is not your friend; they serve a different demon, but they still serve a demon. All this means is that the Death Cult funnel from the Pop Cult gets cut off in favor of retrenching and doubling-down on the Pop Cult idolatry- they want full-tilt Idol Culture Give All Your Money In Devotion To Something That Can't Love You levels of false religion.