Now? The secondary market has eaten the primary.

Over the last decade, the line between "entertainment content" and "popular media" has completely dissolved. Traditionally, popular media (TV, radio, cinema, newspapers) was the gatekeeper. Entertainment content (videos, memes, streams) was the secondary market.

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The Algorithm and the Audience: How Entertainment Content is Reshaping Popular Media

We are living in the golden age of —and the burnout age of choice .