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Ekuljf's avatar

The corporate world has noticed that fanbases, more so than individuals, can be weaponised for mega sales. It's like Taylor Swift, billions of devoted fans and streams for the most mundane, repetitive, intellectually boring music, which is all driven by a rabid fan base that marketeers have truly dialed into. This trend is made worse by the fact the in the 2020s we're in a worldwide artistic lull in the entertainment world. There really isn't much choice against quality.

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Francis Turner's avatar

I think one reason why even a movie that is "repetitive, unimaginative, and overlong, less a story than a string of battles punctuated by flashbacks" is doing well is that it has limited quality competition. If other anime or movies were released that were better then fewer people would want to watch it. But AFAICT Hollywood and most other sources of video entertainment are producing dreck that hardly anyone cares about.

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