>>33371305>vote with your wallet This is the most retarded fucking sentiment. There's no individualistic, consumer solution that counters broad economic trends. You can't vote with your wallet against massive well-established franchises or concentrated economic power more generally, and you can't vote with your wallet against media industries that are fundamentally based on brand recognition and repackaging or remaking existing games/movies/stories/etc.
People like easy, familiar shit, and as long as media is a mass consumer item, well-established producers are going to go out of their way to feed the mass of the population the easy, familiar shit they want. Media industries are inundated with so much capital that games, movies, TV series, music, etc. literally can't afford to flop. Mass media is far and away a form of financial speculation before it's any sort of art form, and you can't vote this away by through consumer choices.
