>>50623598This problem isn't fundamentally bounded to this franchise or vidya, it's the entirety of media. Consider soulless businessmen collaborating with autism spectrum millennial "art" directors, writers and so on. As of now, both can collaborate to produce the lowest quality, broadest appealing garbage even seen, thanks to internet culture, that is pop culture at its core. Memes are the first offender of that, being rehashes of themselves with slight variations. Meme worldwide success opened the floodgates of ctrl c ctrl v media, and killed originally for big franchises. That's why 50% of vidya and movies is now the sequel or remake of something else. Memes are as they are since they operate in a decentralised, resource-lacking network of basically anon users, and this can justify their overall unoriginality. "Professional" media is reaching peak soulless because they are centralised, for profit corporate memes, that bugmen don't fail to consume anyway.
