>>279831274 (OP)
It used to be that people actually asked question for real answers here, you know? It's been a long time, I don't often care, but sometimes you can really seem how meaningless the threads are.
Here is a real but simplified answer on the cycle of popularity and creativity:
>Thing is made
>Thing is new (or new within its medium), has few people into it, but those people find in thing interesting new interpretations of older things, or clever messages, or perhaps emotional depth
>Thing gets more popular, as people learn about thing and other people try to make their own; thing 2 comes out, fairly good still maybe, then thing 3, thing 4, thing 5, thing n (in which n is any natural number greater than 5).
> Thing is now an adjective and a verb, more people care, more money to be make, more re-imaginations of thing. Some are so vile, such simplistic distillation of what was perceived as popular without even the slightest heart, that being called "Thing" is pretty much an insult
>Thing Omega comes out; it has some good parts, extremely popular.
>Thing Omega is not bad, but honestly it's just Thing 1 with a new coat of paint and adapted to the current year.
>Older readers of Thing 1 feel alienated and almost insulted by Thing Omega being called the best.
>Thing Beta comes out; it is obviously inspired by older things, but it's new in its approach.
>Thing Beta has few people into it, but those people find in thing beta interesting new interpretations of older things, or clever messages, or perhaps emotional depth
>Thing Beta gets more popular, as people learn about thing beta and other people try to make their own; thing beta 2 comes out, fairly good still maybe, then thing beta 3, thing beta 4, thing beta 5, thing beta n (in which n is any natural number greater than 5).
>etc.
There you have it. It gets hairy when you get into it mid flight, and it gets dicer to determine where it actually starts.
