I stole this fair and square. Hope this hasn't been posted yet.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I hate the "Random industry is cooked" trope. Right now if you go on LinkedIn you'll find a ton of bros proclaiming the death of Hollywood because Seedance can now generate 3 minutes of incoherent eye-candy with vaguely realistic looking special effects.
It's like brainrot for boomers, you can see they are getting absolutely hypnotized by the loud noises and bright colors, and totally missing that the main character who was running to the right with blue pants is now walking to the left with red shorts.
Really, it reminds me of nothing so much as NFTs. Cryptocurrency in general, sure, but especially NFTs. Banks are cooked! Traditional mortgages are cooked! The stock market is cooked! Fiat currency is cooked! We're going to tokenize everything and transform the world! Give us all your money so you can get in on the ground floor before it's too late!
It was empty hype, and it was obviously empty hype, and it went the same place all empty hype goes.
But it let some very rich people launder a lot of money and get even richer, and isn't that the end goal of the whole economy anyway?
AI bros made Cocomelon for AI bros. Insane.
What a time to be alive, right?