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With studios launching their own streaming platforms (Disney+, Max, Peacock, Paramount+), popular media has fractured into silos. To go "deeper" into a single franchise (say, the MCU or Star Wars), a fan must now consume not just films and TV shows, but also YouTube breakdowns, podcast after-shows, and even TikTok lore summaries. represents the second wave of this fragmentation: the rise of "micro-canon" events.

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