Hollywood, Microdramas, and the Business of Capturing Attention

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Welcome back to another edition of HackerNoon’s 3 Tech Polls Newsletter, a weekly retrospective on timely debates shaping the global tech ecosystem. Results from our Poll of the Week anchor the newsletter, supported by related conversations from around the web to offer additional context and perspective.

This week, we’re looking at Hollywood, microdramas, AI-generated shows, and the attention economy eating entertainment from the inside out.

Since its inception, long before the social media era and its accompanying digital dystopia, Hollywood has played the attention game. There’s much to be said about the piety of the industry and its platforming of important, culture-shifting ideas and arguments. Still, there’s even more to be said about how its interaction with the gods of capitalism has transformed the business into a slop farm, one that would rather remake sure bets over and over for the sake of the bottom line than...

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