I love how @Casey Neistat accidentally explained why we're all watching alone together in the clip below. His funnel theory is right but he's missing the fact that we don't just have infinite content we have infinite GOOD content and that's actually worse because now there's no shared reference point for what "good" even means. Tom Hanks wasn't special he was just everywhere. Back then we thought scarcity = quality and that confusion created culture. I remember Casey revolutionizing vlogging by accident back in 2015. Then ten thousand kids copied him but they weren't watching each other they were all creating their own Casey universe in isolation thinking they were part of making crash zooms cool. No, Casey did that. The algorithm solved for engagement but destroyed coherence. We're all watching exactly what we want which means we're watching alone. Even when millions watch the same thing those millions don't know each other exist. I doubt future gens will ever experience _everyone_ in school talking about the same movie because there is no "same movie" anymore. They'll have better content/infinite content perfect-for-them content but they'll have it alone. The bottom of Casey's funnel used to be those "shared culturl moments" where society happened. Now there is no bottom just infinite falling through infinite content forever.