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The Meta As Story - From Dead Media to Parasocial Myths

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Sam Gray
Sep 06, 2025
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I was recently inspired by Brian Niemeier’s commentary on the death of twentieth-century mass media. Convincingly, he argues that comics, television, and cinema were products of a particular cultural and technological moment, and that the attempt to revive them through nostalgia inflation has failed. The superhero industrial complex is out of gas, Holly…

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I was once Zerathuun, Krythonic Commander and Second-in-Command to Lord Therenox. Now, I am Skyrend. And Earth is my domain.
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