Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
Fandom has always been intenseâbut recent events involving stars from âThe Pitt,â âHeated Rivalry,â âPercy Jackson,â and more suggest that diehards have gone to a new, scarier level.
No one knew it at the time, but 2014 â more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment â marked the peak of a monoculture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.