Abundant content obscures the industrial concentration that actually produces it

Evidence

Sameness is a crucial effect of these derivative processes; the availability of enormous quantities of content obscures the basic uniformity of its creation and the concentration of the industrial center in the four major networks and the Hollywood studio holdovers, through which most content is still made and/or most of its creators are still developed. Streaming formally homogenizes. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 210

Categorization

• XREF: The abundance-conceals-concentration dynamic echoes Jameson’s account of consumer culture’s ideological operation and the reader’s thesis on cultural impatience as economic effect. — connects to: Mass production really means producing the masses, not producing massively — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 227
• SHARE: For anyone studying media consolidation: streaming’s boutique-image masks continued dominance by four networks plus legacy studios — a sharp, citable claim.