Streaming dominates web traffic and normalized original content within three years

Evidence

Streaming is instant access over networks to video that does not require downloads or storage space, and it accounts for well over 50 percent—sometimes as much as 80 percent—of all web traffic at any given time. In just three years, from 2019 to 2022, made-for-streaming films went from disparaged ineligibles to Oscar Best Picture winners, while the video-sharing platform TikTok became the most widely used app in the world. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 205

Categorization

• XREF: The made-for-streaming films to Oscar-winners timeline is concrete evidence for the reader’s claim about immediacy as a style — quick normalization of disintermediated form.