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Participants argue that streaming’s influence has fundamentally changed how movies are produced. Because viewers expect to multi-task—scrolling social media or answering messages—the quality of films has declined. Movies are crafted with the assumption that viewers’ attention will be divided, leading to shallow storytelling and superficial production values.
There is a consensus that Hollywood is increasingly "content-poor," creating films that aim to satisfy the lowest common denominator. The focus on quick hits, franchise spin-offs, and AI-generated scripts threatens to make the industry less about art and more about mass-produced entertainment.