Oddbean new post about login | logout tbf japan has 120 million people that's much larger than any US state. anyway I remember back in the 90s and 00s british stuff seemed popular, teenage girls loved britpop dr who harry potter and british accents. that seems to have gone completely. now your choices are japanese media or braindead pozzed american slop.
california brain-seeded everyone on earth, so I guess there’s precedent. It’s not so much the size, just the oddity that this tiny place, stuffed in the corner, with a freakish, alien culture has utterly monopolized the market space inside kids heads. To the point there’s no alternative. It would be like finding out the Trabant is the world’s best selling car in 2050, you’d be astounded at how inept GM, Ford, honda, toyota, et al would be in order to screw up so badly