Strange Loop

Strange Loop

Hollywood Got Eaten by the Internet, Then Rewritten by AI, and Now Everyone’s a Studio

The feed ate the format. AI ate the production pipeline. Gen Z ghosted the red carpet. This isn’t just a vibe shift—it’s a full collapse of the cultural infrastructure we used to call “Hollywood.”

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Adam Cunningham
Mar 28, 2025
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Greetings from LA.

There’s something about being back here—land of the green juice cleanse and the five-day ayahuasca integration period—that makes you reflective.

Maybe it’s the palm trees.

Maybe it’s the traffic-induced microdose of ego death.

Or maybe it’s just that LA, more than anywhere else on Earth, knows how to perform the illusion of cultural pe…

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