We seem to be moving past the Stolja in pop cult like I don't think that's true. The era of nostalgia is just continuously evolving as a way to create quote unquote new things. And there are people figuring out how to do it well, but we may well be movingpast the ready player one era where a pile of trivia is enough to get your thing off the ground.
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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