A major studio just handed creative control of a tentpole project to a creator’s 31-million-person community. A production label is taking development capital from 2,000 fans instead of a studio. A showrunner just left a major streamer to own his own YouTube channel because ownership matters more than distribution size. Three different structures showing the same rupture: the trade that built Hollywood—capital in exchange for control—is collapsing. The question isn’t whether studios give up creative control. It’s when.
So here are three trends I’ve been noticing, emerging from our Garden Harvest posts and my general diet of media consumption about… well, media.
