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In the span of a single morning, the average person might swipe through a dozen TikTok skits, listen to a true crime podcast on the way to work, scroll past a meme about a blockbuster movie, and check Twitter for reactions to last night’s season finale. This daily ritual is so ingrained that we rarely stop to consider the colossal machinery behind it. The production and consumption of popular media have