There's another side of the long tail (power law) coin: the head becomes much more popular. Both extremes become more extreme, at the expense of the shoulders.

There's another side of the long tail (power law) coin: the head becomes much more popular. Both extremes become more extreme, at the expense of the shoulders. This seems like what we see: places like YouTube allows small producers to be viable with small audiences -- on the other side, things like Netflix pushes generic content that you can pretty much assume everyone with Netflix has seen.