Theoretically this could work. It seems that you're talking about de-ranking the fat middle of the curve which serves the banal content consumed by those in th

Theoretically this could work. It seems that you're talking about de-ranking the fat middle of the curve which serves the banal content consumed by those in the fat middle themselves, leaving only the tail end, theoretically serving the corresponding tail end of content consumers, which might approximate the early days of the internet before the normies invaded, before the barrier to entry was lowered such that it approached zero. It could work.