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Hasn't this been going on since the dawn of time?

• anigbrowl 4y ago
  No. This is an unusually abrupt change, because for previous technological changes there wasn't as much infrastructure in place that would allow the market to switch so rapidly. It's just like how we had celebrities and overnight successes in the past, but the phenomenon of 'going viral' wasn't talked about because exponential growth in popularity/notoriety was actually rare.