Valid take—your sense is that its adjacency to notoriety leads to people imbuing it with quality that they wouldn't if they were actually responding to quality and if it were J Random in the byline instead.
It's the same thing that drives the rich-get-richer phenomenon.
I remember thinking something similar when Facebook announced the Meta rebranding and people were atwitter about Zuckerberg's metaverse well past the point where it was clear that it was a dud—something that wouldn't have happened if there weren't a big name attached to it and people were responding purely to the merits.
It's the same thing that drives the rich-get-richer phenomenon.
I remember thinking something similar when Facebook announced the Meta rebranding and people were atwitter about Zuckerberg's metaverse well past the point where it was clear that it was a dud—something that wouldn't have happened if there weren't a big name attached to it and people were responding purely to the merits.