The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world.::undefined

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    At the same time look at novels, when one comes out it doesn’t get released one 10 pages chapter at a time…

    • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      11 months ago

      Sometimes they do. Dickens and Tolstoy wrote and published serially. So do an awful lot of fanfic writers in the present day.

      • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        And then there was the weekly Dracula thing popular on Tumblr a few years ago where they take a non serialized novel (as far as I know) and split it up based on the dates of the correspondence within, going a level further than serialization and delivering the story “real time” as the letters and newspapers were sent/published in the story.

    • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      Serial writing used to be a big thing, and even today there’s a reason for the popularity of fanfics and webnovels. Hell, remember Homestuck?

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      True. But then reading is probably a more self-limiting format than film/tv. At least for most people.