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>music
Music used to be so crucial to community we used to have very extensive irl subcultures around musical genres. That type of social segmentation no longer exists since people no longer go to bars to socialize as they used to.
The very function of music at a societal level has changed.

>movies
People do watch a lot of anime though, and they get very invested in them too. So it's not about the medium but the works themselves.

I do agree that culture and creativity is dying in the West, and very fast at that too, but I don't think the internet is to blame.
Before the regime directly broke up online communities through a combination of ideological zealots, laws, censorship, spamming and everything else they could think of there was a lot of cultural and intellectual production.

Slop is not threatening to the status quo and its followers.