I lost interest in The Boys a couple of episodes into season 4. It just went nowhere and had done so for too long, so it just got stale to me. I have absolutely no interest in any spin-offs, which only makes the show become what it satirised.
I hate the persistent idea in US entertainment than everything has to be a franchise.
I don’t think it has plateaued, the reasons they give for why it should have done so makes no sense. The main problem being their metholodigy of spotting AI created content which is highly dubious. The more straightforward explanation is that AI created content has become more difficult to spot, especially for the tool that the researchers used.
GDP is an incredible useless way to measure average wealth.
But more importantly taxing people so a proper universal social security net exists. Donations and charities are symptom treatment (and very inefficient treatment at that), while proper social security is treatment on a structural level.