art history will be like "this is the most revolutionary painting of its time!" and you will look at it and is just a normal painting of a lady sitting under a tree and then an art historian will explain "this is the first time a painting ever used this specific shade of blue which challenged all understood conventions of how to depict light and launched a movement known as auzureism, and also the lady is looking at a sparrow which in its time it was a sign of fierce sexual liberation and it was considered scandalous" and then you find out the painter was expelled from the academy of art of stockholm because of the painting and that the king of sweeden paid three thousand marcs (equivallent to ten million dollars now a days) to have the painting in his room and the painting still looks like a generic painting of a lady under a tree
I have video game brainrot (subcategory: History of Horror Games as a Special Interest), so this makes me thing about video games.
I'll point at something like Amnesia: The Dark Descent by Frictional Games and talk about how its popularity influenced a new wave of horror games and its DNA can still be felt in modern horror games. And to this day it's still a great game, but there have been so many games that copied Amnesia that Amnesia just looks like another horror game walking sim with light puzzle elements.
But no, when this game came out it felt revolutionary after almost 6 years of action-packed Resident Evil 4 Clones choking out traditional Survival Horror.
