Huh, that's a good point. There is a LOT of stuff out there that's locked behind various paywalls, and even if you HAVE access, it makes the fandom aspect a lot more disparate, maybe, because not everyone has the roughly equivalent access to everything.
And I've never really been interested in the MEGA fandoms like MCU... so the fact that so many of the it-thing shows or movies are all... just part of the MCU (or the Star Wars universe), it feels like there's just less out there otherwise.

My brain is just fixated on the fandoms that mattered to me a decade (or two) ago, and I can't quite get it to hyperfixate on something NEW to the same degree. (And while I DO get fixations on some newer things: books, podcasts, etc., those all fall more into the "but I'm satisfied with the canon, so feel no need to produce fanwork" category.)

Here's to us hopefully finding something worthwhile to pour creative energy into!