I am not sure how much you really see what the OP is asking...

The OP is asking, what will happen when a generation of human are indulged in useless idols.

Then you continue to describe an industry out of useless idols and their fans...

Hack, I am not surprised by this type of apparently startlingly myopic vision of human society. It seems everything is just for profit. No matter how stupid the thing is, if there is a chance for profit, then go for it.

In the end, who can answer the simple question: Who create the value to drive the profit?

The value is the entertainment escape (dopamine rush) that meme or idol generates in your synapses. Typically a YouTube idol has to have done something interesting e.g. Music etc.. so it's a creative space. Cat chez burgers was a big meme factory at one point doing millions.

Buy an ad and your customer might remember it. Create a meme and you live forever.

Entertainment isn't really an industry though. It produces nothing of real value and relies on being financed by those who do.

There is a reason Bollywood is a more profitable "industry" than Hollywood, and it's not because their product is better. It's because their society actually nets a profit from production that they can then spend on leisure.

If our best and brightest young children become internet celebrities because it made good sense, then there won't be anyone to keep the gears grinding.

Worse than that, on instagram you're still the product being sold even when you're then one being followed.

> If our best and brightest young children become internet celebrities because it made good sense, then there won't be anyone to keep the gears grinding.

So do you also support not educating a vast majority of children because if everyone aspires to be a white collar worker, where will we get our janitors and garbage men from.

One could say the same of lobbying, but there's still a funnel from lobbying straight into government/private sector (and vice versa, depending on who you ask).

Whether you like it or not, entertainers produce goods or entertainment-related services within an economy. That's the definition of an industry.

I'm not clear on the difference you're asserting between Hollywood and Bollywood.

I was racking my brain trying to figure this out as well. someone pray tell

99% of the web produces nothing of any value either.