Because the fairy tale stuff is what is popular with people, and in our capitalist world, if you want to make enough money to pay rent, your writing has to be popular enough to pay you enough. So people have to make allusions to really well known popular stuff, you can’t get an homage to classic cinema or obscure novels, it has to be something that lets the audience do that Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme.
Because the fairy tale stuff is what is popular with people, and in our capitalist world, if you want to make enough money to pay rent, your writing has to be popular enough to pay you enough. So people have to make allusions to really well known popular stuff, you can’t get an homage to classic cinema or obscure novels, it has to be something that lets the audience do that Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme.