Watched a video recently that was talking about how media has become quite dominated by referential tropes at the expense of actual narrative construction. Basically the plot has become just a structure that supports the arrangement of references to well worn moments in other media. Examples would be stuff like Family Guy and later Simpsons, but it crops up in all sorts of stuff now. Instead of media literacy being about understanding the structure and dynamics of a story, the new discourse often focuses on tracing references across different media products. It's much like "remember-berries" but across the whole of media culture, and it often can decontextualize effective storytelling into a collection of tropes via surface level discourse.