Beyond economics, there is the matter of narrative authority. In the digital stew, works are separated from authorial intent. Edits, fan-dubs, fragmented transcripts, and remixes proliferate. Alice—now a viral meme, a cinematic reference, a caption under a clip—becomes less a character and more a cultural token. This tokenization can democratize storytelling, enabling new voices to remix and reframe old texts in ways that critique, parody, and reanimate them. But it also risks erasing provenance: without attribution and context, meaning can be hollowed out.