Scriveners' Trappings

Story Horizon:  "For web series, we can often see the effect of the studio audience in the analytics/statistics on the video itself. Oftentimes, viewers will give a video more of a chance when seeing the high view count or thumbs up, modelling the behaviour of the audience that preceded them and not unlike responding to the canned laughter of the now dead “audience” as Orson so morbidly pointed out in the clip" ....

"Audiences, in the real sense of the word, are disappearing" (Orson Welles, 1979)