The most exciting development is not merely that there are more roles, but that the nature of those roles has exploded into a thrilling diversity of genres and archetypes.
: Many comics and cartoons, including adult-themed ones, have official websites or are published through specific platforms (e.g., webtoon sites, comic book databases, or social media).
Actresses like Meryl Streep—one of the few to survive the transition—spoke openly about the "contraction" of interesting roles after 35. The industry was obsessed with the female body as a decorative object, and in a youth-obsessed culture, a body that had borne children or simply lived through the decades was deemed unsellable. Characters were written to be looked at , not listened to .