Theodore Sturgeon, a Sci-Fi author, came up this now immortal phrase that defines the quality of work people show and what is there to be excited about.

"Nothing is always absolutely so"

"I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud."

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This is what immortalized him for. Sturgeon's Law doesnt apply exclusively to science fiction works anymore. It applies to everything. It is the barrier that keeps aspiring writers or other people with their works from their works being published by major publishers. But nowadays, it applies to everything. For example, If you are making a movie, it better stand out from the rest, and I MEAN, that the movie better not conform to the standard norms of your typical movie, or any form of conventions for that matter, since Sturgeon's Law covers an entire genre. The 10 percent of everything refers to things that are actually worthy of being remembered and to experience, but it depends on person to person. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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What makes you think this "applying to everything" is a recent trend?

Never said it was recent. I was implying that with an explaination of an answer that holds truth, it would expand beyond what was originially for sometimes. (Ex: Darwin's survival of the fittest explaination he got from an economist which would become a major componant to his theory of evolution) In this case, Strugeon's Law originally applied to science fiction works as a whole. Collorallies were added on later as new information was present and the realizations backed up by evidence would be apparent that it is no longer restricted to that one field, which was science-fiction. This was a gradual progress.

tl;dr = people like different things