The inside industry reaction to Dayo's feast was fast and deep, the kind of reaction that didn't wait for public celebration or fan edits or trending hashtags to finish forming.
Fans could scream, argue, cry, and spam comment sections, but most fans didn't understand mechanics. They didn't understand distribution lanes, settlement cycles, backend splits, regional multipliers, theater percentages, how a marketing spend could inflate perception without inflating profit, or how a studio could make a film look like a giant while secretly bleeding behind the curtains.
But they understood one thing.
Math.
They understood what it meant for a movie to earn more than fifty times its production cost.
