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The original film’s tagline—"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"—is ironically inverted online. What happens on Dailymotion stays on Google search results for years. This paper concludes that queries like this reveal a new media axiom: In a post-cable, post-Blockbuster world, availability is not guaranteed; therefore, obscurity is not obsolescence, but a trigger for vernacular archiving. What Happens In Vegas Dailymotion

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