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Lou Pearlman was the man behind the Backstreet Boys and nsync, and was arguably largely responsible for the late 1990's boy-band craze. He's in prison now for running a massive ponzi scheme. I know this may seem to be a relatively minor cultural divergence but what if he had been absent from the pop cultural scene during the 1990's. For whatever reason, he is not able to create any of the boy bands he did in reality. No Backstreet Boys etc. How is American popular culture affected?
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