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⌈ Secret Post #5842 ⌋

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Re: What are you currently watching (or reading or playing)?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Hey! I'm glad that I'm not the only one who feels like what's going on is a commodification of art.
It's like we're back to painting realistic art in church walls to prove just how powerful they are.
Yes, definitely! We're told to look at "real art" and it's legitimized through the wealthy hiring artists to create what they want. And is that really art if they are doing it based on someone else's vision and without personal purpose? We are simply to be impressed at how pretty/good looking the art is?

I agree too about how it's affected fandom. It's all about creating something that can be/is a brand, easily identified by consumers. In The Canvas video, it's touched upon in the same ways of how they discussed the movie industry in the US vs in Soviet Russia. In a capitalistic society, creatives are hired by a company and there are all sorts of guidelines and rules the creative has go through to create their art. Will it be appealing to certain demographics? Will some of the designs and characters be marketable? So many questions and issues to resolve that winds down to appealing to as many people as possible to make as much money as possible.
Because we live in a late-capitalistic world, many will think of creating our fanworks in the same vein. And not only that but many fans don't participate in creating fanworks but they will consume fanworks and not take into consideration that another fan created said work purely from a place where they wanted to create. They only see it as another commodity to consume. And so it encourages companies to take creative freedoms from fans and monetize it. Once you monetize things, creative freedom can easily be lost or forgotten.

And I agree that a lot of fanworks now are created and consumed in the vein of instant gratification, a quick cheap thrill that has no value beyond what you came for. I think that's something we have to call each other out on and I don't think being someone who does the calling out will make many friends from it. Honestly, I feel a complete disconnect from the friends I have IRL because they're all eagerly consuming so many tv shows, movies, and game and I am so worn down by it all, I want to process the one thing I'm into currently but everyone has been done with it ages ago so there's no real point in me talking to them about beyond "I finally got into Thing A. I liked it."

It's a lot of things going on, not just giant corporations cranking out generic art after generic art and now with more efficiency because of AI but our lack of addressing this as an issue that needs deeper discussions is really concerning me about where society is heading.

Re: What are you currently watching (or reading or playing)?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Yes, that's exactly how I feel about it too. Couldn't have put it better myself: "it's all about creating a brand that's easily identified by consumers" and cheap thrills that are impersonal, objectively marketable and often emotionless.

And the way you put it made me really think about it: many people in fandom nowadays aren't artists and only see fanworks as "yet another commodity to consume". And that seems to sum up why much of fandom lost its shine to me along the years - for me the enjoyment lies in being touched by a story on an emotional level that makes me want to dive deeper into its universe and on that level I am able to bond with other fans, so we can think about possibilities inside that universe, and even learn more about ourselves as we analyze why it affects us, etc. Because art creates new values, sensibilities and perspectives no fandom should feel like the other and I like to have the experience in full, not just "one more media I enjoyed". If you're just consuming a lot of things at face value to satisfy some basic need like boredom or horniness or subversion and fandom is little more than that to you, that's nice, entertainment is fine of course but it's not how I fandom and it's not how I look at media because I expect media to have artistic qualities even in this day and age.

So yeah I am also boring with the way I consume media but that's always been me - once I had a friend tell me I couldn't get into a show that was like 4 years old at the time because "it's not relevant anymore" . If it's not relevant anymore maybe it never was? Yet another thing I am known for liking is... media that is technically flawed but has a lot of heart. Soo... agreed, it's sad that we are being co-opted even in this one space that seemed to be... you know, full of left-leaning people and artists lol.