That member sounds silly. Anyone can form an idea. That doesn't make someone an artist. Them saying they are doing the work by typing in prompts and having an idea just shows how AI art is devolving an already choked medium.
I like handmade stuff and wish I could love Etsy, but the entire place is just dropshippers. But they don't do anything because it makes them money. When they were only allowing handmade only of the purest quality Etsy was on its way to bankruptcy. People are also so spoiled by next day delivery methods made normal by Amazon that customers think handmade should be delivered the week they made the order.
If one is going to make a profit on something, say like handmade, it needs to be brought to a larger audiences attention. And that means advertising it to those that aren't passionate or understand it. So they'll want to pay what they think it's worth. Which is funny that they often want to pay independent services peanuts but don't bat an eye every time some corporation inflates stuff way over its original price.
Well I’m kinda fixated on art lately… huh. But honestly, I agree with you 100% and I checked back and saw another pretty silly message from them. They were talking about female designs earlier and I said a lot of designers were just lazy with them until recently (which I believe) and he was like “lmao male designs can be more diverse because of bodytypes, its not sexism”. Like bruh. First of all, nobody else was talking about sexism, just character designs. Not all girls have a thin waist. Or a chest in general. Or prominent curves. And making that base female character design… then sticking solely to base female character design is LAZY and generic because its literally just sticking to basic traits.
I think that a lot of female characters are only getting better designs in the last few years as people who give a crap about visual design are getting a little more creative power over it and people are becoming more socially aware so seeing a buff woman for example doesn’t face as much ire these days. Some people still hate it but I feel like even when I was a kid it would have been more ridiculed.
And to go back to your message though, I forgot about the rise of Etsy Redbubble etc. but true. That was already further devaluing this stuff. I was never really on that side of things so it slipped my mind and tbh generally I don’t care about “reposting art” and a lot of art community drama (not saying its invalid) but when it genuinely gets stolen reprinted etc
And people barely speak about that. It’s unbelievable people are just ok with artists having their WORK stolen and it always goes back to this built-in conception that art is a talent instead of work/skill. Schools failed us on art. It hurts people who could get into art and it especially hurts artists, artists are generally disadvantaged by that from the start imo
And I think the corportation thing comes down to clout. Not like petty friend circle clout but rich people clout. The companies can get away with more because they have clout under them. If someone calls it out it the companies can just snuff them out and the companies think just play dirty etc. and that hurts everyone below them but its often good for them. Im sure you know.
to end off on I swear I’m this close to leaving that server which stinks, that guy has no idea what he’s talking about with art which gets annoying and rethinking it all it has going for it are the cool mods, and some cool users will rarely post in to post memes. I don’t really want to be friends or chat with most of them. I’m frustrated not knowing if this is me being avoidant, or if I should genuinely just leave because either way it isn’t worth my time for a silly bandicoot server
