To be clear, if you are a person with 4 million dollars to spend on a comic project and you invest that money in a system that takes work away from artists and disincentivizes people from pursuing art professionally rather than in artists to make your comic, YOU are the one gatekeeping art. - ThreadSky

coelasquid.bsky.social • 213 days ago

To be clear, if you are a person with 4 million dollars to spend on a comic project and you invest that money in a system that takes work away from artists and disincentivizes people from pursuing art professionally rather than in artists to make your comic, YOU are the one gatekeeping art.

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sirala6.bsky.social•213 days ago

Pop culture off the assembly line.

joeaconite.com•212 days ago

He's the owner looking down on people wanting to be be paid and do a job they trained hard for. Artists and writers that he's willing to ruin for a quick buck and then claim it's a moral stance. Saying they are the evil ones for defying his greed.

Familiar.

anymouse68.bsky.social•212 days ago

Yup. Truth.

He should have invested in, oh, I don't know... art education in low-income schools?

So disappointed in him.

shaenon.bsky.social•213 days ago

The Cartoon Art Museum could run indefinitely on a single $3 million endowment, just saying

enberlight.bsky.social•213 days ago

Seriously. How many community arts centers could he have sponsored with that?

How many public school art programs could he have provided supplies for?

How many How to Draw books could he have bought for Dolly Parton to send out?

Student loans? Tutor fees? Comic kickstarters?

Like, DAMN dude.

gwillow.me•213 days ago

Well said

flintironstag.bsky.social•213 days ago

I don't even understand why you would want it. At any level. It's echolalia for pictures but it's not even helping someone stim. How can you have that shallow of a relationship with someone's work?

thatoldbear.bsky.social•213 days ago

I mean if Shaq can't even bat an eyelist at trying to fuck artists over with his star-power, why would any other athlete learn a fucking lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CULtU7nipzY

coelasquid.bsky.social•213 days ago

I actually worked on an animated series for Shaq like 12 years ago. I think he had a falling out with the co-creator or something and never ended up making it live so no one ever saw it, but he did pay us, at least.

thatoldbear.bsky.social•213 days ago

Hooray for getting paid! :D

coelasquid.bsky.social•213 days ago

I have admittedly not watched the saberspark video because I find him intensely irritating to listen to.

thatoldbear.bsky.social•213 days ago

Ah crap sorry about that - I couldnt remember where I'd heard of the story and that video was among the first search results I got.

adrientaffy.bsky.social•212 days ago

Anyone who thinks Hazbin Hotel is the peak of adult animation and loses his mind over a little sex in a cartoon gets grating to listen to after a while

dashwallkick.bsky.social•213 days ago

Athletes should understand that skill is worked for not bought but here he is selling it anyway

ingforart.bsky.social•213 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ingforart.bsky.social/post/3kyr6fv4prr25

coelasquid.bsky.social•213 days ago

I figure even if you just look at the number of people who work in one artistic discipline and are fine who AI elbowing out people who practice another (ie; writers who generate cover art), it’s not surprising that an athlete would undervalue artists

coelasquid.bsky.social•213 days ago

Honestly I think part of the issue here is exactly that, if you are a person who worked very hard to perform at a high level in your given field, it’s very difficult to start a new discipline at square 1. When you’re used to being Very Good and In Control in your field, the disparity feels larger-

mayaenaise.bsky.social•213 days ago

📌

coelasquid.bsky.social•213 days ago

So top performers in particular fields can be more likely to feel like they deserve short cuts or like things should be easier for them somehow, because they’ve internalized that identity like “I am very good at what I do” rather than just “I am very good at my specialty field”

abadchoiceofwords.bsky.social•213 days ago

Weird. Honing my craft has gifted me more and more respect for the time, effort, and artistry others put to theirs. Yes, learning something new is hard. No, I don't want to wrap my crap in a veneer of quality I know I lack the substance to claim.

But, I'm not him. Maybe he's built different.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•213 days ago

Yeah which is functionally identical to those business dudes who think AI art is the same thing - it flatters their self image to think "they" drew what the robot spit out bc they're not able to be bad at things, that's what children do

antoinelavoisier.bsky.social•213 days ago

It’s like Dunning-Kruger but for skills rather than knowledge

thatoldbear.bsky.social•213 days ago

reminds me of one of my first jobs as a graphics/animation guy at a very small agency. One time a realestate client came to watch us as we worked and he asked me how long it'd taken to learn to do that. I counted off the years at uni etc. My boss later told me I'd upset the guy. 1/

dashwallkick.bsky.social•213 days ago

I know I know it's just that kind of frustration where you're doing the same thing but since they think it's different nothing can penetrate that

theotherrickfox.bsky.social•213 days ago

Yeah I agree. Like, I'm just about to start an actual webcomic where I'm hiring artists to do the artwork, and I only have a TINY FRACTION of that budget.

There is absolutely no excuse for it. None.

alexisflower.bsky.social•213 days ago

for 4 million I could put out 2 books a year for the rest of my life without charging anyone anything

divinephoenix.bsky.social•211 days ago

I've noticed lately that a lot of privileged, powerful/wealthy people really like to project themselves onto others - almost as they know their desires are bad, but want others to suffer their burdens.

elizabethsterling.bsky.social•213 days ago

And let's not forget that 'democratisation' was the battle-cry behind crypto and NFT bros specifically made the point of insisting that artists would be empowered by the system. Astonishingly those, too, turned out to be the literal opposite of the truth.

elizabethsterling.bsky.social•213 days ago

'Democritisation' invariably means 'install me as a powerul, wealthy gate keeper and I super-dooper-pinky-swear I'll make it worth your while!'

anarcish.bsky.social•211 days ago

Just like our actual representative democracies!

“Democracy” doesn’t mean the people running their government, it means the people helping make a bunch of lawyers rich to do it for them.

ajluis101.bsky.social•213 days ago

Yet another symbol that was taken, and culturally appropriated into something it was never meant to be…

pppatticake.bsky.social•213 days ago

Every accusation is an admission

nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social•213 days ago

I instantly lost every bit of respect for him when I saw that. You’d think he’d know better.

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