| > The idea that buying art is anything BUT supporting an artist is pretty funny. Traditionally people bought art to possess it, look at it, and display it for others. > Buying art was always meant to just let the artist do his thing! No, that's kinda what patronage was all about. We have crowd sourced versions of that. > Selling digital art before NFTs was a complete pain! Before them you had to go with an agency or gallery, they took a cut, they had to like your stuff. That wasn't necessary though, you could sell art all sorts of ways. You could even just set up your own online store if you wanted. All NFTs seem to have done is take advantage of the hype-chasing and speculation crowds. > there is an honest revolution in digital art happening right now You've lost me here. Literally nothing about what you're describing requires NFTs other than convincing people to pay money for the NFTs by tangentially tying them to art. It is enabling artists to hack human psychology for money, not enabling brand new kinds of art. |