| Probably. Art has long been a refuge for people who have other problems in life. Tech keeps looking for ways to ensnare eyeballs to ads and wallets to subscriptions. If you combine the following three things: - the number of people seeking refuge is increasing due to whatever you want to call the current social factors, - modern digital art tools enable people to create aesthetically pleasant but not necessarily original things nearly instantly, - these tools are modern tech properties owned by profit-seeking firms needing ROI in the modern financial landscape, then you get what we have now. This may seem like a bad thing, but it encourages new tools and when they get in the hands of truly capable artists, it's worth it. Original stuff is out there, you just have to look hard. But you always had to look really hard for the good original stuff. For example: look at comic books pre-Internet. Most of them were very similar. |