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by thot_experiment 1534 days ago
This is such a wild take to me, I feel like there's more cool art all over the internet than ever before. Maybe not as a percentage of the total but by absolute volume I feel like I'm constantly discovering cool/impressive artists of all sorts. I mean listen to Denzel Curry's last N albums for any value of N, they're all great and they're all different from one another.

Individual artists have more power than ever before to create art, maybe that doesn't work great to earn a living but we're still out there doing it making great shit. You just have to look for art in places that aren't spotify, dribble and instagram. Those are vehicles to make money, rarely does an artist staying true to their wild individualistic vision make money, change the industry etc. (though there are still obvious examples, Kanye comes to mind) but for every artist doing great work in the public eye there are a thousand you've never heard of because you don't put the time in to find them.

P.S. Limit copyright to like 10 years.