[booleandilemma]

This is the equivalent to "why does modern music suck" (said by every generation of the next generation's music)

At first I agreed with you but then I clicked the submission article and saw those ugly mouse statue things.

[pizzalife]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws

Lots of people seem to enjoy those "ugly mouse statue things".

[tablespoon]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws

> Lots of people seem to enjoy those "ugly mouse statue things".

Sorry, they're still crap. Seriously, taking the MTV VMA statue and robotically slapping his characters head on it? I recently watched the Nathan For You episode "Dumb Starbucks" and those statutes remind me the lazy, deliberately terrible parodies he displayed at an art gallery to establish his bona fides as a "parody artist."

I can't find the YouTube clip of it, but here are some screenshots:

https://www.vulture.com/2015/11/test-your-logos-with-nathan-...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3844774/mediaviewer/rm341341388...

And here's him singing some equally-terrible parody songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71IJOym2ic.

[pizzalife]

What I'm trying to say is that anyone is free to say they're crap, but that is not an objective opinion. "Perception is subjective" - Sol LeWitt

[tablespoon]

> What I'm trying to say is that anyone is free to say they're crap, but that is not an objective opinion.

Heh. As a total aside, "objective opinion" is the kind of oxymoron that fits HN "rationalism" oh so well.

[pizzalife]

Yeah, they don't exist. But the article is written in the style of someone who thinks their opinion about aesthetics is objective.

[booleandilemma]

Lots of people enjoy those ugly monkey NFTs too, I don't know what to tell you <shrug>

[pizzalife]

Yes, this thread is morphing into "what is art"? I don't know.