[raincole]

> ultimately to me, Art that is worth spending my time consuming usually correlates with Art that has many many hours of dedicated labor poured into it

It might be true for you. But I highly doubt average people have any idea about how many or few hours were poured into the content they consume.

I've seen weebs who insists anime never utilizes rotoscope because "Japanese don't take shortcuts." My aunt questioned how anyone can make money from photo editing when a cousin of mine got married and had their wedding photos edited by a professional, because she thought it's just a few click on computer. People just don't know and they can be far off the marks in both ways.

[whatevertrevor]

Sure, but I did choose my words precisely for that reason. That's why I said it usually correlates with hours. Hours of labor put in is not the metric that makes art worth it to me, it's more a question of a skilled artist ensuring their message comes through, in the highest "resolution" possible, which requires a high amount of attention to detail, and usually requires a good amount of labor for the output to be interesting.