[snowwrestler]

We get into it because we [think we] have good taste.

Sometimes "making it" does just take working long and hard enough to get to the point that our output matches our taste--and then everyone else can see how great it is too, and wants to buy it. Success!

Less talked-about is that sometimes its turns out that we actually didn't have such great taste after all. Our output matches our taste but it still doesn't sell in enough volume to make a living.

Or sometimes it turns out that our taste is derivative. A Batman fan who makes a new superhero that simply mimics Batman might not be very successful with it. It's harder to make something original that matches the taste for Batman.

The crappy part is that there is no way to tell in advance who is going to make it or not. So we encourage everyone. The ones who make it will benefit us all...the ones who don't will fade into obscurity. It's a hard truth but it is what it is.

[pervycreeper]

I would even say that the vast majority of both producers and consumers of creative content have bad taste.