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there’s a reason corporate-made art is clean, sanitized, and designed to make you feel good, and indie, pulp or hobby art is often weird, offputting, scary, challenging, derivative, extremely specific and hard to relate to
the first is trying to get you in their pocket, the latter is trying to say something that is, if not honest, then at least interesting, and innately representative of how weird, offputting, scary, challenging, derivative, extremely specific and hard to relate to people are.
there’s no financial incentive to make art for the sake of making art because that’s art that’s made to exclude you, unless its specificity and your curiosity is relevant to you.
but there sure is huge financial incentive to brainwash you into thinking a group of marketing execs and established billionaire corporations/publishers that never make you feel bad or explore a scary thought about anything ever while they actively brutalize attempts for unionization of the artists who make their product and exploit them until there’s no blood in them left to give
is making representative art the right way – all to get richer off of your moral dilemma and hysteriathe idea that art should be accessible and clean for everyone and used as an example of what to think about the world isn’t art, it’s propaganda and a profit motive. expecting all art to be like this doesn’t make you progressive, it makes you a conservative-capitalist conspirator that thinks being anti-intellectual is a virtue and curiosity and uncomfortable introspection is a sin
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