no offense but is anyone else just… tired??
all of our entertainment is made purely for profit. anything made with genuine creativity or passion is cancelled or abandoned. millionaire ceos judge passion projects based on whether or not the lowest common denominator will instantly fall in love with it. and when that fails, artists watch the work they love get discarded like it’s nothing.
my dad tells me it’s all about the profit margin. that they’re not being cold, but clever. if it doesn’t make money, there is no value in keeping it around.
i’m a writer. this is the business i want to go into. but i’m losing steam and losing faith watching these unwritten rules get decided.
to succeed, you have to trend. you have to go viral. you have to cut yourself into whatever shape they want to see. you have to dumb yourself down. you have to sugarcoat, to smother, to dampen.
i don’t think it was always like this.
i remember campy adventures and colorful animation and creators who poured pure love into the things they made.
i’m tired of dollar signs and carefully crafted money makers.
i just want to feel something.
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