man idk i just... i can't get behind big art with huge budgets and corporate PR campaigns anymore. if it makes me a snob so be it. but i need more art made by someone for an audience of themselves and maybe 50 people
i don't care about AAA gaming's latest flop, i don't care about Hollywood tax write-offs in the form of films, i don't care about Universal Music Group's latest industry plant, i don't carrrrrreeeeeeeeee give me something realllllllllllllllll
Two drums I will continue to beat are that 1) liking things made for an audience of 50-100 sickos is virtuous and healing for the soul and 2) people who complain about "snobs who think they're better than you for listening to obscure music / film / whatever" are reeeaallly projecting their insecurities! But also they're wrong and the snobs are right
i will sample your two drums and make a beautiful beat with them. art is forever peace and love on planet earth
i'm tired of having to pretend like there is value in all popular media. i'm tired of being told what The Next Big Thing is. i'm tired of drinking from the content faucet. i'm tired of success stories. i work in a marginal industry with a deep-seated inferiority complex built around an art medium that allows loners and small groups of weirdos to create stories that are better than any overhyped VFX dreck. i'm tired of hearing music that sounds like the music i was listening to ten years ago but worse, marketed to the people who weren't there and don't want anything TOO scary. i'm tired of "fandom culture" becoming the predominant demographic. i'm old. i'm a nasty old grandma. i'm a hipster mummy entombed in my ringer novelty tee and trucker cap deep within a forgotten crypt, surrounded by weird niche art made by freaks and friends that will never see broad-spectrum corporate-marketed nationwide release. it's nice here. i like it. fuck off.