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
alsoplus:
most small audience media is people doing it as a hobby because it doesn't make enough money to pay to stay fed and sheltered and bills paid.
it doesn't make enough money to live off of, because there isn't a large enough audience.
it doesn't have a large enough audience to drive that, because they're having to do it in their free time, as a hobby.
figuring out how to leverage fandom to break that loop is how we eventually become able to challenge the giants
as a tv fan, this is rough because there's a limit to how indie tv can really be. but what kind sucks particularly is that people still make really weird tv, and sometimes that weird tv blows up, but when it happens it leads to the weirdest cycle of imitations as people chase that particular style of weird instead of embracing the possibility of letting other people be weird in new ways
