/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3300432
Imagination died when people started being obsessed with money, whoring trends, fan art, and getting "in the industry".
Nobody has the IQ or discipline to read books or do their research and create something with a solid atmosphere and art direction.
Nobody looks at art anymore. They just skim whatever social media feeds them and do their own bastardized version of an inbred style.
Literally every strong art direction becomes "industry standard" and then gets BTFO'd by industry professional meme trends.

Everyone insists that it's a "business strategy" that generi-shit is the only thing that sells. but yet again it's just an excuse to hide behind a lack of imagination.
It's fast-follow, generic-brand, underhanded barrel-scraping nonsense. same strategy as shitty iOS apps and selling T-Shirts.
You basically hide a shit product behind good art so that people will buy it, instead of creating a good product that's ""risky"".

Sure you could actually take the time to come up with your own thing, but that takes leaving behind the mainstream for a long time and actually go searching for things that actually appeal to you.
We've all seen the "Pointy Chins" catastrophe, but nobody ever puts two and two together and says "I might have to do that at some point." They just keeping copying and get absorbed into a cult of nothing.