/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

generic is when you use the first take of an idea and and go straight into depiction with zero thoughts about refining the idea further
its very easy to have an idea, anyone can do it. idea guys with zero skills have existed for a long time, as well as businessmen who get ideas about making it big just based on one idea or preconception about the industry but refusing to actually understand what's going on since that would take time and eventually losing all their money on an idiotic bet
non-generic art should come off as something the average rube can't fully materialize, but then you get people who think that all it takes is to have something unique thrown into the mix, only to feel like whatever they just put out has zero points of interest because in the end, they still didn't refine it beyond the idea despite trying to be a special snowflake.

for what its worth, a lot of things that are considered generic these days weren't generic when they were first made, but they inevitably inspire so many people through the unique qualities of the original works that those ideas get widespread enough that people's ideas will be thoughtlessly shaped by those qualities