/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>has slop always been slop, even when it was human made?
Uh, yeah? People (artists) have been shitting on artstation-core, rendercore, and general vapid unoriginal illustration for years. But the reality is, that's what normalfags consume like it's 2-for-1 McDonald's.
And yeah, these are the artists currently pissing themselves in fear. Dudes like RJ Palmer and his gay overrendered pokemon and dino shit. These are the artists fed en masse into the Machine, because that's what the people demand, what they've always demanded, and they never cared about some weirdo fag doing his weirdo fag art shit in the corner. Most people are not really interested in art, deep down. You show them a hyperreal portrait and they get that, you stylize or "interpret" it or be too novel and it's confusing if they lack visual literacy.
But those people are not "we." They're them. Unless you identify with them.