Was 2022 officially the worst year for artists?

[Anonymous No.6364656]

>AI
>The death of Kim Jung Gi
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
>NFTs still here

What else am I missing?

[Anonymous No.6364661]

>X months schizo is back

[Anonymous No.6364667]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
Imagine paying money to shit on white people

[Anonymous No.6364670]

I don’t think so, but Kevin O’Neill just died as well, so it might be up there

[Anonymous No.6364674]

A.I. is the second renaissance.

[Anonymous No.6364678]

>>6364656
Stop being a doomer. It's better for artists now than is has ever been in all of history.

[Anonymous No.6364681]

>>6364656
You forgot the part where you didnt draw anything again.

[Anonymous No.6364683]

>>6364656
>just more excuses for quitters and doomers

The truth is the universe never cared, the world doesn't care, people aren't beholden to care about your struggles, that's all up to you. Stop looking for meaning and start imposing it.

[Anonymous No.6364690]

>>6364656
1999-2008 were the best years. Everything went to shit after social media popped up. I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

[Anonymous No.6364696]

>>6364674
Bring it on...

[Anonymous No.6364708]

>>6364656
28.00 B.C was the best year for art in history.

[Anonymous No.6364726]

>>6364708
soul

[Anonymous No.6364809]

>AI
best thing that ever happened in art
>The death of Kim Jung Gi
his legacy lives on stable diffusion
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
GET A JOB
>NFTs still here
as it should

[Anonymous No.6364822]

>>6364809
weak bait. try harder next time

[Anonymous No.6364839]

>>6364656
None of these affect your ability to make art. And why else would you be making art other than enjoying making art?

[Anonymous No.6364860]

>>6364674
So were the dark ages

[Anonymous No.6364868]

>>6364690
Social media is unironically dying.

[Anonymous No.6364872]

>>6364656
Made about $34k so far this year, made $60k last year so yeah this year was really weird

[Anonymous No.6364911]

>>6364656
>The death of Kim Jung Gi
>it's real
>died at 47
what the fuck...
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
don't care I'm trad

[Anonymous No.6364917]

>>6364656
Year of happiness and celebration here

[Anonymous No.6364921]

>>6364696
Hmm I wonder what happens next

[Anonymous No.6364947]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
based
art is back on the menu

[Barry The Artist No.6364958]

>>6364921
We gotta rise up a little earlier this time around. Learn from history.

[Anonymous No.6364964]

>>6364690
>1999-2008 were the best years
thanks obama

[Anonymous No.6365007]

>>6364839
this is just a shitty thinly-veiled vent thread. it's easier to complain as always

[Anonymous No.6365018]

>>6364656
>AI
AI interest waning, +First actual lawsuit against AI was recently filed and will set precedent for the future
>The death of Kim Jung Gi
DoitForHim.jpg
>NFTs still here
NFT interest waning
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
there will always be another social media site artists will migrate to en masse (ex tumblr -> twitter) so this is a nothing burger. Even so, pay 8$ for ez priority you wouldve never gotten otherwise anyways
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
Trad chads winning as usual

[Anonymous No.6365098]

>>6364656
>death of Kim Jung Gi
I was really busy for the past month and didn't even hear about this. RIP

[Anonymous No.6365131]

>>6365098
Some AIfag got clowned on for using his work for a model blissfully unaware that he's using a recently deceased guy for clout.

[Anonymous No.6365145]

>>6364656
Despite all that it has been a pretty good year for me art wise.

[Anonymous No.6365149]

>>6365018
>Even so, pay 8$ for ez priority you wouldve never gotten otherwise anyways
He's one of the founders of AI imagen. Artists by virtue cannot give him any money.

[Anonymous No.6365173]

>>6364958
That's exactly how the plot went
Instead of making peace with the machines (who willingly wanted prosperous cohabitation), humans rushed to nuke the bots away,twice.
same way bitter artist want to nuke ai art away.

[Anonymous No.6365178]

>>6365173
shh dont tell them. youre supposed to just let it be so that they think karma is just a mysterious bitch.

[Anonymous No.6365192]

>>6365173
how does that robot dick feel

[Anonymous No.6365212]

>>6364678
It has been better for artists in 2021 then ever in history. 2022 took straight vertical dip into being one of the worst ones. If AI manages to becomes something more then discount trial of commissions for pirate coomers, its unironically over, and nobody will ever make it.

[Anonymous No.6365218]

>>6365173
Its not AI, its machine learning, nothing but dumb .exe program that makes pictures of what you ask it. Also, if robots were not incompetent at everything except for handful of tasks that they then become perfect at, people would not hate and fear them. People would agree for a peace with AGI, but this is not AGI metal person that you can be buddies with, its a tool meant to replace you and take away what makes you you.

[Anonymous No.6365221]

>>6364656
>It's not my fault I'm unpopular

[Sorry The Artist No.6365252]

>>6365173
I mean before we make robots who are smarter than humans.

[Anonymous No.6365259]

>>6364868
What makes you think that?

[Anonymous No.6365303]

>>6364947
Jeez, I wonder if some official in USA is going to ask previous Twitter bosses what was that thing about, hmm...

[Anonymous No.6365427]

>>6364690
oldfag here. 1990-2000 were the best years. it's before digital everything kicked in: shitty CGI, shitty autotune, shitty digital art, shitty social media.
We had grunge music and good alt rock, cool comics (Image & indie), the best anime & manga just made it to the states, cool cartoons, actual cinema (classics like Pulp Fiction, not just shitty remakes and capeshit movies), and early internet before everything went to shit.
Naturally, this cultural environment was great for art. Too bad I was a kid during it.

[Anonymous No.6365534]

None of this is stopping you or me drawing, or even affects your drawing at all. And I say that as a CSP user, shit was fine back when it was MangaStudio. 2022 was the year I got my first art job so I'll remember it as a good year.

[Anonymous No.6365546]

>>6364656
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
No one here know something called "piracy" stop bitchings fags
>RK8JKG

[Anonymous No.6365550]

>>6365427
ow my fucking soul stop this.

[Anonymous No.6365562]

>>6364947
I will now save up for a civilian SpaceX ticket.

[Anonymous No.6365567]

>>6365562
dont give teslanog any money hes still going to kneel, just watch.

[Anonymous No.6365678]

>>6365018
>AI interest waning, +First actual lawsuit against AI was recently filed and will set precedent for the future

The intrest is waning in shitpost forums and discussion part of social media, since everyone already head that the art is dead and no longer wants to hear the same thing over and over again. The lawsuit is cool and all, but that does not change the fact that the tech is already released and open source. Even if UN declares tomorrow that AI art programs are now illegal and all the AI research companies are forced to abandon generative AI projects or go bankrupt, there are still fuckers with the programs on their computers, and with the source code and everything. It is really hard to kill, and you cant untrain the AI on your art when you decided to opt out of it, even though they are still not delivering the opt out feature yet.

The NFT, Twitter and so on are complete non-issues compared to AI. Like comparing broken toe to amputated arms.

[Anonymous No.6366222]

>>6365218
>it's not AI it's just machine learning software
Ah yes the semantics game. Filteted.

[Anonymous No.6366276]

>>6365678
>the cat is out of the bag sirs

[Anonymous No.6366502]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you
>now
Please tell me you’re actually not this retarded…

[Anonymous No.6366512]

>>6365427
that's great and all but you're describing the early 2000s not the 90s

[Anonymous No.6366520]

>he missed the early 90s
ngmi

[Anonymous No.6366747]

>>6366512
>that's great and all but you're describing the early 2000s not the 90s
um no ... examples of everything I listed:
>grunge music, alt rock
Nirvana Nevermind (1991), Smashing Pumkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
>Image and Indie comics
Spawn #1 (1992), Bone #1 (1991), Eightball #1 (1989—80s, but close enough)
>Best anime & manga
Cowboy Bebop (1998), Akira (1990), Also the 90s was when manga like Ghost in the Shell made it to the states.
>cool cartoons
Ren & Stimpy (1991), Beavis and Butthead (1992), Batman the Animated Series (1992)
>cinema
Pulp Fiction (1994), American Beauty (1999), Fight Club (1999),
>early internet
Admittedly this one did bleed into early 2000s, but the internet of the 90s was the pre-normie internet (my senpai was one of the first in my neighborhood to get dial-up, and I used it to look up esoteric nerdy shit like obscure comics and art)

[Anonymous No.6366781]

>>6365678
>the pajeet is out on the street sir
There is no need to put the poo back in the loo, it will just die a slow painful death

[Anonymous No.6366795]

>>6364656
actually if anything i'm more inspired than ever. ya I can't compete with ai coomer commissions but i want to hone this skill more than ever now

[Anonymous No.6368333]

>>6364656
They're using Kim Jung Gi social media to advertise nfts

[Anonymous No.6368345]

>>6364674
>>6364678
>>6364809
>>6365218
AI Jeet shills. Do not redeem my bastard.

[Anonymous No.6368487]

>>6365427
Go live in the past with your dusty bones, no one cares.

[Anonymous No.6368491]

>>6368333
> His legal name is Kim Jung Ki. -HJK
WTF... I've been living a lie.

[Anonymous No.6368505]

>>6365218
>ACKHUALLY ITS NOT "AI"
Good job autist

[Anonymous No.6368507]

>>6366747
>comics, cartoons
All goyslop, including Pulp Fiction (overrated)

[Anonymous No.6368598]

>>6365427
For me the cutoff is 2003. The whole 9/11 thing really stunted American culture and progress and we spent the next couple years collectively processing what happened and trying to cope with it up until we lied and went to war. America was extremely hopeful for the future around the turn of the century, stuff had this futuristic look and things like MP3 players and iPods were the gadget of new millennium along with Napster and limewire. We survived y2k and the world was our oyster, for about a year. Just last night I was listening through the top 100 dance hits every year from 99 and had to stop at 03 because the vibe shifted too dramatically. It's subtly visible in cartoons and games as well over a slightly broader timeframe.

[Anonymous No.6368718]

>>6364656
>Kim Jung Gi dead
I thought you were kidding. What the hell.

[Anonymous No.6368726]

>>6365562
You dumbfuck. Your enemy's enemy is not your friend, just a useful pawn. Nothing wrong with being happy twitter imploding but don't start sucking elons cock, you faggot. If anything celebrate that silver spooned manchild fucking himself with the twitter deal too. Two birds with stone.

[Anonymous No.6368739]

>>6368507
Not him but I actually agree with you. Looking back, the only reason why we didn't have marvelshit and endless melanin enriched remakes is that it wasn't time yet and the people making the stuff knew. The big difference is just that there were no fucking phones and social media. You had a relationship with media like, you bounced from IRL to media and then IRL again, you talked to real people. the IRL media was literally just something that you added to your life, now it IS your life and it's the people who are accessory, and they're so worthless as an accessory that the only way they make sense is as customers, so everyone's become some kind of utilitarian sellout whether it's for money or attention.people have eroded so badly after 2004ish when facebook came out and especially after smartphones it's not even comparable, it's like a whole different world. if you were born to be a kid in the technological age and grew up in a world with social media/phones you cannot understand how massive of a change happened in people and how horrible it is to have lived through this weird zombie apocalypse, with people turning into phone cyborgs. you have no idea how bad things are right now

[Anonymous No.6368812]

>>6364656
Kim Jung Gi was overrated, he mostly just scribbled with a pen. Don't get me wrong his style is distinctive but it's kind of a "once you've seen one Kim you've seen them all" kind of deal

[Anonymous No.6368829]

>>6364656
I guess so, but things will get better. Don't worry OP.

[Anonymous No.6368830]

>>6368726
yep two more weeks until tesla man goes bankrupt
trust the plan

[Anonymous No.6369319]

>>6364656
THERE ARE 12 THREADS ABOUT AI UP ON /ic/ RIGHT NOW

THERE ARE 19 THREADS ABOUT ELON MUSK OR HOW TO GET POPULAR ON TWITTER UP ON /ic/ RIGHT NOW

THAT'S A TOTAL OF 31 THREADS ABOUT 2 TOPICS

31

THIRTY-MOTHERFUCKING-ONE

XXXI

三十一

THREADS ABOUT AI:

>>6369226
>>6369059
>>6368525
>>6367635 (AND ABOUT TWITTER)
>>6367116
>>6367012
>>6366171
>>6364656 (AND ABOUT TWITTER)
>>6363640
>>6362886 (AND ABOUT PIXIV NUMBERS)
>>6357746
>>6357600


THREADS ABOUT NUMBERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA:

>>6369247
>>6368281
>>6367700
>>6367635 (AND ABOUT AI)
>>6367438
>>6367280
>>6366264
>>6365807
>>6364656 (AND ABOUT AI)
>>6364522
>>6364246
>>6363872
>>6362886 (AND ABOUT AI)
>>6362405
>>6360135
>>6356821
>>6356353
>>6348891

[Anonymous No.6369693]

>>6364656
>>AI

Changed nothing for the most part. Most artists hate it so trying to make a career from it is just going to get you dogpiled once people find out. People didn't magically lose customers or interactions like they kept claiming would happen.

>>The death of Kim Jung Gi

Yeah that sucks. He was a great artist but his lessons and art are still out there for you to study. Honestly this is the worst thing to happen on this list.

>>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8

According to artists it was doing that before Elon bought the site. Nothing has changed and how do you know it's the algorithm and not the fact that your art just isn't popular? You could also Migrate to another site but we all know nobody is going to do that. If they do, they'll end up right back on twitter because their audience didn't follow them and/or the site lacks the amount of social activity that twitter had.

>>CSP changes to a subscription plan

Pirate it, put money aside for the sub plan, or just buy the version for one single price and not have to pay for it again. If you have a source of income from a job or your art then this isn't impossible.

>>NFTs still here

NFT interest has fallen super hard since earlier this year. They'll never fully go away but a lot less people care about them.

>Worst Year for Artists!

If I've learned anything this year it's that Artists tend to overreact when they can and act like it's the end of the world or their careers every single time. There are alternatives and workarounds but they just want to cry and doom post.

[Anonymous No.6369822]

>>6368487
>Go live in the past with your dusty bones, no one cares.
I unironically do, feels good man.

[Anonymous No.6369829]

>>6364656
Cryptobros are getting fucked of late though, which is nice dose of schadenfreude

[Anonymous No.6369833]

>>6365212
Coomers are more human than kikes larp as art lovers. If they decided to just coom, they will just google search random porn. The ones who commission or join membership are genuinely adore if not love the artists.
AI is just a photo editor, cut and paste multiple art into one but faster and less efficient. People do this shit for years and none of them replace real artist.
The real problem is Kike will try to copyright "AI art" with multiple artstyle and they will copystrike artists for for simply just draw in their own style.

[Anonymous No.6369874]

>>6365173
>my lifes like a movie bro
woah..

[Anonymous No.6369885]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
Pretty good compared to being algorithmically supressed if you aren't a 100k follower redditor artist drawing One Piece memes or a retarded journalist.

[Anonymous No.6371024]

>>6369693
>According to artists it was doing that before Elon bought the site. Nothing has changed

It was doing it before but only for official tick accounts which within in the art sphere is almost no one, so it was barely affecting competition. Now everyone is forced to pay $8/month in order for their tweets to be seen. It's no secret they are going to tweak the algorithm so that unverified accounts are sent to the bottom of the pile, it's in twitter blue's terms and Elon admitted it in an interview. Whichever way you slice it, it's bad news for artists.

[Anonymous No.6371027]

>>6364656
KJG died? Holy fucking shit

[Anonymous No.6371028]

>>6369885
and now you will be algorithmically suppressed if you don't pay $8/month ontop of that. the mental gymnastics i've seen people use to praise this is crazy

[Anonymous No.6371036]

>>6364656
All that shit is completely irrelevant to thr traditional hobbyist artist who just does paintings for fun.

[Anonymous No.6371131]

>>6371028
So either
>a. Twitter dies and those people stop becoming a public image
>b. Twitter stays but redditors don't buy the subscription so those retards die out
>c. Those artists fuck off forever and give everyone else a chance to shine
>d. Fags start being desperate for money and are forced to draw something else for once
There's no losing

[Anonymous No.6371149]

>>6371028
>>6371131
Non checkmark artists will still be followed by checkmark accounts, who will retweet good art, turning it into priority tweets. Just don't be shit at art.

[Anonymous No.6371342]

>>6364656
>james gurney retweets ai art and calls it amazing
Feels bad bros

[Anonymous No.6371698]

>>6371028
Don’t like it? Start your own :)

[Anonymous No.6371712]

>>6371149
It's over

[Anonymous No.6371717]

>>6371342
I had a look at the source of that and ngl, this AI-fag has certainly stumbled onto some interesting vibes. Not surprised he is also a "not gonna share my prompts..." guy.

[Anonymous No.6371718]

>>6371717
Looks exactly the same as every other AI pic.

[Anonymous No.6371726]

>>6371131
>Twitter dies and those people stop becoming a public image

Twitter isn't dying. there are many more people using the site that aren't artist or dont care about artists that much than people who use it for art.

Even the people that claim they're leaving twitter are just going to come back when they realize whatever site they go to doesn't even have half the userbase and they start missing out on the social interactions besides just posting art.

[Anonymous No.6371735]

>>6371718
Really? I feel like I saw a lot of AI art, at least here and /g/, maybe twitter is different.

[Anonymous No.6371739]

>>6371735
https://mobile.twitter.com/infiniteyay
>NFT scammer

[Anonymous No.6371745]

>>6371739
pottery.
"The yellow submarine, technicolor, 1960s magazine advert, japan, album cover, by greg rutkowski"
That will be 0.5 eth. thanks.

[Anonymous No.6371795]

>>6371717
AI imagery can be interesting, I've come across more experimental stuff I dig. But like Zapata says, the problem is with unethical systems, and arguments over whether or not AI imagery is 'good' or can be 'art' miss the point.
Still, despite its creative potential, it's funny how most AI imagery is cliche, boring drivel. It reveals how art is more than just skill-building, it's having a vision.

[Anonymous No.6371944]

>>6369874
>what is predictive programming
Frogposters are RALLY dumb

[Anonymous No.6371959]

I care more about Kazuki Takahashi's passing

[Anonymous No.6372414]

>>6364656
>AI
People will get tired of it, people do care about artists, and if you keep drawing it makes the talentless eternal begs who built AI mad.

>The death of Kim Jung Gi
Shouldn't have taken the "vaccine".

>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
There are alternatives and these alternatives reset the competition, giving you the chance to compete with the 100k following artists. it's an opportunity.

>CSP changes to a subscription plan
?
Who in their right mind even uses CSP? Lol. Lmao. Use Krita, it's better organized and more versatile.

>NFTs still here
No one cares about NFTs.

[Anonymous No.6373044]

>>6364656
2022 has been a great year for me. Lot's of little self-improvement. The things you listed haven't really been noticeable:
>AI
It was fun for a few days of toying around.
>The death of Kim Jung Gi
Never gave a shit about him and I won't pretend to be sad about his passing.
>Twitter now algorithmically suppresses you if you don't pay $8
Just like it always has.
>CSP changes to a subscription plan
The current CSP version is all I need and the license is still permanent.
>NFTs still here
lol
Not the NFTs!! Oh the doom and gloom!!

[Anonymous No.6373241]

>>6373044
>Just like it always has.
it literally wasn't though, that's the point. there were almost no official checkmarks within art circles before but now everyone will be split between the haves and have-nots. You have to pay the fee to avoid being shadow banned

[Anonymous No.6373253]

>>6371717
Probably some mix of: doll house, backstage, toys, carneval, teddy bear, plush, playroom

[Anonymous No.6373412]

>>6373241
The non-checkmarks aren't being suppressed, the checkmarks are being boosted. You might think it's effectively the same but it's not.

[Anonymous No.6373413]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
M*sk arleady walked it back LOL

[Anonymous No.6374042]

>>6364674
Second Renaissance for tech, not art.

[Anonymous No.6374090]

>>6364656
>Twitter now algorithmically supresses you if you don't pay $8
twitter have always suppress anyone who dont have the check mark or less than 10k
nothing on twitter has changed except its users are being alot more obnoxious

[Anonymous No.6375655]

>>6364656

[Anonymous No.6375985]

>>6365427
This. The 90s was unironically the best time to live in a first world nation where the biggest political scandal in the states was whether the president had his dick sucked or not.

[Anonymous No.6375992]

>>6364868
If only.

[Anonymous No.6376020]

>>6364947
Holy based

[Anonymous No.6376023]

>>6364656
The death of twitter is a good thing because hopefully it'll push artists to move away from that dogshit platform full of mentally ill pronoun babies.

[Anonymous No.6376198]

>>6364656
>deviantart supports AI generated art
>pixiv killing half of their userbase
Yep

[Anonymous No.6376205]

>>6364656
>Kim Jung Gi dood

WTF I thought you were joking