/lit/ - Literature

Because creativity and originality are not common.

You can measure creativity empirically, and people have. For example, get 50 people to sit in a room and write down every use they can think of for a brick in half an hour. Some uses will be identified by all 50 people. Some people will identify uses that nobody else does. Creativity is the quantity of unique uses you can identify. It's RARE.

Even rarer is that any of those unique uses will actually be any good. Different usually means worse.

Why do bad artists produce derivative shit that mocks the great works? Because they're bad and derivative.