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>>20032943
>who reads your story
But this isn't actually mean, is it? What you actually mean is "how many" people read your story, isn't it? Of course, that has no bearing on anything, in and of itself, because huge amounts of people have seen picrel (or its millions of nominally differentiated similars) and that doesn't make it any good. In fact, if the only thing that "really matters" is how many people are made aware of something, you're looking at the most successful artistic movement in history. By your myopic metric, it's the movement which "matters" the most, having been viewed by the most people, having generated the most currency, and so on. It's a work where objects are depicted, emotions are conveyed, and most importantly, you can visually identify it. It exists, it transmits ideas, you can see it. It seems to fit all the "purposes" of art.

What does it make you feel, again?

You can say that you're only interested in making money. It's not some great secret that most people these days care about things insofar as they are able to financially benefit from it. It's not entirely your fault. Our society is explicitly organized to create people exactly like you, who see things only in terms of dollar value, opportunity costs, personal gain. None of this is to say I'm going to stop shitting on you for buying into it completely. It's a choice you make to be Self-Promoting Profiteer #746251594, and the choice you make is shallow, unimportant, and trite.

>>18652627
This is a ridiculous way to frame the issue. Do you think Hieronymus Bosch would give up his life to be a graphic designer in 21st century Brooklyn making Google doodles?