I heard someone say this before. Are they actually actively teaching people to have worse art?
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They are.
They justify it, but they are. The justification and thought process is this: People who want to be artists, do ART. Depending on their skill level, that can range from Seraph Inn webcomic art tier to Sanic meme art tier to stuff that should be in museums, but regardless, the key point is they're willing to put in time and effort, and personal thought, into their art.
College in the modern era isn't about education. It's about employability. Someone who takes a month to make a masterpiece isn't employable. Instead, the goal is art that can be used and applied, quickly made and quickly discarded. That can be easily dictated, and standardized across multiple artists.
The West has always been assembly-line in its artistic works: A comic book is written by one person, storyboarded by another, line-art by a third, shaded by a fourth, colored by a fifth. With a standardized, easy-to-imitate style, you can have multiple artists doing a work. The writing can be done by committee, the art can too. If you have a unique art style, or even if it is not unique but it is classically trained or skillful, that replaceability, that swappable parts in the machine known as the animation/comic/game industry, doesn't work.
So you go to college to learn how to be bland, unoriginal, samey, and plain. How to be a good cog in the machine. The fact you're learning art instead of physics or programming makes no difference there.
Its so gross how much they destroy art. Dont know why they think it will work, when i see something with low effort art (unless i know that they didn't have the resources or unless its a specific style like 8bit or anything obviously intentional and its easy to tell the difference) i automatically assume the rest of the product is probably low effort as well and im usually correct. But with this sort of disrespect against art, its easy to see why they spend their time trying to destroy the quality of art and stories for the sake of marxist politics. Cause they dont care about it at all.
College and further education has become its own virtue signal. "look at me I have sunk X hours into this futile activity to prove my employability." the quality of said education doesn't matter anymore (hence the move away from merit and grades).
This logic is also why, if you have almost ANY period of time being NEET you are by default likely blacklisted, trashcanned at interviews. Which then leads to you devaluing your labors worth by taking apprenticeships, agency work, or debasing yourself for a $8/hr job by offering to work a month's "probationary".