boy was that a mistake. If there's a hobby you like, ,its always best to keep it niche, lest the mainstream completely ruins it and the hobby's communities as well
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The major issue with calling video games art is that “Art” has been butchered at its core. A banana tapped to a canvas is considered art while people like Thomas Kincaid is crushed by critics and considered bad. I’d rather not consider video games modern day “Art” but something better.
One of the most overlooked failures of the education system is that the vast majority of people don't even understand something as basic as the definition of art. The title "art" does not confer any designation of quality by itself, it's just a definition of a human product with a particular aim.
I’ve always thought that people who struggle to define “art” are either stupid or dishonest.
And you can see how that failure transfer over to much bigger consequences in society, such as treating "human" as an innately good thing that no longer applies to bad people and allows you to remove their rights and treat them as you wish.
I am completely convinced that the majority of art is just money laundering. Especially with retarded trash like that banana taped to a wall.
Snobs gonna snob. Kincaid isn't bad; just boring.
Apparently bananas taped to a urinal is what excites them. I never deal with this crowd IRL. I have explicitly moved away from where they are.
A lot of art is just tax evasion anyways.
It’s money laundering. Unnamed foreign cash buyer, bribe an auction house, sell it for 100x, claim the 99x as legit washed cash income.
For sure.
Or, you buy a painting for (eg) $10k. You hype up that guy. His art's value goes up. You donate it to somewhere and write off $50k. It's also part Ponzi scheme since eventually someone will get stuck with this worthless art like a hot potato. Right now they're all just using it to ends.
As for the auction house thing, I saw a YT about people bidding on their own auctions to drive up the price of classic video games.
The final donation in the chain is to a non-profit, usually a hospital, who puts the art up in a wing somewhere for a month or two, then quietly discards it. Since they're non-profit, it doesn't matter if they were holding a high-value asset or not.