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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I bet a lot of gamers can relate to this around 2008. People were talking up Shadow of the Colossus and Mass Effect because they proved that games could be art. But what ended up happening is the industry promoted a bunch of shysters and pretentious amateurs in a cargo cult race towards legitimacy, like Anita and the clowns who work for Kotaku.
The problem is larger than games, though. Nerdy franchises across all mediums became stupider and more political as they tried to be more thoughtful. Some point out the desire for sophistication itself is often the problem, but although I agree, the root cause runs much deeper than that. We are facing a whole generation of middle and upper class millennials, now firmly in the workforce, who have been conditioned by the elites to blindly accept the totemic credentials of our culture such as "expert" pronouncements and New York Times headlines and whose minds have been utterly polluted by the K-12 system that raised them in place of their parents.
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.
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.