Microblog Memes

It can be hard to share art online just for the sake of sharing. If your art isn't "good" by traditional standards, you get unrequested criticism at best and open mockery at worst. If your art is good, the first thing people say is "wow, you should sell this!" (which is not bad if you're trying to make a living as an artist, but it can be frustrating when you're just trying to relax by doing something creative.)

As a result, it's hard for artists of any skill level or style to let themselves create just to create. They feel constant pressure to improve or monetize, and to please others, when really it's beneficial for all people to just pick up a brush/instrument/camera/etc. and let the creative juices flow.

The idea isn’t that art can’t be a consumable product.

It’s that it doesn’t necessarily have to be that. That art can exist separately from commodification.

It’s part of a current narrative about the value of art in a world where AI can do art. The poster is implying that art has value outside of money, and to reduce art to “then who will pay the artists” is doing a disservice to the idea of art as a way that humans connect and communicate.

The neat part of art is you can think about it however you like, so long as you allow others the same privilige

Just another gatekeeper looking to feel superior to others in whatever small way they can. Art is not one thing or the other. Plenty of people create art to be consumed, and plenty create art for their own expression. Sometimes people even do one and then the other.