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just saw a thing from a whiny shitlord game dev who sucks and i feel like none of us are doing our due diligence of constantly repeating that if you don't want your shit to get criticized as if it's a huge social influence consider not posting it on the public internet
if you want to make art without thinking very hard about what you're putting in it, you don't actually have to advertise and market it to as many people as physically possible. like. that's an option. you don't have to blast it everywhere as hard as you can.
the internet's fucking dangerous and maybe we shouldn't all have it. none of us are capable of controlling the impact of anything we post publicly. you can't really get away from that and nobody owes you any sympathy over i.
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99.999% of artists didn't actually spread their shit to literally the entire planet at any point in human history before the 20th century. that's when we got that ability and so far it has not worked out very well.
99.999% of artists didn't actually spread their shit to literally the entire planet at any point in human history before the 20th century. that's when we got that ability and so far it has not worked out very well.
if you make problematic art and you put it in a gallery and a few thousand people see it, nobody criticizes it the way they would if you put it on TV where millions of people see it. the internet really is not healthy for any of us.
you can still, of course, do that. but you're going to get the eyes of the entire world on you, and you *are* toying with power you don't deserve, cannot control, and probably do not fully understand. because all of those are impossible.
nobody deserves instant access to millions of peoples attention. nobody can control what's done with information spread on that level. and human minds are incapable of fully understanding just how many audiences they're talking to at that scale.
not that game dude probably wasn't making mean spirited art in bad faith, but in the past, making mean spirited art in bad faith had limited impact. it just *wasn't that bad.* worldwide distribution networks changed all that.
the problem with mass media is not that we don't all have equal access to it, it's that anyone has access to it at all. it shouldn't exist. nobody should have it. and because it does, everyone is compelled to try to compete in a market too large for our society to handle.
the only way to win is not to play
