that fucking second slide is everything.
art and the money it makes has NOT disappeared, it's just spirited away into bottomless corporate pockets. It's still profitable to endorse and support the arts, it just never seems like it is, because it's all immediately taken
"Sydney Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done."
May 7, 2025 03:23A friend's dad wrote a great but middling sci fi movie in 85 and just kind of lived on that for the rest of his life. There was some composer of a movie score that just turned to field recordings after.
That's the part that feels the most frustrating. I can't even argue that previous generations of creators got paid their worth...
And it's gotten so much worse!
