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This strategy kinda selects for "great at SEO and promotion", not "great at art".
by egypturnash 4y ago
This strategy kinda selects for "great at SEO and promotion", not "great at art".
- anigbrowl 4y agoYes, that's my point: popularity and quality are only weakly correlated, and platform economics select for the former.
- fsloth 4y agoReciprocally, historically this is nothing new. Fame begets adoration. Mona Lisa became famous painting and hence valuable only by the publicity created due to it’s theft. Without the publicity it would be exactly the same painting, only not as valuable. There are several effects at play affecting an art pieces ”market worth” and ”quality and skill of the art” is only one component. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
- a4isms 4y agoOf course it does. There are some very skilled musicians who are extremely popular, and also thousands of entirely interchangeable boy-bands and girl-bands and what not that have hits as long as a large PR machine is there to market them, and as long as they focus on milking their celebrity. Making money in music isn't that much different from making money in tech. This very day there is/was a post on the front page about Adam Neuman(sp?) getting bankrolled yet again. Why? Because he is described as the world's greatest pitch man. Likewise, crypto. Who's making money? The smartest programmers? or the people who know how to promote their projects?