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If you go to any contemporary art institute it's full of still images which are just solid colors or like underwear stapled onto a canvas. Even if you like that

If you go to any contemporary art institute it's full of still images which are just solid colors or like underwear stapled onto a canvas. Even if you like that, most digital art is just anime girls with large breasts. The digital music you're complaining is just one portion of what is being made and it has mass appeal; you can also complain that sitcoms are so much worse Citizen Kane or McDonald's is so much worse than fine dining used to be. There's still nuanced music and film and food being made, and the complaint that popular stuff is "crude" is basically just a normal refrain in all areas of art, and I don't think digitalization is the primary culprit.

Karunamon 4y ago
"Art institutes" I'll give you, but surely you agree those are a pretty limited subset of what all art is. And even one look at one site like deviantART disproves your ideas about what most digital art is. I say this with no snark intended: you are demonstrably in a filter bubble and need to expand your horizons before you can accurately make comments about what "most" art is
- esrauch 4y ago
  Deviantart is effectively a filter to specific subset of digital art. It is reasonable to complain that SoundCloud isn't filling your "deviantart but for music" pseudo -curation needs, but that's super different than saying digitalization has somehow uniquely 'ruined' music.
  - throwaway4aday 4y ago
    I'm confused about what you're arguing for but this part: > Deviantart is effectively a filter to specific subset of digital art may be true since it is a community of artists that tend to have their own sub-genres that they move in but I believe the other poster was just giving it as the most popular example. Deviantart is really just the tip of the digital art iceberg, you can search and find a multitude of other sites hosting art communities as well as the sites of individual creators, YouTube and Twitch streams, Discord servers, etc.
    - esrauch 4y ago
      Im arguing that all forms of art including both digital art and music is still "good" and none of it has been "ruined". The very first OP in this thread is arguing that music was ruined by the availability of digital music compared to music 100 years ago. I think this is just the standard "kids these days" griping. I was trying to say that digital art isn't special, in that most of it is also crap but it's not hard to find good stuff. Music is the same as that and has not been ruined.

Karunamon 4y ago

"Art institutes" I'll give you, but surely you agree those are a pretty limited subset of what all art is. And even one look at one site like deviantART disproves your ideas about what most digital art is. I say this with no snark intended: you are demonstrably in a filter bubble and need to expand your horizons before you can accurately make comments about what "most" art is

esrauch 4y ago
Deviantart is effectively a filter to specific subset of digital art. It is reasonable to complain that SoundCloud isn't filling your "deviantart but for music" pseudo -curation needs, but that's super different than saying digitalization has somehow uniquely 'ruined' music.
- throwaway4aday 4y ago
  I'm confused about what you're arguing for but this part: > Deviantart is effectively a filter to specific subset of digital art may be true since it is a community of artists that tend to have their own sub-genres that they move in but I believe the other poster was just giving it as the most popular example. Deviantart is really just the tip of the digital art iceberg, you can search and find a multitude of other sites hosting art communities as well as the sites of individual creators, YouTube and Twitch streams, Discord servers, etc.
  - esrauch 4y ago
    Im arguing that all forms of art including both digital art and music is still "good" and none of it has been "ruined". The very first OP in this thread is arguing that music was ruined by the availability of digital music compared to music 100 years ago. I think this is just the standard "kids these days" griping. I was trying to say that digital art isn't special, in that most of it is also crap but it's not hard to find good stuff. Music is the same as that and has not been ruined.