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Art today is definitely and absolutely still made with love and passion. Films like Everything Everywhere All At Once (or the recent episode of The Last Of Us)

Art today is definitely and absolutely still made with love and passion. Films like Everything Everywhere All At Once (or the recent episode of The Last Of Us) take a popular concept or franchise and make it their own. Fanfiction is still at crazy levels, thanks to websites like AO3. The book industry still has outstanding popular modern works which stand on their own and refuse to let genre define them. (Becky Chambers is my favourite for this, with her hygge scifi). There's also a whole host of internet culture - lots of tumblr tags and subreddits - that are actively filled with sharing, passion and community, not for good art that sells, but something that lifts the spirit in its own weird way. Anecdotes aside, at least for independent artists it may be economical effects that constrain passion and make projects feel so for-profit. Which have always been a thing, unfortunately. Given technology, maybe there is so much art to consume that making art requires forgoing distraction and the general worry that the art will be bad (which is nonsense, because some art simply has a limited audience). In today's era, stuff like EU art grants [0] can do some good, although I have the feeling that patronage-per-capita is considerably lower than it was in the past; it would be an interesting metric to look at and try best to increase. [0]: https://culture.ec.europa.eu/funding/cultureu-funding-guide https://culture.ec.europa.eu/funding/cultureu-funding-guide

hbossy 4y ago
Taking established media and making it a LGBT story is has been pretty much mainstream for long time. We live in a world where all major corporations put rainbows on their logos for a month every year, just to meet the expectations of general audience.
- jacooper 4y ago
  When did the audience ever want that? Its rather a movement that companies just ran with, and audience tolerated or ignored.
  - chasd00 4y ago
    If corporations don’t play along they certainly get punished for it. The audience expects them to be onboard or else.
    - jacooper 4y ago
      When was that the case? Its not the audience really, but someone or something else.
      - rightbyte 4y ago
        I think it is virtue signaling to the elite.
cfltlayoffs 4y ago
I do think Daniels are a great example of actual counterculture like this article is talking about. Swiss Army Man is weird as shit, and deeply affecting. EEAO has very much broken into the mainstream while preserving a lot of their style and sensibility. I think there will probably be a set of filmmakers in the future who saw their movies at a young age and thought "you can do that?"

hbossy 4y ago

Taking established media and making it a LGBT story is has been pretty much mainstream for long time. We live in a world where all major corporations put rainbows on their logos for a month every year, just to meet the expectations of general audience.

jacooper 4y ago
When did the audience ever want that? Its rather a movement that companies just ran with, and audience tolerated or ignored.
- chasd00 4y ago
  If corporations don’t play along they certainly get punished for it. The audience expects them to be onboard or else.
  - jacooper 4y ago
    When was that the case? Its not the audience really, but someone or something else.
    - rightbyte 4y ago
      I think it is virtue signaling to the elite.

cfltlayoffs 4y ago

I do think Daniels are a great example of actual counterculture like this article is talking about. Swiss Army Man is weird as shit, and deeply affecting. EEAO has very much broken into the mainstream while preserving a lot of their style and sensibility. I think there will probably be a set of filmmakers in the future who saw their movies at a young age and thought "you can do that?"