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If you need to say the world's most popular artist in place of a name in a title then you probably are not that famous. Isn't Banksy the most well known artist

• catchnear4321 3y ago
  the nature of popularity is part of the point being made by the author. yes, banksy is the most easily recognized, commercially successful modern art commodity object producer.
• throw0101a 3y ago
  > Isn't Banksy the most well known artist these days? That's so 2010s. semi-/s Elvis and the Beatles used to be some of the most well-known musical artists, yet how many people born more recently would be familiar with them. "Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." — Paul Simon, "The Boy in the Bubble"
  • tgv 3y ago
    In my daughter's generation (early 2000s): practically everyone.
  • throwaway290 3y ago
    Most of Beatles fans I encounter are half my age. I don't know what's going on, I think Beatles are quite boring and very shallow but maybe they were on to something.
• scythe 3y ago
  I think Bill Watterson probably has a pretty hefty cultural cache as well although he's as reclusive as they get.
• cookiengineer 3y ago
  It's kind of a justified title if people generally only know the brand, not the creators behind them these days. And from a critics' perspective that makes a huge difference, as pointed out in the article.
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• elendee 3y ago
  "most profitable tiktok trend" more accurate. Fame has to be measured along specific indeces of space and time.