"Became irrelevant"? They made a decent living for a number of years off of their creations, without having to sell the rights to some mega-conglomerate and wi

"Became irrelevant"? They made a decent living for a number of years off of their creations, without having to sell the rights to some mega-conglomerate and without ending up in the kind of sudden-celebrity death spiral you see all too often. They're still producing Homestar Runner content today, though at a much slower pace (I presume it no longer pays the bills on its own). If your only metric of "success" is becoming a massive celebrity and being a household name for the rest of time, then I think you've got both a very skewed idea of what is possible for 99.999% of people, and, in all likelihood, a very frustrating future ahead of you.