> less people tried to create and switched to critique. I'm not convinced of that — I suspect that in earlier times, there were just as few creators, but we di

> less people tried to create and switched to critique. I'm not convinced of that — I suspect that in earlier times, there were just as few creators, but we didn't get exposed to all* the critiques. (for instance, if I were to make this argument I'd have to go back much earlier than 30 years, because 30 years ago people were already putting their S&M Barbies up on the web; we were already on the second generation of browsers: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ ) However, under the hypothesis that fewer people try to create and switch to critique instead: that'd be their problem. EDIT: * eg, the other day on Zhihu I saw someone asking "What is even the point of Joker 2?" Nowadays we can see criticism from 5 billion people without even scrolling down.