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How is any of this surprising? If you ask 1000 people what they like in a painting, you'll end up with the average. That's how surveys work, by definition. Th
by AlxKe 2y ago
How is any of this surprising?
If you ask 1000 people what they like in a painting, you'll end up with the average. That's how surveys work, by definition.
That's not how you make anything extraordinary. That's the job of a creator who dives really really deep into their topic and comes up with all those details that make a difference - not that of the audience. If they could do it themselves, they wouldn't need you.
It's actually striking how this article is itself pretty cliché - like it's talking about itself on a meta level - in how it perfectly fits the contemporary narrative about how our popular culture is supposedly shallow and uninspired (or even more so: not as inspired as in "the good ol' days").
- l0b0 2y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted - it's tautological that implementing the average opinion is going to end up with something average.
- terminalbraid 2y agoI had the same take and I think it's unfortunate that people feel the need to downvote this. If you could inspire great art by questionnaires I'm pretty sure it would have caught on. In fact I think it's the deviation from and challenges to expectation that is necessary (but not sufficient) for great art. I'd be curious to see what would happen if you gave those same questionnaires directly to artists. I'd speculate you may get more variation than the masses, but probably still a surprising amount of overall homogeneity as well due to the constraining and limited nature of the questions themselves.