I would add onto this that there’s also a lot of people who take being interested in art to mean you need to be a stuck-up, closed-minded snob about literally everything and that mindset is just actually toxic. It doesn’t make you more artistic or talented to dismiss shit. It makes you boring.
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we aren't in a "fanfic recession" but that someone decided to use these terms to complain reveals the real problem; a lot of 'fans' are thinking like shareholders and executives, devaluing creative work, refusing to support the artists they have, and looking at everything with the lens of profit
