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[Will @willforfeit]

@raynefq Real life

[TrueAnon @TrueAnonPod]

@curtis_yarvin I’m beginning to suspect you don’t really have any clue what you’re talking about and are just sort of autistic and on amphetamines. I still support but feeling glum

[Will @willforfeit]

Charlie Kaufman

[Will @willforfeit]

Bootleg cds were a sick thing if there’s anything worth nostalgia baiting it’s that idea

[Will @willforfeit]

@SkinnyYoungThug The “I Am Music” of video games

[Will @willforfeit]

Banger, admitting this is the start to something else don’t know what else but definitely something else

[The Happy Smiler ⏸️ @Articus_chad]

I've always updated towards changing circumstances and have axiomatically never coped about what the world ought to be.

I've sometimes followed this to the point of arrogance; encouraging fellow artists to play the algorithm, trying to convince my classmates to join me in dropping out of grad school, etc.

This has always been the winning strategy. The consistent Sub Stacker or video essayist is more likely to get the big break than the tortured writer LARPing like it's the 1950s. The artist with a broad understanding of pop-culture and the market is definitionally more valuable to an audience than the death-driven idiosyncratic.

despite this being true, rapidly updating only works when you can read the tea leaves. It was obvious in 2015 that artists should be on Instagram. It was obvious in 2019 that short-form would become key for reach. In 2026, it is not entirely obvious what you should be adopting or where you should be orienting.

For the first time in my life (and I'm sure most reading this) I don't know where to point myself. It's entirely unclear what will even be viable in the next 2 years. This doesn't stop at formats or platforms, it goes all the way down to ideas themselves; what is even worth discussing anymore? what will remained unsolved by the 2030s?

There are no predictions to be made and no writing on the wall besides what is already abundantly obvious. The 2030s will be to the 2020s what the 2020s are to the 1950s. I highly doubt there will be space to write meaningful work, to add to the canon. There will be no generation defining book of the 2050s, there will no dominant school of thought in the 2040s. We live in an ever-present now, one that is so dynamic it feels like stasis. you couldn't even write a relevant book today as it would become outdated by the time you finish the second chapter.

In lieu of this, I think I was wrong. Constant updating is no longer a viable strategy. You can no longer source meaning from keeping your finger on the pulse. Meaning lies in the evergreen and the perennial. The idiosyncratic writer LARPing like its the 1950s is correct, they ask themselves what a genius creative would do and then they do it. They fear not the changing tide for good work forms the sediment under which the tide flows.

[Will @willforfeit]

@redaction But the fact people reacted how they did shows they never understood Kanye as an artist but because hindsight is 20/20 we look back at his transgressions in the 2000s as based now even though then he was hated for those things and “canceled” to the standard of that decade

[Will @willforfeit]

@redaction I think it was honestly Kanye’s reaction to nothing being truly transgressive and the nazi thing fell flat there’s a market for everything Nick Fuentes is mainstream even the nudity thing with his wife seemed like a part of it like public nudity is the final transgression

[Will @willforfeit]

@waitthisiscrazy the thing is all art literally can’t be just fed into machines I think this whole discussion is centered on a internet/digital art perspective which is small in scope to what art has been and continues to be

[Will @willforfeit]

@inkolore_ Decline in care or just market optimization how did we not see this coming most things you see AI proliferating in are things intrinsically aligned with market principles advertisements, data, content etc

[Will @willforfeit]

@LouisTheInterim Also a lot of the pro ip arguments seemingly only see the internet as the only framework of distribution as if these platforms built upon predatory business models will or should forever remain stable

[Will @willforfeit]

@FunkyTK1 @datnofact But we’re talking about IP and things people make that’s pushed to platforms that is used as trading data, companies can’t steal the painting you’ve made that’s hanging in your room that’s why I made the content distinction

[Will @willforfeit]

@Articus_chad Theory-fiction vindicated

[Will @willforfeit]

@dwsoulz @isthatvark @LouisAnslow Pirating has similar consequences in certain situations but I mean I think the benefits and reason for piracy is worth that risk especially when it’s in spite of major corporations

[Will @willforfeit]

@dwsoulz @isthatvark @LouisAnslow They do tho with their shitty products you think Apple and Microsoft aren’t draining wallets as well when their products can’t function to full capacity without add-on fees or literally the monthly fee Adobe asks for to use their products

[Will @willforfeit]

@dwsoulz @isthatvark @LouisAnslow Dude the biggest bad actors already control the market on software but you’re paranoid about the little guy come on

[Will @willforfeit]

BINGO, best argument against personally using ai to make art without being conservatively romantic about it - actually liking the process of making art or preferring it

[GRIMES ARCHIVE @grimesaechive]

Grimes when asked if she used AI to create ‘PSYOPERA’

[Will @willforfeit]

and we’re acting like the crumbling of privatized corporate capitalism isn’t a good thing

[Jaden Williams @JadenJTW]

The Death of Software.

[Will @willforfeit]

Most modern day tools for music making are a product of free market capitalism so idk what should you truly be mad at when we’ve reached the apex that will most likely transition us into the automation of arts