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I find the backlash to platforms experimenting with new ways for digital artists to earn money for their work to be fascinating.

If price per work is high, artists like it but the potential market of customers is significantly smaller, especially in a bear market.

If price per work is low, artists don't like it but the potential market of customers is significantly larger, even despite a bear market.

If 2021 NFT mania was an anomaly, then clearly the internet-native approach is lower price, larger market. But emotionally, that feels bad.

Wonder how you bridge that.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

There already is no true market for artists in this space: it’s long gone.

I’d like all the teams in this space to quit trying to use “art” as a carrot on the stick when it’s never actually the carrot on the stick in the end.

There isn’t an actual appreciation for the arts to capitalize on—in the entire species writ large. The only thing now that can ever be marketed to the masses is: slop.