Steve
@sdv.eth
https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth/0xfb4a2a5d
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chaim.eth
@chaim.eth
the same thing could be said about how attention flows on instagram. great artwork can get little attention, while slop from big accounts gets a lot. i don’t think a crypto mechanic solves that.
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Steve
@sdv.eth
There was some good cyclical exchanges of currencies back when NFTs really were popping off. Degens supporting artists. Artists supporting artists. Artists supporting degens. It was a complex game of hot potato but a lot of ordinary artists got way more patronage than they could have ever done through traditional means. I probably spent thousands of dollars knowingly buying jpegs I had no intention of reselling, because I liked connecting with the artists as well as the art I was buying. It helped that this was under the guise of "magic internet money" where it didn't feel like a hard expense. Inversely, I cringe at the 3 $20 prints I bought from local art markets I bought years ago because I never ended up connecting with the pieces. I'm glad I supported local artists but now I have a sense of guilt donating these pieces. Crypto is all fake but it's very real in different ways!
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chaim.eth
@chaim.eth
I think a key point to tease out of that is *when* did you spend thousands of dollars in magic internet money on jpegs, and how much have you spent lately?
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Anemale🎩↑🔵ツ
@anemale.eth
Yes, this whole dynamic has allowed artists to make a living, I know it firsthand because I’m one of them. There are two of us in the Anemale project, and my friend has no other source of income besides our artistic work. Thanks to this, he was able to sustain himself by creating throughout 2024. I’m really happy to have been a part of that!
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