>>7678

>No its not. Its a pretense to "sell" that bullshit to the general public and justify it.


Actually, I would say that your argument is a pretense to justify treating artists like shit because they don't want to hand free work over to people like you, but whatever.

>There is always demand for new creative work, there is no need to monopolize monetarisation of existing old work. Especially in these days.


Yeah, there's always demand for new work, that's why Hot Topic is constantly ripping off people's art and putting it on T-shirts and selling it to trendy kids for lots of money, of which they give exactly none to the artists that actually created the images they use. There's no need for any protection from this kind of corporate dickery, how dare an artist think they can hold a monopoly on the products of their own thought and labor. Fuck them for thinking that, right?




>>7676

>Nonsense. You probably never even used those sites if you say such things.


I have accounts at both dA and pixiv, with (non-guro) art of my own posted on dA. So shove your condescension.

Of course, there will always be exceptions to any rule, but in my experience, the more skilled artists tend to be essentially reposting things they did in exchange for money, like commissions, or published work, or even "art trades", art done in exchange for another artists' work. Things done for donations on livestreams, also. Some of it's pretty obvious, when the description of the picture actually says "Commission for [User Name]". Some of it is less obvious, such as when an artist is employed by a publisher or game company or something, and they post production work. But such an employee, even when they post personal work for free, has that luxury because they are making money from their art at their job.

Then we have the hopefuls who post whatever work they can, anywhere, in an effort to get noticed. You get free work from them now, but as soon as they see an opportunity to make a living (or even extra grocery money) from their art, they will concentrate on that and the free stuff will slow to a trickle, if not dry up completely.

And yes, some people will just post art for the love of making and sharing art. Good for them! But honestly, the majority of them are amateur level. Some are indeed excellent! Most are average.

Even pixiv is starting some kind of "Fanbox" service which seems to be some kind of Patreon-like operation, and a large number of the artists I follow on Pixiv are jumping on that. Plus a lot of those Japanese artists have long been monetizing their work by printing doujinshi and selling them through various sites and outlets.

I suspect you're not as aware of that kind of thing because you don't want to be; you just look at the art and wallow in it and don't pay attention to the artist or what they say about the art, if it doesn't line up with your ideology.

>And how do you do that? how do you find those potential clients and make the waste their very valuable time on your worthless crap? how do you even prove that this is your work and you did not just download it somewhere?


It's like you don't understand how publishing works.