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RANT: ArtSpots is stupid
18 years ago
Coming from the perspective of someone who will never be an artist, I would like to submit that ArtSpots is fucking stupid, just as Yerf before it was fucking stupid.
There's this idea that everyone who complains about "quality controlled" art sites is just a disgruntled artist who didn't get in. It's for the benefit of the viewers, y'see. We viewers who don't want to wade through crap and refrigerator art, blah blah etc. Maybe it's true that some furry art fans or whatnot like it, but I have a feeling that the only people who really enjoy the whole "exclusive club" shit are the artists who are in the club, just so they can enjoy their manufactured e-cred.
Why do I need the admins of some art site to tell me what I want to look at again? I'm perfectly capable of determining what art I like. Do we really need a bunch of reviewers protecting is from the horrible unimaginable scourge of BAD ART? BAD ART ON THE INTERNET?
Look, I know the real reason for "quality control", and it's because some artists look at other artists they perceive as less deserving in some way or another, and they see how they get a lot more pageviews or commissions and they want some way to shut the rabble out. But think about it. Why do you care about pageviews and internet popularity? If it's really that important to you and you're that much better, use your skills to draw popular art. If you think that's compromising your artistic vision or whatever, then you shouldn't be caring about popularity in the first place. And as for commissions, there isn't any way you can force people to commission you or buy your art, so it's a lost cause. The popular artists will get more commissions, and that's just economics.
Let Yerf die already. The only people who cared about it after its disk crash were the reviewers and artists who were already on the site. Stop pretending your "quality control" bullshit is for the benefit of the masses, and get over yourselves.
There's this idea that everyone who complains about "quality controlled" art sites is just a disgruntled artist who didn't get in. It's for the benefit of the viewers, y'see. We viewers who don't want to wade through crap and refrigerator art, blah blah etc. Maybe it's true that some furry art fans or whatnot like it, but I have a feeling that the only people who really enjoy the whole "exclusive club" shit are the artists who are in the club, just so they can enjoy their manufactured e-cred.
Why do I need the admins of some art site to tell me what I want to look at again? I'm perfectly capable of determining what art I like. Do we really need a bunch of reviewers protecting is from the horrible unimaginable scourge of BAD ART? BAD ART ON THE INTERNET?
Look, I know the real reason for "quality control", and it's because some artists look at other artists they perceive as less deserving in some way or another, and they see how they get a lot more pageviews or commissions and they want some way to shut the rabble out. But think about it. Why do you care about pageviews and internet popularity? If it's really that important to you and you're that much better, use your skills to draw popular art. If you think that's compromising your artistic vision or whatever, then you shouldn't be caring about popularity in the first place. And as for commissions, there isn't any way you can force people to commission you or buy your art, so it's a lost cause. The popular artists will get more commissions, and that's just economics.
Let Yerf die already. The only people who cared about it after its disk crash were the reviewers and artists who were already on the site. Stop pretending your "quality control" bullshit is for the benefit of the masses, and get over yourselves.
I absolutely agree that it's elitist. That's what I like about it.
Also, uh, congratulations on having the same tastes as ArtSpots reviewers?
who knows why someone would enjoy people shoving things down their throat, or i guess more appropriately, starving them...
As a person who used to be on Yerf, I'm honestly glad that site died. It was elitist; especially when I noticed certain major artists consistently bending/breaking the rules and not being called on it. I also find artspots' review system a joke as well. I hate the art school mentality that they tend to have; I'm more concerned about the originality and feeling of the piece moreso than someone's perspective or whether or no the arm looks like it was cut out of an anatomical reference.