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i don’t get it
5 years ago
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A journey ends
i don’t get adoptables, as I’ve mentioned before.
It just feels a little too much like...selling out? It’s definitely in the same vein as prostitution and whoring oneself, and that’s not meant to disparage sex workers, they’re far more courageous than the average human. I guess it’s just adoptables are more or less meaningless to the content creator except, maybe, creating adoptables as an act of honing one’s drawing skills.
I would much rather see an artist’s gallery full of work that they are passionately proud of, with narratives behind the subject matter and rl anecdotes woven through the process of a work’s creation. Instead after a 10 year hiatus I return to see FA is victim to the western capitalist manifesto†, it’s oozing at the seams with hundreds (thousands?) of very talented artists trying to supplement their income by subjectively devaluing their art and selling their creations, combinations, amalgamations, automations, and acquired skills. There just doesn’t seem to be any heart in it.
That’s not to say that the buyer of said adoptables is somehow getting screwed. I mean if you’re willing to spend you’re hard fought(or not) expendable income on a character/creature design—and it may even mean something to said buyer—that’s not to say it doesn’t subjectively hold any value. But it certainly never and likely will never appear to hold any value in my eyes, except maybe from a conceptual standpoint.
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† I always admired the furry fandom because it was never tied to a single company, corporation, game developer, movie, production/marketing agency or any other shill of an entity that hovers over literally every other pop-culture fandom in existence. Ie, Star Trek fandom had the shows/movies, the reboot was fracking the teat of long-thought dead cash cow. Star Wars had the movies and massive merchandising campaigns, and now Disney owns it, that point proves itself right there. Comic-Con has many hands in the cookie jar rooting around for money that consumers will throw at their favorite show/movie/comic/g-novel/book/etc (how many goddamn superhero movies and tv shows do we need and we certainly don’t need a ½ dozen Spider-Man and Batman reboots in roughly 20 year span; how many do there have to be before that shit becomes a low-key religion? Have you seen how ridiculously zealously comic fans debate over the minutiae regarding the canon of superheroes?). The furry fandom does, from time to time, focus on the various cash cows (Bolt, Zootopia, MLP, etc.) that fall under the genre of furry media/merchandise, but it was never governed by those Mooooo-lah makers. I feel like that’s something that’s changing, and ironically enough, not by any corporation or company hungry for money, but from within, by its own denizens.
It just feels a little too much like...selling out? It’s definitely in the same vein as prostitution and whoring oneself, and that’s not meant to disparage sex workers, they’re far more courageous than the average human. I guess it’s just adoptables are more or less meaningless to the content creator except, maybe, creating adoptables as an act of honing one’s drawing skills.
I would much rather see an artist’s gallery full of work that they are passionately proud of, with narratives behind the subject matter and rl anecdotes woven through the process of a work’s creation. Instead after a 10 year hiatus I return to see FA is victim to the western capitalist manifesto†, it’s oozing at the seams with hundreds (thousands?) of very talented artists trying to supplement their income by subjectively devaluing their art and selling their creations, combinations, amalgamations, automations, and acquired skills. There just doesn’t seem to be any heart in it.
That’s not to say that the buyer of said adoptables is somehow getting screwed. I mean if you’re willing to spend you’re hard fought(or not) expendable income on a character/creature design—and it may even mean something to said buyer—that’s not to say it doesn’t subjectively hold any value. But it certainly never and likely will never appear to hold any value in my eyes, except maybe from a conceptual standpoint.
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† I always admired the furry fandom because it was never tied to a single company, corporation, game developer, movie, production/marketing agency or any other shill of an entity that hovers over literally every other pop-culture fandom in existence. Ie, Star Trek fandom had the shows/movies, the reboot was fracking the teat of long-thought dead cash cow. Star Wars had the movies and massive merchandising campaigns, and now Disney owns it, that point proves itself right there. Comic-Con has many hands in the cookie jar rooting around for money that consumers will throw at their favorite show/movie/comic/g-novel/book/etc (how many goddamn superhero movies and tv shows do we need and we certainly don’t need a ½ dozen Spider-Man and Batman reboots in roughly 20 year span; how many do there have to be before that shit becomes a low-key religion? Have you seen how ridiculously zealously comic fans debate over the minutiae regarding the canon of superheroes?). The furry fandom does, from time to time, focus on the various cash cows (Bolt, Zootopia, MLP, etc.) that fall under the genre of furry media/merchandise, but it was never governed by those Mooooo-lah makers. I feel like that’s something that’s changing, and ironically enough, not by any corporation or company hungry for money, but from within, by its own denizens.
