Maybe I've just seen so much at this point that nothing seems interesting anymore. Anytime I can think to come up with something, it just seems done before and not original. Not that originality matters all that much, but making things at least I WOULD FIND INTERESTING, would make sense. Yet, I'm simply uninterested.

>There is so much stuff on the internet, it's all just noise at this point.

Pretty much, yeah. Remember when "going viral" meant something? Now something goes viral every single day. But if you really care for what you make, you won't be making it for attention.

We all appreciate things as we get older. That's why I save shit in the present. >,<

>>25197
Meh. I think it waxes and wanes.
Some stuff we liked when younger we discard now, while others we save more of.

>>25198
Deffo waxes and wanes. Everything has ebb and flow. But when I look back, I think what a shame it was that I was so picky about only saving a tippy-toppest things I thought I'd like to remember because storage space was at so much more of a premium then.

And now with the ubquity of bigass SSDs, gobs of RAM, and heaps of cores, it's not nearly as herculean a task to sort, index, transfer, or otherwise manage a ton of noise just to maintain whatever your future self might decide was the relevant signal buried within it.

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Be a man and be physical.

>>25196
>if you really care for what you make, you won't be making it for attention.
Ding ding ding ding ding we have a winnox

If you're any kind of creative person, life becomes *incredible* again when you step back outside of anything having to do with """content,""" pleasing the """algorithm""" etc. The fuckheads who run such systems desperately need to keep creative people convinced that they have to participate in them in order to make it, because without all those creative people their whole business model would collapse.

Randomly getting big on the internet has NEVER been the best or only way for artists to make it. Not before, and definitely not now, since so many more pennies are being pinched and everything's so oversaturated. DIY never died, mailing lists never died, the internet outside of social media sites still exists and it's never been easier to make your own website. Sinking time into yourself and actual business ventures with IRL people in your immediate area still yields results. I'm surviving more or less entirely off of my art these days and I've still never really engaged in ""content creation""--I just post shit I like and, because all of my income exists in the real world, I never feel pressured to self-censor or otherwise change my work to please ""the algorithm.""