So an internet personality that a lot of people pay attention to got his hands on some digital audio production software and a couple of high-end cameras and started making stuff. Power to him, I say: all of us should be making stuff.
But because this person is an internet personality that a lot of people pay attention to the stuff he’s been making has resulted in a lot of buzz. On the one hand, a non-trivial number of people out there are instinctively cutting him down because of his micro-celebrity status or his wealth or his success or for whatever other reason someone might be inspired to mock or ridicule someone they’ve never met.
On the other hand, a non-trivial number of people out there are seeing this quirky and different and unexpected and interesting stuff he’s been making and celebrating it all as “art”, doing so without any sort of aesthetic justification for what they mean by the word “art” and instead probably just confusing this highly loaded term with something that’s “quirky and different and unexpected and interesting”.
I suspect that if there’s one thing that these two polar opposites have in common it’s that they both stem from the same cause: those among us who find it so easy to take down the makers and the doers among us and those of us who confuse “art” with the first original creation we lay eyes upon both likely do so because not enough of us are busy making things.
This is unfortunate, and sad.
