Commissions, patronage, subscriptions, everything else rando digital artists do when any idiot can post a JPG everywhere and DMCA takedowns accomplish roughly dick.

Meanwhile - you wanna talk about people who've been fucked over by corporations that decide their original artwork is too close to something a dead guy made?

Or look into whether professional artists were having a good time, before all this? Intellectual property laws have funded and then effectively destroyed countless years of effort by artists who aren't even allowed to talk about it due to NDAs. CGI firms keep losing everything and going under while the movies they worked on make billions. The status quo is not all sunshine and rainbows. Pretending the choice is money versus nothing is deeply dishonest.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Just internet beg” oh okay. Shows exactly how much you value the people making the art you want to feed into the instant gratification machine.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

'How money?' Existing lucrative business ventures by quite a lot of artists. 'So beg!' Yeah you got me, how intellectually sincere, gold sticker, you can leave.