>>4265906Nobody really gives a fuck about how "real" your art is except (other) insufferable pricks. What is being a painter to everyone else? Just neat. Want to press how you should be admired more than anyone?
>oh wow i am so impressed, you wasted years of your life learning to do what chatGPT does, and what my phone does, but worse. go suck your own dick. Yeah bitch you're the same as you describe photographers, you're some retard drawing shitty versions of stuff you can AI generate, but you wasted something more valuable than $2000. The opportunity cost of time can be valued anywhere from $7 an hour to $1.5 million an hour (if you're warren buffet, who makes money while he sleeps). hey, honestly, warren probably spent less time investing than most people spend learning to play the guitar or draw anime, let alone paint. How many hours does it take to write a really, really fucking shitty novel? If you enjoyed it that time is priceless but if you didn't just enjoy yourself and wanted a real-artist trophy that time was worthless, you were working a job expecting a paycheck when you weren't owed one. No one cares!
normal people really don't have a tier list of artists disciplines... they have a tier list of artists.
god tier: guy who is also an artist and rich because of it
top tier: guy who is also an artist
bottom tier: douchebag who wants to be respected because he's an artist
The photographer is a point of jealousy and anger because he can be in top tier if he just doesn't act like a prick, and he can be in god tier if his mother went to a synagogue once. And the cost of entry is peanuts to anyone - cameras come as cheap as $10. And to make things worse, a modicum of self awareness makes him immune to ever entering bottom tier, where the majority of authors and painters currently live.
