>>3711285It's an interesting medium, from an user perspective you get the passiveness of a movie but it requires patience/tranquility and good taste which not many have, and if they do they stick to good movies or other stuff like comics.
The creators who can talk about it are usually snap-makers laundering money too busy scheming with museums, wedding/event workers who are jaded enough to not talk about it in their free time, rich hobbyists who might be good or bad but are too busy taking pictures and obsessed gearfags who only meddled with photography long enough to make videos and try to live out of Youtube views/merch/affiliate links.
And the process entry for making photography is filled with envious and highly paranoid fine art print mafia goons saying nothing they see is good, wedding workers and photo shop shills peddling and requesting more and more gear to the point that if you take a cool picture with a 1/1.7 your a scrub, and the hobbyists are either busy snapping or whining that most good camera gear have a high cost entry, hence why nobody but tourists are taking pictures of that cool green hill in South America because a full frame there costs just as a much as a well-maintained coupe.
Add to that entire thing that there's no premium social network for photographers: Instagram is thot windowlicking with shit uploading limits, Facebook busts your image quality up and there's no good way to organize shit, 500px is a chink scheme to sell data to companies and your photos to sweatshops to make frames for cheap interior design stores or to asian newspapers as stock images, Flickr has oddly marketed themselves as a storage service and stuff like Pexels or Unsplash are used only by students and cheeky merchants to rip your stuff up without any feedback.
Frankly, photo is a shit art medium that still is strangely rewarding and easy enough to do IF you have the money. The community is and probably always was crap or shady as fuck in the upper echelons.
