>>9398936>Doesn’t make it good art. “Good” art is entirely subjective. Art is notoriously difficult to define and the quality even harder to determine in any meaningful way. About the best you can say is that it doesn’t appeal to you. There’s tons of art that is culturally really important that doesn’t appeal to me at all. And there’s tons of art I really like that is completely irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. Is “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Goya good art? If so, why? If not, why not? Is it better than Ruben’s “God Saturn devouring his son”? Why or why not?
>Avengers figuresI understand them as a product: there’s a market for them. But I do not understand the desire to own one, unless it is to play with them. I don’t understand the desire to buy one and then put it on a shelf. Or keep it in the box. The fact that they are popular does not make them more appealing to be. Some of my favorite figures are completely unknown original characters.
>>9398916>HipstersSome people who buy these things are indeed insufferable hipsters who buy them simply because they’re expensive and rare. They’re the type of morons unironically buying or lusting after Supreme merch. But a lot of collectors, like me, buy these things because we like the designs. If these things were 10 bucks, I would still buy them. Hell, I would buy so many I’d drown in plastic. They’re simply designs I like enough to pay for them.
