>>76571724The modern day anime style gets traced back to Osamu Tezuka with Astro boy
Tezuka's style was taken from Disney, Suiho Tagawa and more
Disney's style was taken from Max Fleischer and Winsor McCay and european art illustrations of the time
Max Fleisher and Winsor McCay took from the original political satires images and first comic strips ever made
The first comic strips ever made took from caricature work dating back to blah blah blah you get the point
All art is ultimately just copied upon and improved upon from a bunch of other people's work.
You don't care that art or styles are being stolen, otherwise you would be against almost all art, you just don't like the fact that the thin pretense of "originality/uniqueness" that artists pretend to use in order to skirt the line of outright plagiarism doesn't exist with AI
>So what if you copied 15 different styles and blended it all into one, at least you did it by hand!Such a flimsy ideal
