>>7699874>>7699907Speaking as the guy who made it, I'm both honored and a bit meh about it.
It's really great that it's done as well as it has, and it's really cool seeing it in novel places (like I remember some "big-ish" YT channel I looked at a few time had it constantly in the background Modern Vintage Gamer iirc), but next to no one actually knows I made it or checks out my other stuff.
I look at it and see it as pretty average, and a bit telling of my (low) skill at the time. I still don't know why it was successful.
I feel like I just got lucky with it and put it out at the right time for it to blow up like it did, or maybe I did catch lightning in a bottle and I'm stuck chasing success of it again.
It's a one-hit-wonder that I wish I hadn't had. At least that early anyway. Wish I had had a bit more experience under my belt and a larger portfolio of work.
Now it's pretty much too late to really "own" it, since it's literally become one of the most generic images to have to the point that it's become "that wallpaper".
