GemDo you ever think about sprite comics/ flash animations and how there's like, a whole art form that's already died out and will never get appreciation in our lifetime. Like you're not gonna take an art class and hear about the stuff I grew up watching online, because it was all unlicensed, and now most of its already gone. And it's not that I'm saying it was good, because you don't measure art by "good". There's a whole generation of artistry people poured over and it's gone or soon to be.
People read about punk movements and street art, and subcultures and stuff, but this all won't be in text books. There's like, a whole unlicensed unauthorized artistry that's gonna be erased away in a startling amount of time.
aetios [MOVED]@LANthus the internet archive might have your back here
@aetios the internet archive is good, but it's not nearly the same level of peservation as other mediums out there, it's also less about literal saving and more about like... It's a artistry that will not be remembered or aknowledged even though there's artists right now that's inspiration directly comes from this kind of stuff
@LANthus I know man. But I think there's always been that sort of 'volatile' art, stuff tgat just vanishes. Think of the cave paintings. What we see, what's preserved is only a very small amount of something that I can't imagine other than being a very common artform in those days. Or people making wooden statues that degraded and were lost, which eventually inspired artists to make the marble and bronze statues that are preserved to this day
@LANthus Just like that I think that it's okay that not everything is preserved. We gotta cherish the art in the moment. Although preserving is cool i guess.
(is a rabid hoarder and music preserver)
lilith!@LANthus god that's kinda depressing?? i spent so much of my like, age 8-14 years on flash sites and sure, most of the games and animations were unremarkable, but they had an impact!
and aside from like, Homestuck and the massively well-known ones theyre just *gone*
and aside from like, Homestuck and the massively well-known ones theyre just *gone*
@queerchangeling and even the massively well known ones won't be remembered in the longer run. This thought messed me the heck up.
[rdh] moved to @Oof. This got me pretty hard. I used to love sprite comics, and not just the popular ones. Really niche comics that had only a handful of readers. And of course, back then things on the web were allowed to not make money, so even 100 active readers was thought of as great.