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.
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)