erikcason on Nostr: [Why does NFT art have to be so bad?] Because it’s not art, it’s just kitsch ...

[Why does NFT art have to be so bad?]
Because it’s not art, it’s just kitsch garbage.

It is specifically low-brow, degenerate tastes of extremely poor production quality, technique, thought and skill to very poorly mimic real art. This is done specifically to masquerade as a veblen good for people stupid enough to buy this charade and will think they can pass it off again as ‘art’ to other unfortunate souls who may think they are talented enough to to beat the MLM scheme that pretty much all of these are.

Most digital ‘art collectors’ are of too poor of taste, too stupid, or much more likely they are simply degenerate ‘art collectors’ who have found a parasitic niche to pumping and dumping these nauseating JPEGs which obviously and readily insult the very name that is art, and pull it deeper into banality and stupidity that insults the very concept of art.

It’s too bad, as inscriptions provide an extremely powerful tool of communication on top of the most powerful censorship resistant network in the world…and people want to use it for fucking pump and dumps.

It’s fucking gross.

I challenge anyone who calls themselves an artist who is involved with any of this to raise themselves to the challenge of producing real art. So far outside of Project Spartacus and a few select others—I have see no art—just the degenerate degradation of art towards the nihilistic hell these autist wish to shove it into for a few sats.

The only save grace of all of this is that these idiots make it seem so stupidly innocuous and useless they provide cover for the much more radical tooling that I believe will develop in time.

We will just have to wait and see if real artist start using it to produce real art with it—only time will tell. Until then I will continue to cringe in despair and vertigo each time I see this kind of trash.