u/-SoulArtist-

Hi all.

This is a topic, given that I’m posting on the internet.

But lately, I’ve been really cutting down on my phone use because I realized I had a problem with it.

In doing so, I’ve started using the internet primarily through my computer and foregoing the phone, save for this post.

Something that has really become evident is how shallow the internet actually is. There is a lot of content on the internet, yes, but a lot of it is genuinely bot driven. If you take a look at your feeds, you’ll begin to see it’s just stuff you already like with maybe one or two new things you might like.

The art looks the same, the same comments get made, the same opinions shared, the same “hot takes” in fandoms, it’s all…eerie.

If you google anything, most of the results are ai generated nonsense and sourced from a myriad of real human made articles.

Nothing feels real anymore on the internet, and that’s sad because I knew what the internet was like before this.

I post my art in smaller communities because of this. At least there, there’s a higher concentration of actual people, and they appreciate it much more.

As an artist, this has been especially trying, because art is now treated purely as a commodity that people can’t even fully appreciate because of how fast moving the internet truly is. I’m not making Mona Lisa’s because in a way, doing that for social media is a waste of time and free content for the algorithms to eat and train their ai from.

Basically—this internet shit is kinda played out imo. It’s mostly ass.