I'm an american and I need a new 18 an hour job (it is literally not worth getting pay that is any less especially if you have a car and buy food) . I'm working as a janitor at an adult arcade and my friend was shot at twice. My friend and I are both trans. I've been sexually harrassed and screamed at and I have suffered intense ptsd inducing events cleaning here. I've been donating plasma for extra cash. I don't want to die.
I'm also a digital artist and I have friends that constantly stream on twitch nonstop every single day on top of regular work. They don't fucking eat. You blockheads that have no idea about the labor you exploit through entertainment you consume on the internet especially after you claim to support artists when NFT shit started happening and destroying our only sources of income. A lot of you view our entire life sacrificing dedication to these skills as nothing at all and something only privileged people DO. But WHenever you want ANYTHING from us you want it FOR FREE because “art isn't labor”.
Making digital art is one of the cheapest hobbies you can fucking have so every single person who even has a smidge of content to give the apps they fucking put it all on there hoping praying to find commissions or freelance work. Millions of people. Your view of artists as privileged is so goddamn slimy and evil. Grifters who make ai art and NFTs, bourgeois money laundering furniture makers in art museums are NOT artists. You consume exploited art every single fucking day on the internet and anywhere on a fucking screen! YOU DONT EVEN NOTICE IT! YOU DONT EVEN CARE ABOUT THAT MOBILE AD! THAT IMAGE WAS MADE BY A HUMAN BEING!
3d artists and animators are ALSO outsourced labor that are unpaid and work in fucking SWEATSHOPS that can drop everyone mid production without notice. FOR YOUR AAA VIDEO GAMES AND YOUR SHITTY MARVEL TV SHOWS. SHAME shame on YOU! ARTISTS ARE EXPLOITED WORKERS! Do the FUCK better! PAY ARTISTS!