Yeah, capitalism's fault.
So much for seizing and democratizing the means of production. If you want to create art that has value, that value must come solely from an artificial scarcity (talent, time, expertise, experience, education, materials, the ability to even engender ones life toward creative pursuits in free countries without outside forces like war or political instability interfering) that is otherwise prohibitively imposed upon everyone because Nepenthe needs to inflate the value of her pony pictures. It's Nepenthe's world after all, and we're all just living around her. Since Nepenthe has already been gifted a privileged enough life where she could cultivate, of all things, art skills, or was gifted with enough talent to earn money from her work, the perceived value of her work is otherwise higher than it would be if she didn't hold others back through this prohibitive process. You don't sound exactly like those fat cat, factory-owning, apartment buying capitalists that buy prohibitively expensive production machines and growth assets at all!
For someone who complains about fragility and privilege all day, believing the world owes you a living for your pursuit of your passion projects is the most entitled mentality ever. Nobody is stopping her from living a gratifying life by creating art, but nobody owes you a value guarantee for that art - especially, nobody owes you value solely because it's inflated as a function of the deprivation of beneficial facilitating art tech imposed on the world. King of Fighters 13 had 400 to 600 hand-drawn pixel frames of animation per character at at HD resolutions - it was beautiful and everyone thought we'd never see it again because it was completely economically unfeasible. Some analysts argue this one game was a major factor for the SNK bankruptcy. The extensive 2d animation in Street Fighter 3 similarly is a relic of the past. But with AI, we can facilitate artists to produce beautiful games like this again. Think of the wellspring of creativity and resurgence of beautiful art that can come from this. Think of all the people lacking in artistic talent, but have an abundance of other talent that could be put to the forefront through an artistic tech medium. People with profound vision and storytelling ability can have new modes of creation. Creative work will never lose value so long as it's desired - it's part of the human experience to be wondered by beautiful things. But you can't impose artificial restrictions on scarcity to inflate that value and then complain about capitalism, that's hypocritical as fuck. Her selfish assumptions about what she's monetarily owed via her own personal creative fulfillment is peak
whiteness. Congratulations on your crackerdom, Nepenthe. Someone get this honorary cracker a golf hat, some kakis, egg salad, and some cheddar flavored Sun Chips, you Friends-watching, uni-cycle riding, dill pickle-in-your-tuna-eating, wordle-retweeting, golden retriever-kissing, cracka ass bitch.
