wholeheartly agree with this. I keep copies of all the VNs I like on a hard drive because the porn game sites I download them from will inevitably die!
I wish I adopted this idea sooner - there's quite a bit of art from Japanese Geocities sites (for an old game nobody knows/remembers) that's just gone forever now. I have a piece on the pinboard in my room that was printed out in 2005 and it may be the only surviving copy of this particular piece of art.
the online art community definitely influenced a lot of how we see art. a lot of arguments for not reposting art lie heavily on the monetization of art, which is an entire thing that also sucks. on the other hand is the intimacy of the art; I wouldn't want others repurposing something special that I created. but then if I really didn't want that to happen, I would know to not just share it online
art seeps deep. it's kinda wrong to birth such a thing into a big world only to leash it up. we really can't control what other people do to our art but I don't think we should see that as a bad thing unless it literally kills you or something
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wholeheartly agree with this. I keep copies of all the VNs I like on a hard drive because the porn game sites I download them from will inevitably die!
I wish I adopted this idea sooner - there's quite a bit of art from Japanese Geocities sites (for an old game nobody knows/remembers) that's just gone forever now. I have a piece on the pinboard in my room that was printed out in 2005 and it may be the only surviving copy of this particular piece of art.
the online art community definitely influenced a lot of how we see art. a lot of arguments for not reposting art lie heavily on the monetization of art, which is an entire thing that also sucks. on the other hand is the intimacy of the art; I wouldn't want others repurposing something special that I created. but then if I really didn't want that to happen, I would know to not just share it online
art seeps deep. it's kinda wrong to birth such a thing into a big world only to leash it up. we really can't control what other people do to our art but I don't think we should see that as a bad thing unless it literally kills you or something