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- _niko5
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
Not just Gen X.
Remember what made many of us feel special as kids? our ability to draw or make art? How impressed our schoolmates were? How no matter how much of a fuck-up we were at math or how much we horsed around, the teacher would give us a pass and actually respected us because we were creative?
Yeah, for the next generation, that's probably all gone now.
- Millennials, Gen-Z, Alpha live life under a constant 4K microscope socially...prophetone
- everything is (potentially) recorded, scrutinized, media over-stimulation is off charts, de-sensitization at all time highprophetone
- I agree – i feel like the instant access to everything means that nothing is special any more, and there's not as much boredom that leads to magicDaveO
- little is cool anymore, it's all snapped to rails or an industry/platform formula. where are the wild rock bands, crazy movies, explosive creative pop culture.prophetone
- there are amazing rare examples of this of course... but pre-2000s it was like an explosion of creative musi, visuals and the artsprophetone
- the motivations have shifted away from striving for the creative magic as THE GOAL - now it's just focus on maxing 'likes, subs, mentions, shares'prophetone
- and most importantly imo - the 'zombification' of the, especially, younger generationsprophetone
- like now, even if a young person sees something inspiring! special! freshly-creative! they 'pause for a sec say MEH and keep doom scrollingprophetone
- All of this just in time for fast food approach of A.I. - which imo will create millions of more kids saying MEH out there even if actual great creativeprophetone
- Ok enough of this, time for my vitamins and Metamucilprophetone
- nah keep going. I think you are right.cherub
- You felt special?palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…renderedred
- lol yeah not special more like bad-ass...I felt special when I tried to do math ;)_niko
- jonny_quest_lives6
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
As a Gen X'er I don't recall a time when the bottom wasn't perpetually falling out of every creative industry...
- yuekit6
- Hello. You've reached the winter of our discontent.prophetone
- Non-ironocally.palimpsest
- In the words of The Lucksmiths: It’s the winter of our discount tent! Great band! Clever.sab
- Think anyone got rich designing this poster? Because some of you think this was made in the golden era of design . Lulz.nb
- microkorg11
- haha good for themhans_glib
- i like thisCalderone2000
- YEAHHH!!OBBTKN
- Follow the money! https://www.youtube.…SlashPeckham
- go on brent!stoplying
- bainbridge6
Punches For:
Every company that sends me a survey after buying anything.
- BonSeff6
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
I read the article, then I thought about godzilla
- Godzilla doesn’t want this for any of usprophetone
- ^ lolNairn
- prophetone6
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
This is a similar feeling when Flash creative boom ended overnight.
Only instead of a firecracker and losing a finger... we just unknowingly walked three steps beyond the cliff edge while holding the comically-large 50s ACME ball bomb with the lit wick (looks at camera before the drop)
- Continuity2
80's-90's MEMORIES
"Do well in school, go to university, and a lifelong career will fall in your lap," they said.
- heli kohl?neverscared
- nobody:kingsteven
- Don’t remember anyone saying anything remotely like thisnb
- utopian4
- There is a god!nb
- April Fool's!Continuity
- The Simpsons predicted his death for April 12 2025.ApeRobot
- Continuity2
THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN
Yeah, I read this article a couple of days ago, too. Fucking depressing.
- #TraumaTuesdayspalimpsest
- #MardisDeMerdepalimpsest
- flol @ #MardisDeMerdeContinuity
- dittomonospaced
- _niko11
- noooice!
see? we're bragging about openAI and there's fucking phones taking ludicrous shots like this... all is goodmaquito - Re: Nikonmaquito
- Jesus Christ, that's apocalyptic.
Also ... where in Greece was this shot? That architecture's a dead giveaway!Continuity - :) indeed, it was in a little town 20km from Delphi_niko
- As you slowly scroll the pic upward, it looks like the back of a curvy woman, and then "BAM" it's just a cloud, no ass. :(Akagiyama
- Apollo speaksGnash
- Well NIKO, why are you sharing this in; Show YOUR latest pics?milfhunter
- ^ Uh-oh!Continuity
- Don't be a Thessalonikid!palimpsest
- I know, I know, milf, but I did the honourable thing, and trust me, you don’t want him on here! :)_niko
- Are you challenging us?
Can you get him on Discord, at least?palimpsest - haha, he was actually on here briefly during the newstoday days, didn't survive the cuntiness of this place :)_niko
- noooice!
- mantrakid13
making beats
My ambient album dropped today!
"Echo Chamber Made"
The album is all about my journey with anxiety and my experience medicating it the past couple years, I dont think i could have written this the way it is without seeing what its like to have NO anxiety for once in my life.
Stream it here: https://ghost.ffm.to/echochamber…
ps Shouts out to @cruddlebub whose ambient mastery was a huge inspiration in the back of my mind while writing a lot of this stuff!
- Listening on Spotify. So wonderful. Huge congrats to you! I'm working away on an album I've been trying to really focus on for a few years now, andmg33
- seeing people put out new music is inspiriting and motivating.mg33
- I wish I knew how to think through ambient tracks like this. My stuff is more instrumental and I've poured so much time into that over the years, butmg33
- hoping that after it's done I can move in a more ambient direction.mg33
- I love the first track Summer. It feels reflective, calming, meditative.mg33
- mg33 - i LOVE your stuff dude, every time youve postedmantrakid
- sessions that i can then find the best parts and clip them out, or combine with other parts, etc.mantrakid
- Hell yeah dude. And your cover is dope tootoemaas
- autoflavour4
FUCK ADOBE!
lol. opened email this morning to find Adobe quietly announcing they are increasing the monthly subscription by $10 ..
nope, fuck youdie and burn
- palimpsest9
blog
If a monkey can do better work than you, it’s not on the monkey, it’s on you.
Bouncing off Horp’s thoughts about Jagara’s thoughts on AI and commercial illustration. This isn’t just about the rise of the AI-powered Etsy entrepreneur, it’s about the quiet admission that the monkey wins. Her success is measured by commercial results, but her work by artistic standards, as if she’s breaking some unwritten rule. But there are no rules in nature. She’s doing exactly what the system rewards: speed, adaptability, orchestration. That’s not nothing, that’s fluency.
The real tension isn’t about AI, or even art. It’s about conceding that the terrain has shifted, and that effort, skill, and uniqueness no longer anchor value the way they used to. If the monkey wins under new conditions, blaming the monkey misses the point. The question isn’t whether she should be allowed to play, it’s whether you’re still playing the right game. And whether you should be playing that game in the first place.
- Or as Iverson might say: we’re talking about practice. Not the game. Practice.palimpsest
- The complete disregard for IP is appalling though.monospaced
- @pali yes, unfortunately, but yes.skinny_puppy
- IP is about ownership as a proxy for authorship. People will give more credit to a paint-by-numbers kit than to a well-constructed AI prompt.palimpsest
- One follows the rules. The other builds them.The disregard for IP is only appalling if you believe execution is more meaningful than conception.palimpsest
- Hmmmmmonospaced
- It's not on the monkey or you, it's on a broken system that incentivizes cutting every corner to separate labour from wealth.i_monk
- there are no rules in nature ? ever heard of law of thermodynamics...or gravity... + there are rules in culture ... its called regulation.. and copyright...neverscared
- thats what sets civilisation about from nature... otherwise monkey with kinves...neverscared
- I remember when I got a speeding ticket for falling too fast. Gaia wasn't happy.palimpsest
- Everything that can happen will happen, eventually.palimpsest
- gaia was happy.. because your fast driving caused higher co2 emissions and u got punished...neverscared
- when the lion is hungry he eats... thats the lawneverscared
- Can't argue with that!palimpsest
- Lions fail to catch their prey more often than not, to say nothing of all the adaptations that have evolved to evade/defend against them.i_monk
- Banding together to resist predation is a universal constant...i_monk
- If nature proposed a law of Universal Basic Prey I would totally be for it.
Another thing to ponder, do the laws of nature go against lions eating a Whopper?palimpsest - the cyborg lion needs only electricity...neverscared
- @paly AI, actually had a point. That interview was hours after a heated argument about running it back for the Finals, and Larry Brown finally relented..garbage
- ..set up a conference about him coming back, and all he was getting was questions about practice. Add to that, AI's best friend was just murdered.garbage
- Imagine a shouting match with your AD, you're almost fired, then not fired, everyone heard it in the hallway, an all-hands is called to clear the air..garbage
- ..and all anybody wants to talk about is your creative process. Oh my god we're mixing Philly metaphors, I'm out.garbage
- nicely stated.utopian
- Pretty sure this was all covered in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"yuekit
- https://asinomasimpl…palimpsest
- DaveO7
blog
Adding on to the AI discourse above, i saw this article this morning:
https://www.nytimes.com/interact…
Quite an interesting read with the examples of very Gen X careers (Rock & Roll music journalist was the clearest). Weirdly it reminded me of everyones obsession with learning flash and code in the late 90s. It definitely struck me to read things like 'graphic design / photography' in the lead, but its the same story where successive generations have a different landscape to the previous, and the winners adapt.
My wife used to work on music videos as a stylist in the mid 2000s and they had seemingly infinite money. 10 years later that industry as a fraction of what it was, and then another 10 later and its barely an industry. She is in a corpirate creative director role now, as the styling fell off very sharply after 2012
I am constantly hearing older colleagues talk about how different it was back then when they had real money to do shoots, how they shot for a week and came back with amazing 10 stills but that's pretty anachronistic now, and the skill is how you adapt to working with what you have (tools and budget).
I use AI to generate storyboards and style frames, but then i still also get an artist to draw up frames for me when its specific, so its a combination of bot. I feel glad to be able to support a traditional creative skill in some way.
Someone once told me that 'AI won't replace you, but someone using it might'
FWIW – that girl mentioned about sounds like a great business person, but ultimately selling something pretty disposable – and thats been around since the dawn of capitalism.
- Thank you.monospaced
- My wife sent that to me too! New tools that will only get better each day. We either can adapt and fall under or ride the waves. My 2¢misterhow
- The only ones whining about AI are the creatives it exposed as painfully average on their best day.utopian
- true... tarantino is painfully average...neverscared
- i see a great career in visual arts for trump.. he cant wrap his head around of an UI or brush and colors like bush... but he has the best words.. which makesneverscared
- the nr.1 prompts..neverscared
- “Everyone is an artist”
j.beuysneverscared
- PhanLo3
- Saw this in my feed and refused to click on it. I can just imagine the nonsense and insanity from the anti-vaxxers I'd like to keep what brain-cells I have left_niko
- America is beyond fucked.utopian
- Luckily there are 340,000,000 people in the U.S. It's this guys job to find the most outrageous 20 so you will click and he gets paid.toemaas
- And 160,000,000 of them, subscribe to MAGA ideology and conspiracy theories.utopian
- And some of them are now running the health system.yuekit
- webazoot6
Logo of the Day
Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
https://www.devonlive.com/whats-…
