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Apparently people (zoomers) call Jared Pike's dream pools "the poolrooms", and have added it into the backrooms mythos.
I feel like they took something beautiful and cool and turned into lame creepypasta fodder. This got me thinking.
I guess that's the endgame of all art born online is having the collective take it from the hands of its creator, morph it, and finally run it to the ground when the work's vitality has emptied out.
Internet art seems to be exceptionally prone to spawn transformative works. Its easy to see this happen when you take a look at the fandoms of digital native works, like homestuck and undertale. In a sense, the works seem like organisms. They are born full of vital energy, and as their popularity and strength rises they reproduce by sowing their seeds on the minds of its consumers. Finally they die off when the creative spark dissipates and they become relegated to lameness.
Its strikes me quite odd, since I don't see these processes happening in such a scale and intensity in other forms and genres of art. Sure, there's loads of fanfics of say, novels and anime, but there's not multiverses and multimedia projects and the iteration upon iteration that happens with what is born online.
What do you guys think?
I feel like they took something beautiful and cool and turned into lame creepypasta fodder. This got me thinking.
I guess that's the endgame of all art born online is having the collective take it from the hands of its creator, morph it, and finally run it to the ground when the work's vitality has emptied out.
Internet art seems to be exceptionally prone to spawn transformative works. Its easy to see this happen when you take a look at the fandoms of digital native works, like homestuck and undertale. In a sense, the works seem like organisms. They are born full of vital energy, and as their popularity and strength rises they reproduce by sowing their seeds on the minds of its consumers. Finally they die off when the creative spark dissipates and they become relegated to lameness.
Its strikes me quite odd, since I don't see these processes happening in such a scale and intensity in other forms and genres of art. Sure, there's loads of fanfics of say, novels and anime, but there's not multiverses and multimedia projects and the iteration upon iteration that happens with what is born online.
What do you guys think?
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