Nebula Owl

Fine art, photography, dance, theatre. I haven't seen much good art made by up and coming artists in their 20s lately.

Everything feels like it's being made for tiktok or insta.

HOWEVER, the good stuff I do come across is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING PHENOMENAL.

Like, holy shit. This person reallllyyy gets it.

And i think part of it is art is absolutely subjective, but art is also a product of its time.

Things ARE incredibly focused on social media reach and hyper-capitalist sensibilities. I can't think of the last time I went to an art gallery where people didn't have their phones out taking selfies with the art instead of... actually looking at it. (don't get me wrong I love a good gallery selfie, but if you've seen this.... you know the difference...)

Commercial artists who are just trying to go with what will get them paid will always be vapid and empty. They're relying on the ad revenue from online content, not just their cut from ticket sales.

And I'm not talking about people who are just trying to pay their damn bills. This is about the cream of the crop. The private school, art school, daddy paid my way mother fuckers.

It was the same for every generation of emerging artists before them.

Most of them are terrible soulless hacks.

I like my housemate who is 23, but she's got real world friends and a real world job and real world hobbies.

internet 23 year olds just discovered anarchism and are about to have the worst takes you've ever seen live and raw on gods own internet.

l remember being absolutely feral at 23. i thought i was the smartest person in the room, i was sleeping my way through my local community and everyone had my nudes. the value i percieved in myself was that people found me intelligent AND attractive. WOW.

Lots of weed. not a lot of good decisions in partners.

23 is rough. youre not a child anymore, but youre not really considered a 'real adult'. people talk down to you and act like youre an idiot or a nuisance.

So i get when young people come on this hellsite and vomit all over the rug. Look at your own discourse from that period and i'm sure it'd look very similar.

That being said. I wish i had someone to help me figure shit out. and if someone had just sat down with me and explained the social dynamics that were happening around me, i probably would have made much different decisions.

i imagine a lot what that kind of inter generational exchange looks like in a place like this. In a place where a lot of people have chosen family, their friends are primarily online, there's so much social isolation. What does mentorship look like?