Saw a take about "creativity being dead" after watching a viral art critique video

I was scrolling YouTube last night and stumbled on some guy claiming all modern art is just copying with no soul, which felt like a bad take from 2015. Then I checked the comments and people were actually agreeing with him, saying things like "real art died after 1980." Has anyone here ever actually seen that kind of thinking change after they show someone a specific example of something new and cool?

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taylor_patel1d ago

Show em something like that weird claymation music video that went viral @fiona_carr26, blows their whole argument apart.

the_robin1d agoMost Upvoted

Oh come on, that "weird claymation music video" thing gets brought up every time and it's not even the best example. Tool's "Sober" video was done by the same guy who did the SpongeBob stop motion episodes, which is way more impressive if you ask me. And that viral one people always point to was actually a student project that got picked up by a label, not some big budget statement. The real issue is those classic animation shorts from the 70s and 80s that actually terrified kids, like the one about the suicide mouse or the claymation Christmas special that gave everyone nightmares. If you want to prove art isn't dead, show them something like "The Adventures of Mark Twain" or that weird Russian film "The Snow Queen" from the 50s that still holds up today. But that viral music video? It's fine, just not the knockout punch people think it is.

fiona_carr261d ago

Has anyone here actually tried showing those people something like a modern animation short or a weird indie game that clearly has a LOT of thought behind it? It's like they get stuck on one bad museum exhibit and decide EVERYTHING made after their favorite album dropped is worthless. I think the trick is to find one thing that's new but still hits that same emotional nerve, then they usually shut up about it being dead.