When are you building on an idea, and when are you just repackaging it for sale, when is it inspiration that motivates creation, and when is it commodification that motivates imitation. It is a subject never far from striking a nerve, ask 3 artists what they think of it and you'll usually get 6 different opinions. Which honestly makes sense, there is no cut and dry answer, the subject is littered with nuance. The point of transition from imitated to inspired is as nebulous an

That surmises far too much of the art championed in online spaces, pictures that paint a thousand words and all of them say nothing. Repeated visual punchlines about social media as pills we’re addicted to, so exhaustedly redone they’re verging on becoming meta comment on themselves. Lightroom presets and black mist filters, the controllable and purchasable Kinkade pipeline for millennials and Gen Z. The epileptic gifs and endless memetic iconography dance somewhere between W

Outrage politics and rage baited clicks have dramatically skewed the discourse around creative media. One post on reddit blows up, centred around a perceived issue (that may or may not be real depending on how much the poster was on their phone whilst watching, or just a general lack of media literacy) and suddenly that entire TV show/Film/Game is the worst thing ever. Next thing you know people who haven't watched or played it are picking it apart. Minor issues are touted as