One of the things I've really enjoyed about the internet and YouTube in particular are

the videos and the commentary that you get on storytelling.

I love storytelling, I love narrative, I love, especially complex storytelling that has

lots of layers and themes and stuff to take out of it, stuff that challenges you and

pushes you and that's the mark of good art, bad art, reaffirms whatever you were feeling

a second ago and makes you feel like you don't need to change or grow or be challenged

in any way.

Good art has a bit more of a provocative factor that pushes you toward some kind of change

or clarification of why you think, what you think.

Maybe that's part of why I'm not that offended by art and I understand that other people

view art differently and maybe are a bit more offended by art that pushes a boundary

here or there.

Whatever the case, I like the way the internet pushes back on art.

In some ways has been disappointing because when the artists, the people who make the movies

and write the books and do the music and whatnot hear this push back and then they clearly

try to gerrymander their plots and their stories and their work around what the internet wants,

you get Star Wars Episode 8, it's a dumpster fire.

But when artists art and critics criticize, you get a pretty good balance in terms of

how everything works.

Again, what's been pretty fun about the internet is what's an easier model for content than

watching what other people make and then responding to it.

That's a pretty smooth sailing model where you've always got the next bit of obvious content

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