#But like. Oh how I wish big YouTubers could like. Do their art print/decor hauls from small artists on Etsy or some shit | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

moongothic · 4 months ago

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Big YouTubers doing like Temu hauls is one thing (like people gotta make their money, haul videos are popular, even more so when it's a cheap store/website that people can also afford to shop at. Overconsumption and promotion of it are bad, and these websites are shady for a number of reasons. Shit's complicated)

But there really is something kind of extra dystopian (not in a "super dystopian" but just "basic dystopia but with a little bit of spice on top") about watching a big YouTuber buy multiple art prints from Temu, that're a single stock cartoon drawing of a black cat slapped on top of famous public domain paintings, and then sing praises for these prints for being "high quality" and how they're so happy to decorate their home with them

#Moon posting #Like yes art prints from small artists can be expensive (compared to mass produced garbage that went directly into some CEO's pocket)#But like. Oh how I wish big YouTubers could like. Do their art print/decor hauls from small artists on Etsy or some shit #Seeing people in the comments be like ''oh those art prints were so cute I bought some myself thanks for the tip :)'' was just so #And the most painful part was looking at the stock cartoon prints and being immidiately able to think of at least one small artist #Who has made art vaguely similar to those but like. 100% from scratch. With their own hands. And it's beautiful. On my wishlist #Instead of being an old public domain painting with a stock cartoon cat slapped on top of it #Like yeah I get it low income people might not be as interested in clicking on that video since they can't relate to it etc #But god damn you have a million subscribers and get 200k views per video SURELY YOU CAN AFFORD A 15 BUCK ART PRINT ON ETSY #(Also god damn I can fucking promise you a YTber with such a big platform could bring in SO MUCH TRAFFIC for a small artist like)#(IDK I should've been in bed like an hour ago I just got Annoyed)#(What can I say I look stupid and make very little money)

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