#ultimately the bigger issue is obviously corporations' reluctance to pay artists for their work

[aeide-thea]

like. imagine if people took even a quarter of the energy they're currently spending on asserting that ‘humans are the only ones who should be allowed to consume a bunch of written work, gain some understanding from that of how stories and language typically function, and then produce their own narratives featuring stylistic and structural elements that also appear in the work they soaked up!!1!’ and used it to, say, look up sources for all the art by contemporary working artists they’ve reblogged without payment or even credit, and add information about how to support those artists onto their reblogs…