OMGEEZ, This Just Has To Be Addressed, Something With The Animation Community Online >_< !!!

OMGEEZ, this just has to be addressed, something with the animation community online >_< !!!

I hate that the community is powered by nothing but trends now. Like the recent “Sinking Town” animation memes I’ve seen, they are incredible every time I see them. But tell me why there are other posts with the captions “don’t let this trend end” or “sorry I’m a little late to this trend”

Like…. I hate that so much. An animation meme or just and animation pattern in general shouldn’t be treated as a “trend” or something that lasts for an only a week or two. Animations take a lot of time and I find it disheartening that there are people who are pressured to rush an animation to stay on a trend. That’s just downright ridiculous.

There are animation memes from 2015-2016 that STILL hold up today!

This whole “trend” thing is horrible for the animation community and especially young animators/artists.

It boils my blood seeing the say the internet is now, trends go by too fast, content is just soulless, people are unreasonably mean and ignorant, everybody loves finding excuses to get mad at things. (And I know I’m doing that right now, but that’s because this is important)

I feel like this TikTok can sum this rant up for me.

By f.u.zz on TikTok

I know time moves on and things have to change, but this is absolutely upsetting seeing the same cycle since lockdown and it’s depressing!! :((

But of course there’s nothing I can do about this and the internet is just going to be the internet.

Hopefully one day online spaces can be fun again like they used to :/

But what do I know? I’m just some artist on the internet.