horselesscowboy:juneboba:y’all need to stop making a living off of young, bipoc artists for nothing
horselesscowboy:juneboba:y’all need to stop making a living off of young, bipoc artists for nothing [id: nine screenshots of tweets by dandywara. the first says “Yall getting out of pocket w some of “zines” which are actually art books”. the second says “So yall demanding people send their fuckin id’s in now to draw anime fanart? Are you gonna send them a 1099 form too for their hard work on your perfect bound book that youre gonna charge people 50 bucks for are you payin them in sticker sheets?”. the third says “I get that zines are fun especially for younger artists but the way some of these mods run their shit, demanding hours of work on the piece itself then usually have people doin extra shit only to either pay you in merch or give maybe like 300 bucks max is ridiculous”. the fourth says “I think a lot of people get tricked being like well theyre spreading funds equally among everyone! Sure, but please break down how much youre getting for hours and hours of work in a book thats being PUBLISHED. Not stapled together, published. Please value yourself more.” the fifth says “Lets not forget that the artists are now required to market and promo the zine up until the release date, which btw you should be paid for that work too.” the sixth says “I wish yall would just start calling these things art books bc there are people who still make classic, hand made, messy zines who have their work called lazy/poorly done bc the average person now thinks a zine looks professionaly published”. the seventh says “Zines were originally created as a counter culture with the sole purpose of being a free cheap way to share art among the often marginalized & yall co-opted the word into a way to underpay artists for a professionally printed art book im weak af”. the eigth says “This thread is about how people using the guise of “its a zine!” to describe a professionally printed art book contributes to underpaying artists for their work as well as defeats the original purpose zines which were created in direct opposition to capitalism”. the ninth says “Im not blaming any specific people for this cause language evolves & people will use whatever terms available to them but there needs to be a conversation about how a lot of these zine mods undervalue (especially young) artist work”/end id] -- source link