shelbswastaken: Honestly the most bleak part is that the creator went through immense amounts of pov
shelbswastaken: Honestly the most bleak part is that the creator went through immense amounts of poverty during the making of the show and actually based some of the plot points on his experiences…and so many western news outlets framed that as being an “inspirational tale of perseverance”.Artists should not be driven to financial ruin for the slim chance that their works will be noticed by the masses. Hwang Dong-hyuk was thankfully lucky enough to be working on a show with anti-capitalist themes around the time people really became disillusioned by the capitalist system…there are many other creators like him who don’t have such fortune.And you just know these figs are being made by underpaid factory workers. What sick irony for whoever has to assemble and paint these, staring these characters from an anti-capitalist show in the face as they’re being made into marketable merchandise on order of the system the show so staunchly opposed, crafted by that system’s victims. -- source link