You see the same attitude in indie game spaces. There's a definite cap on how much people think an indie game should cost, and they expect discount sales almost immediately. Meanwhile, stories about game developers taking out a home equity loan to fund development are treated as heroic.

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Heroism is not a sustainable model.

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"Indie animation will save the industry" always read as "people making stuff largely for pennies through passion alone will give me more things to watch". The only thing that can save animation is actually paying animators and consumers willing to pay for things that aren't on youtube.

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I'll never forget the fucking audacity of some people (children mostly, I hope) getting upset over the last episode of TADC being theater exclusive for 2 weeks. It went on to make 38 million dollars. Do these entitled shitheads think the studio would have ever made that much money selling plushies?

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I'm still pissed off about it because indie animators are not only expected to be perfect and endlessly innovative, but apparently they're also supposed to do all this without any kind of compensation. Just live off the energy of the universe like a bodhisattva and sleep under a bridge.

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