@Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @🌲Hidden🌲 @rees Or if they do, there's not much variety between them and the thousands of other identical internet artists. 

 @Parker Banks @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @rees @🌲Hidden🌲 Eh depressed perverted introverts are no strangers to fiction.  Now you may have a point that current year versions aren't far enough along one of those axes to be REALLY damaged enough to create the good stuff. 

 @542debdc @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @🌲Hidden🌲 @rees 
The people I have in mind are those like Kenzaburō Ōe, having a disabled son informed a lot of his writing (still haven't worked up the courage to read "A Personal Matter"). Or like Hoss mentioned, Monet going blind. That kind of suffering. 

 @Parker Banks @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @🌲Hidden🌲 @rees Yeah that tracks with what i was saying.  A pedantic level of discomfort probably isn't gonna get you anything profound. 

 People find Monet's Water Lilies compelling because he painted them as he gradually lost his sight. That story, that element of humanity makes them interesting and priceless. There isn't an "artist" today creating something that will be appreciated like Monet's pieces are nearly a century after his death. 

 @Parker Banks @rees @🌲Hidden🌲 @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado >Some neet artist in their gooncave probably doesn't have much life to draw from in creating moving stories.

probably because if they actually made fun of what was around them, they'd be canceled 

 @Parker Banks @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @rees @🌲Hidden🌲 @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado There's this sweet spot where creation has to happen.

You need to have enough experience to have something interesting to put into the creation, but not so much experience that you no longer see any value in your experience.