Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app

• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Almost is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

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  • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah it’d be cheaper to commission the artist for a dozen or so pictures for 45 bucks:

    First you need to blow some ungodly amount of money on breaking the time/space barrier… Then travel back to the 1920s and find a starving artist. Then pitch him 45 bucks for some art. Easy! 45 bucks to them is like 800 of our today dollars.

    Sarcasm aside- it seems people really are disconnected on how much a commission or art costs. Sure you can buy prints reasonably priced but any commission that isn’t a speedy doodle is going to clock in a helluva lot higher.

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• MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For a single piece sure.

  I presume the idea here is that you have access to their full library. Personally, I fail to see why I would change my wallpaper enough to warrant even a free app to change it, let alone 50 bucks.

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• yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you know an artist doing commissions that cheap they are depressed, desperate, or want to fuck you.

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  • Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But that’s the best type of artist

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … why are they always so goddamn hot.

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  • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could just commission someone on Fiverr for an original artwork

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fiverr is the worst. They enable abusive clients to find victims, and AI con artists to find marks.

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      • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So that sounds exceptionally awful. You have any more info on that?

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One piece digitally drawn in an hour or two maybe. Otherwise it is likely premade, generated, or not their source. Yeah- if you are talking backgrounds for a phone they could be more abstract or start with a base but for 45 bucks? That buys you an hour or two of that artists time- three if they like the idea or you.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just use a few wallpaper app and pay a random artist 25 bucks

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