Sure it does. People create stuff. Artist create over priced same stuff but also sue you if you think about sharing it with anybody or creating your own. And the whole time they demand your attention by invading any cool space to busk. Like tipping culture, it invades every space. Eventually spaces that were collaberative and imaginative and unique are sued to oblivion and threatened with DMCA take downs so that this mediocre and costly mass produced stuff can be sold for 20x its value. If artist disappeared tomorrow, we would see a boom of content creation like never before. If we removed all the people trying to make their dollar in our spaces we would be left with actual creators not artists.

They’re greedy bottom feeders and only get worse the more popular they get.

Think of Justin bieber + psychosocial. Really Fun. Justin bieber or slipknot, not as fun. And in a world of spotifies and YouTube that have taken over everywhere, we all lost the unique creative opportunity the internet provided because we all need to over pay for the artist nobody asked for. Its only going to get worse. The internet was a refuge for people to get away from the over produced corporate crap and instead the artist brought them all here and censored and sued and threatened and put up paywall after paywall all to funnel us to their shitty fucking ad supported websites and pateron