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I used to be a pretty famous ASCII artist. Actually made money from it. I made enough money to cover all of my art school education and every art supply I'd ever bought. Which means I'm a successful artist.
My ex had my old phone number. I got a message from her to check her voicemail. And then I got a message that she hated me. The voicemail was offering me a job as an ASCII artist. She hated me because I always seem to make money off of the absolute dumbest hobbies. I respected her for saying that.
Living the fucking dream, though. I salute you!
Than she can rest knowing that maybe long after she is dead, billionaires will trade in her paintings and hoard them in tax free zones at airports as ways to hide their money from the IRS.
My dream legacy
So question, I understand the whole using art as a money laundering/asset/what have you with the freeports etc. But as an artist, could I just team up with a crew of friendly millionaires and just have them buy my art at exorbitant prices to drive up it's perceived market value, and just slip the initial investors a majority of their payment back?
This is.. already what fine art is
Have you also cut off one of your ears for each painting sold?
Out of all the painters in this tweet, van Gogh was the second most successful. That's gotta count for something.
Is this true? Because he didn't deal with selling his paintings, that was his brother Theo's job (an art dealer). The arrangement they had was Theo would finance Vincents art life while Vincent would send him all his art. They were both very happy to do this arrangement and frequently wrote to eachother often. In fact the main reason van Gogh is so famous is because of all these letters which allowed us to learn about Vincents life and tragic end.
van gogh sold hundreds of paintings in his lifetime.
if you dont believe me, see this QI clip that confirms it.
Why did she only capitalize a single "I"? Like it's litterally the only capital letter. Also she didn't capitalize the other "i". Why didn't she just leave them all lowercase? I need to know this.
For emphasis, read it as if it was all capitalized normally but that one I is bolded
Intentionally lowercased the I because zoomers think formal writing is harsh or mean. Likely the next I was capitalized through autocorrect. Most zoomers completely disabled autocorrect so they can type in all lowercase
I'm too old to tell if this is satire or serious.
Gen Z here, mostly serious. not for that specific reason, it's just more of a general trend in informal writing. i don't have autocorrect off so that i can have apostrophes and hyphenation etc, but i manually lowercase every i when writing, usually..
I forgot to add this but younger people also think of ellipsis as ominous and having bad undertones like subtle anger
Weird. For me, the ellipsis is just a way of "trailing off" like I would when I speak. Kids these days... (no anger, just leaving off the "old man yelling at clouds" bits for brevity)
Language evolves, as it always has
Especially in informal writing, tone is important, so various techniques end up developing to transmit that tone. Formal writing, which is what writing mostly used to be used for, does not use large amounts of tone
I'm also curious why there's only one period, and it's not even at the end.
You don't need to use a period on the internet if it's the end of a line. The line break signals the end of the sentence, unless maybe they trailed off in
You really should though. Not ending with a period just looks... off. And there's really no reason not to, on phones, the period is generally right next to the send button on mobile, and it takes pretty much no extra effort on a regular keyboard.
Stop being lazy and actually end your sentences...
I think you thinking people are lazy for not typing the way you do says more about you than it does about them ;)
Idk, this whole subthread is complaining about weird capitalization. I don't think I'm the only one this bothers.
Informal text communication has increasingly played with punctuation and grammar to indicate tone, emotion, and cadence. This has been happening for decades. Language is a tool that is fluid and malleable. There are only rules insofar as there is broad consensus on how language works at the moment. Stop being a weenie
It probably has to do with strict character limits and the habit spreading. Twitter is only, what, 156 characters? I know text messages used to be something similar, and early on, they cost around 3 cents a letter and you had to hit the numbers multiple times to cycle through to the letter or punctuation that you wanted. It's where stuff like l33t speak came from, at least.
Fair. I grew up with 140 character limits for SMS and having limits on how many texts I could send, so I get it. But instead of cutting out punctuation, I used more direct language and abbreviations. Now that there's no real limit on texts, I'm a bit more wordy and am extra careful about punctuation, especially since I use swipe texting.
If you're typing a single sentence it's pretty common to leave out the period, this just keeps it consistent
I always use a period.
They probably just forgot or miss typed.
idiots lIke that are just really Inconsistent.