I love this piece. Seriously one of my favorites. I could nerd out about it forever. It has a lot of my “millennial angst” and some pretty good hidden elements.
i was getting kind of annoyed at this twitter thread that was like, “it’s ok to trace art!! *as long as you use it purely as a learning tool and stop eventually” because yknow, there are lots of good reasons artists should be (socially) “allowed” to trace that have nothing to do with learning how to draw.
and then i remembered there was a net comic artist who was mass harassed for tracing *his own art* in order to make deadlines for the publication he was employed by, something which by all metrics should be completely acceptable, and realized internet art culture is totally detached from the world that the typical artist actually lives in