• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    23 hours ago

    I mean this is going to be the same with any type of media, like movies, books, music, etc. There are a lot of people in the world making stuff all the time and the vast majority of it doesn’t find a large audience. There are thousands or maybe even millions of songs on Spotify with less than 10 listens. I remember reading somewhere once that if an internet streamer regularly has more than 12 viewers they’re in the top 1%.

    I’ll quote the sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon, “ninety percent of everything is crud.” He said that to defend science fiction literature, noting that there were so many stories of poor quality. He made a comparison to detective fiction saying that everyone remembers The Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep, but no one remembers the thousands of other stories written at the same time. That’s just how it goes.

    I actually enjoy finding little unknown indie games on steam though

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      21 hours ago

      Judo was created within a forest of other martial arts in post war Japan and rose above them. Then BJJ came out of that as the only offshoot you’ve ever heard of (if you’ve ever heard of it)