Sometimes I think the rise of RPS or RPF (Real People Slash or Fic) has prioritized or personalized the consumer/creator "relationship" in a way that I simply didn't grow up expecting. People make themselves available on the 'Net, you subscribe to their tweets and shit, you can ask them questions and get answers, and suddenly you think you know/own them. You think your personal reaction to their product means the two of you are joined at the brain and soul in some vaguely creepy way. And then they betraaaaaaay you! Because yes, that's pretty much what you're fucking asking for, right there, when you get all tinfoil-hatted like that.
The truth, which we both know, is that creator and consumer have no relationship whatsoever. Just as the creator has no control over what the consumer "does with" their product post-release, the consumer has no control over the fact that the creator can go merrily on crating, without (horrors!) factoring them into the equation at all. And the sooner people freakin' accept this bunch of facts, the happier everybody's going to be.
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Date: 2011-02-11 05:22 pm (UTC)The truth, which we both know, is that creator and consumer have no relationship whatsoever. Just as the creator has no control over what the consumer "does with" their product post-release, the consumer has no control over the fact that the creator can go merrily on crating, without (horrors!) factoring them into the equation at all. And the sooner people freakin' accept this bunch of facts, the happier everybody's going to be.