"Like a lot of other folks, I got caught up (and still am, far too much for my own good) in the pursuit of applause, or its wan cousin, the upvote. Redditors compete to be first off the mark; the sooner you comment, the better chance it’ll get a good response. And content fades quickly; Reddit’s algorithm requires older submissions to get ever-increasing attention to stay at the top of the front page. For this reason, Reddit’s creatives often dash off paintings without backgrounds or stories with simple structures, sketched with lean detail. An aesthetic emerges: dreamy, spartan, urgent, well-suited to the the demands of the platform and its audience (which is disproportionately young and male)."
http://boingboing.net/2015/02/13/reddit-isnt-the-future-of-cr.html
An interesting meditation on creativity on social media platforms.
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