fuck an “intended audience” how about we normalize engaging with new and unfamiliar art pieces on their own terms
ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the difference between pushing a product and creating a work of art
I can’t be bothered to find the thread rn. But there were a bunch of people talking about it, and I agree, so I’m sharing the idea here:
We need a death of the audience; lots of media gets worse because authors are too worried about a hypothetical audience. As someone engaging with media, you need to understand that you simply might not understand all of it, and that’s ok. But also I think more authors need to realize that it’s ok if not everyone in the audience will fully understand everything they’re doing.
then we should also push more for audiences not ripping authors to shreds when they do something in their art they dont like
there is a reason authors are scared. it is not a hypothetical audience anymore when they send hatemail for the author taking the media into different directions than some people want it to
“Death of the audience” is such a good term! I’m gonna hang onto that, as someone who writes about a lot of niche stuff. Sometimes a character is going to have a job or a hobby or something the reader isn’t familiar with, and you’re not always going to get context for every tiny aspect of it. If not understanding a single word (that isn’t at all relevant to the actual plot) is enough to pull you out of an entire story, that’s kind of on you.
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