Unpacking Post-Authorship
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One must conclude they inherently devalue their work by being unashamed to keep it chained in the dark only for the potential of extracting petty cash—probably for the better. In their inherent commercialization, they’ve self-categorized their output as content, not art, and are thus content creators, not artists. Yet the work exists for itself, and is never produced in isolation, these content creators have no real right to hide a potentially memetically potentiated work from sight just to extort fees for an audience.