Taraz and I were debating yesterday on AI (sorry) where I raised the point about how we as a society are yet to actually decide what 'value' (as well as 'art', 'music') actually means, and until/if that state can ever be resolved (unlikely, since we all inherently have individual... values), we will perpetually bicker about things like downvotes.
And indeed this kind of post has been published on here in perpetuity - though it certainly needs refreshing frequently like this here to keep with the times. I suppose the same applies across the social board. TikTok's algorithm now enables somebody who literally just stares at the camera for 8 seconds with some generic meme-like backing track, to get hundreds of millions of views and therefore a chest of gold bars in return... sigh. I wish I could downvote entire platforms.