“It’s not about waiting for hours for this moment of inspiration to strike, It’s about showing up and getting started” Neimann, C (2017 ts.17:20)

In my experience as a consumer of media authenticity is something you can seemingly feel with some 6th sense. Especially when you are familiar with the creator usually there’s some feeling of joy or passion in the work where you get the impression the creator had fun while making it , you may not be right but surely authenticity is decided by the consumer not the maker.
I personally consider the artist ‘Sakimichan’ to be inauthentic because they always seem to paint in the exact same style and only characters from popular media at the time, I’m assuming to be more marketable for more supporters on Patreon which isn’t really a bad thing necessarily, but it doesn’t seem very fun.

As a creator some of my best work happens when I’m just doodling on a scrap bit of paper while I’m supposed to be doing something else, I think this is probably because I wasn’t expecting anything to come out so when something does happen it exceeds my nonexistent expectations, does that make it more authentic because it was basically an accident? in my opinion no but it might look that way to an outsider so who’s to say.

I don’t think authenticity is something you can make and call it authentic its always decided by a third party in regards to art, it really is just a concept, just like you could never say when something is truly finished.

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