The Age of the Double Sell-Out

I was listening to John Rzeznik from Goo Goo Dolls talk about making their hit song “Iris”. At one point he talks about how they were so afraid back then of “producing” the song and becoming “sell outs”, but now-a-days everyone is trying to sell out as hard as they can.

Then Rodrigo Ghedin sent me this article on the topic of selling out:

The 20th century taboo against selling out was, at its heart, a communal norm to reward young artists who focused on craft and punish those who appropriated art and subculture for empty profiteering. Now the culture is most exemplified by people whose entire end goal appears to be empty profiteering.

The author says:

MrBeast is a businessman masking as a creator

And that these kinds of folks:

don't deserve our esteem as "creative" people. They should be content with the reward they chose: the money.