"In chasing old internet ghosts for marketable aesthetics, many artists and collectors alike appear detached from the present, more interested in legitimising digital art through references to past genres (be it glitch art, post-Internet, or media archaeology) than in actually engaging with the creative edge of now. It is not the meme but the temporal lag that reveals the deeper failure: instead of inspiring, the space is following. Instead of risking, it's certifying. And that, to a generation raised on infinite feeds, is the true uncanny valley."

"In chasing old internet ghosts for marketable aesthetics, many artists and collectors alike appear detached from the present, more interested in legitimising digital art through references to past genres (be it glitch art, post-Internet, or media archaeology) than in actually engaging with the creative edge of now. It is not the meme but the temporal lag that reveals the deeper failure: instead of inspiring, the space is following. Instead of risking, it's certifying. And that, to a generation raised on infinite feeds, is the true uncanny valley."

https://memergenceofdoom.substack.com/p/aesthetic-lag-in-the-crypto-arts