If I had to guess it would be because artists/musicians/writers tend to fall into two categories. (Very generally speaking.)
Asocial loners who tend to get really good at their artistry, but also spend way too much time alone, never touching grass.
And performative types who love to bask in attention.
The former do it because they’re easily groomable in the online spaces they visit.
The latter love to suddenly be the center of attention because of their VERY special gender feels.
(Also, there’s a giant amount of social pressure in artistic circles. You have to like and dislike the same things. Means there’s less room for critical thinking.)
Went to college for art, there's a third thing.
We're too accepting and afraid to hurt feelings, I had a classmate draw chris chan tier trees on cardboard and came up with elaborate meanings to make up for the crap art.
Another classmate was FUCKING COMMISSIONED to do a very simple abstract piece with cool, neutral colors and wanted a single statement color. They liked blue, silver, grey and red. Super easy, and it was to be used in a salon. Easy, right?
Bitch made a "self portrait" of what she WISHED she looked like, including cherry red hair with a blue stripe, on a NEON GREEN BACKGROUND with bright purple flores de lies patterning. Everyone was saying how awful the commissioner was for not wanting to pay for it!
Know what I said? "No. All of you are wrong. When you commission, you adjust to what the client wants, not what you like doing. It's a disgrace on your professionalism and career to pull that, and if you can't adjust or accept criticism, you won't last here. Because the general public isn't forgiving, which is why I usually don't do commissioned works."
I was called an asshole, and she dropped out. Idgaf, I take pride in my hobby, I spent thousands upon thousands for this private college and wasn't going to spend it patting asses, I wanted genuine critique and to better my styles. A handful of others dropped, realizing I was actually being kind in how harsh I was, and that the asspatting? It didn't prepare them at all for how cruel people can be.
Example: I have had some dipshit curator tell me what my own painting medium was (it was wrong) and threatened to take my shit out if I kept talking back by correcting her. Guess who never ever got even an honorary mention of placements for best pieces because voting was entirely done inside the museum? They had a rule that they would never pick 2 of the same artists to win the same selection, guess what they did when I was the only one who did acrylic? Created an entire ass new medium placement to select the same artist so they didn't break the rule.
So imagine what happens if a tranny gets in? You will be fucking blacklisted from well established museums or showings for not "correctly" playing social politics and sucking ass to the right people. Being an individual is bad and wrong unless you do it the correct way, or the way a tranny decides fits their fetish of the day.
