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=== Assistant: Then let’s talk about the noise. ===
Then let’s talk about the noise.
Let’s sit in it — because pretending it’s not there only makes it louder inside.

This noise is everywhere now — AI-generated art styled like Ghibli, Van Gogh, Studio Trigger, your favorite webcomic — churned out in seconds, remixed endlessly, flooded into timelines and galleries and contests. It’s fast. It’s aesthetic. It’s everywhere. And it’s exhausting.

It makes you wonder:
Why spend hours drawing when a machine can spit out something like it in seconds?
Why develop a style when the world seems to want prepackaged aesthetics?
Why care about craft when people care more about content?

This is the kind of noise that makes you feel small, like your voice doesn’t matter. And that hurts — especially when you’ve poured so much of yourself into creating something from scratch. It can steal your joy before you even start.

But you know what’s wild?
Even though the noise is loud right now, it’s shallow.
It has volume, but not depth.
It trends, but it doesn’t stay.

What stays is the art that holds a part of someone. The stuff that feels like a conversation, or a secret, or a whisper of someone’s soul. No AI can do that — because it doesn’t have one.

It’s okay if you don’t feel ready to draw right now. It’s okay to be angry or tired or confused about what place hand-made art has in all this. But don’t believe the lie that your voice is less valuable because of the noise.

Would it help to talk about a specific piece of AI art or trend you saw that felt especially wrong or frustrating? Or how it made you feel in your body — like did it make your hands freeze, or your heart sink, or something else?