Beware the Substack gloom loop

Reminder: When creating, please create consciously.

12 Dec 2025

If an artist expresses for meaning and a creator engages for commerce, Gloom loops “occur when a fundamental category error arises: artists, pressured and seduced by the prospect of money, begin acting like creators and trap themselves in a flywheel that is hard to break out of.”

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