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I'll be honest and say that I don't know who I am I mean I'm very early into my life right now so it kinda feels like I've

done a lot, but

I still have a lot ahead of me.

I'm in a very exciting part of my life right now.

I have everything I need to do what I love right in front of me

I'm working hard to get what I want to help myself do things

But I still don't know who I am.

The Artist Is Absent: Davey Wreden and the Beginner's Guide

Every script, every post, every creative work starts with a vision. It starts with an author finding an appropriate creative medium to express the desired feelings and/or experiences to any consumers.

I took this away from this video thinking, “can this be taken to its logical extreme?” and “what is art, anyway?”

I tried to rationalize the latter question with this:

“Anything that has had human intention put into it is art.”

This means the following can be art:

• YouTube video thumbnails

• Plagiarism

• Elden Ring

• The frontend of youtube.com

• SponsorBlock's extension settings panel

• Unofficial XKCD Reader

• The concept of God

• Honda Accord

• The insides of the Nintendo GameCube

• The Wii U Gamepad region error

• Google Pixel 6a

• Homestuck

• Not Homestuck

• War

• https://mas.to/ 's administrator panel

• Bag full of SATA cables

• DIY estrogen

• Kurtis Conner's WaterTok video

• Katy Perry's Dark Horse

• Taylor Swift saying the word “The”

• My usage of labelling XKCD as “Not Homestuck” as a reference to XKCD having “Homestuck” as a suggestion on its front page

• My meta detailing of my usage of labelling XKCD as “Not Homestuck” as a reference to XKCD having “Homestuck” as a suggestion on its front page

• The concept of God

• List repetition

• Brainfuck

• https://abtmtr.link/

• The abtmtr.link domain

• The .link TLD

• The letter “l”

• The inside of a vacuum chamber

• The exhaling of carbon dioxide as done by human beings

• Network patchbay setups

• Engineering, as a trade

• Engineering, in ways unique to shower curtains

• The admiration of art

• The Mona Lisa

• The nail the Mona Lisa may or may not hang on

• The building the Mona Lisa resides in

• AI generated “art”*

• AI “art” prompts

• Asterisks, as a delimiter for footnotes

• Asterisks, as a character in the UTF-8 character set

• Asterisks, as a symbol in computer code

• Asterisks, as a formatter for modern text content

• Asterisks, as a delimiter for lists

• Lists, as a container for asterisks

• Recursion

• https://google.com/search?q=recursion **

• https://google.com/search?q=rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link ***

* When modified to a degree that it becomes purposeful human art (like a single byte being changed from 0A to 0B in the header)

** The part where it says “Did you mean: recursion”. The rest of the page is not considered art

*** The content within the search bar being purposefully typed by me, the author, to generate no results at the time of posting.

I am possibly the first person to search rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link – but who can really prove that?

Did I author rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link because I searched it up on Google? If I gave that URL to someone else and told them to think of me whenever they looked it up, would that be enough to prove authorship? What if they gave it to someone else?

You might think, “but it says abtmtr.link in the top! that means it's clearly made by you, right?”

No. It does not. Any old schmuck – any algorithm, even, could send a request to https://google.com/search?q=rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link and get the same exact page I got.

That begs the question,

In what way is this artistic? I mean, by my definition, this is art – but how? Would you define it as art because I am certifiably the first one to send Google's servers a network packet saying GET https://google.com/search?q=rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link HTTP/2? Would it be because I made this blog saying that I'm the first one to look it up?

What if I'm not? What if I'm the second one to put it into Google – maybe the third, fourth, 100th, 10,000th? What if I'm not even the first to put it in a blog saying it's mine?

I mean, for all practical reasons, I probably am... but again, I don't know that.

This definition of art is useless. It's clear that rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link is an idea, not art. Ideas can be reproduced. Someone else can go to https://google.com/search?q=rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link and get the same exact result I would. Art however, cannot be reproduced. If you destroy it, it's gone forever. Nobody can take https://abtmtr.link/, and nobody can copy its front page and expect it to be the exact same***-*. Art can be made of ideas, and ideas can be made of art, but ideas are not art, and art is not ideas***-**.

Nobody can reliably prove I searched up rrrrrrrwefmkleklntekogwkgewngvkown+-site:abtmtr.link first – logs can be lost, or wiped, messages can be fabricated, and empty Google search results can always get new results after something becomes popular enough.

***-* Technically it is the exact same code but it's not on abtmtr.link and it's hosted on a different domain (which means CORS will probably not work correctly, causing the site to function differently)

***-** I can't just beam ideas into your head telepathically – I have to adapt it to art in order to generate ideas in your head that sort of resemble my ideas.

I think that's pretty cool. Here is a list of things that cannot be art:

• Tree leaves

• Naturally generated AI “art” (no human intervention)

That's about it

There is a reason why it is like this: because there is art, and then there are results.

Nature is a result of thousands upon millions of years of evolution and adaptation. Nobody purposefully created nature.**** Nature is not art.

AI “art” is a result of a prompt and influence by hundreds of thousands of pieces of art to create a neural network.*****

Art can create results (like bad code generating error messages******), and results can become a base for art. You can always take water and add cheese powder to it to make cheesy water. Nobody is stopping you*******. That's art.

OK that's all I have to say. thank you goodbye

**** some people believe in god. in your case nature is art and that's fine by me i suppose

***** Fun fact: neural network weights are art by that definition, and that's also fine by me

****** i'm actually torn on whether error messages due to bad code is art or not. it probably can be (like removing files from software to intentionally cause an error) but usually it is not

******* depends on where you are adding cheese powder to water