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Or perhaps they just want people to enjoy the work. Success is an overloaded term.

I would definitely prefer people producing things I’m interested in promote them than not.

Yes, I also read “success” as in “getting your message heard”. Art is a statement and is pointless in a vacuum. As Sufjan says, “What's the point of singing songs / If they'll never even hear you?” Or the old “if a tree falls…”

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