went back to watch the Secrets and Sins trailer that i made three or four years ago and realised something:
today's wattpad authors, especially the ones getting famous on instagram by using AI covers and trailers, will never understand the rush of clipping together faceless scenes from different movies and tv shows to make a trailer for your book. the effort that went into finding the perfect picture on pinterest, asking for permission to download it and then designing a book cover by yourself for hours (instead of relying on prompts). like wattpad used to be fun because people used to showcase their own creativity. now it's just AI book covers, AI fanart, AI trailers, AI video edits and what not.
it's sad. truly.
the rise of A.I. has been nothing but the loss of ingenuity.