Why do people buy unlimited "cute" art?
 

I'm not sure how to put it, but lots of minishops stores sell "cute" thingies. Ranging from pixel dolls and animals, to photoshopped plushies. Many of these are not customizable or personal. Such as, if you buy it, all you get is 'it'! You can't choose unique color combinations or buy items to dress it with, making it unique to yourself. Why are so many people willing to buy things like these? It makes no sense at all. If it's so cute, LOOK AT IT. There's no reason to buy it,'cause when you do, all you get is THE SAME IMAGE YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN! If you want to flaunt it around, there's no point because many people have ALREADY BOUGHT THE SAME FRICKEN IMAGE! The only ones worth buying are those you can personalize to make it different from the others, or ones that are only sold once (such as B/C pets).

Discuss... *pops a blood vessel*

She says it better than me >.< *points below*

I guess because if they're so cute some people just like being able to say they actually paid to have one? Maybe some people like being able to show off something they've earned? I don't know, I never saw the point in buying those things either.

I always thought it was laziness on the creator's part. :< Just my two cents.

I understand how you feel about that situation. If I were to create an art piece of some kind, I'd only sell to a certain number to people. Maybe 10 or so. Limited items are highly desirable.

But, I guess some people are just paying for the artists work. I mean, they did have to create the art. Place it online somehow. Then give the code to the costumer. It takes work, so I just assume that the customer is paying for the time the artist placed into that particular piece.

In addition to the above reason, cute things always sell well. Look at all of the toys out on the market. They sell tons of these toys. All of them identical. Sometimes they even sell out.

However, online there are an unlimited number of a virtual art products. That's why I said I would limit that number to like 10. And try to stay hopefully that the customer doesn't try to duplicate that art ( Give it to friends, or share copies and so forth). But most likely they will since they purchased it.

Other than those reasons. The looks, and paying the artist for their time. I really seen no other explanation.

I've been tempted in the past to purchase such art since it's so cute. But then I go searching off site. Sooner or later I come upon art free of charge. But that's me. Some people just have virtual gold to burn.

Why peer pressure? I'm sure that the owner of the mini-shop will push their items to be sold sometimes, but I can't honestly say I've heard of anyone bugging another until they broke down and bought something cute to put in their signature. I don't spend much time in mini-shop forums though, so maybe that's the reason right there.

I sometimes wonder too.

I mean, i'm all for the personalized ones, or the ones where the artist does a different one or draws it differently every time, but when its the same image...

though there are exceptions of course O:

hm...yes, I see where you are comming from. It does not good if your art isn't custom. When I do art, I draw that persons avitar as they are or would like to be. I draw it in any fun postion I can think of and sometimes I have stuff going on if there is more than one person in the pic. If that same person asks for more art, I change it up and make something else happen in the pic. I change backrounds and everything. There really can't be any point to a person selling 10 of the same pic to different people cause there is nothing special about it.

I never understood that sort of thing either.
I like having personalized or custom artwork.
If it isn't personal, then I won't be paying for it. It's just that simple.
I LOVE avatar artwork, so I'll get stuff like that.
I also like pets under certain circumstances.
But anything else just doesn't do it for me.~

I agree with you. If you're paying for artwork, then you should make it as unique as possible. But I suppose that it also relates to mass production in real life. For example, let's use a panda plushie. There's a shelf full of them at the toy store, and they all look the same. They each cost $5, and people buy them because they like them, despite the fact that they're all pretty much identical. This situation is similar, but it's not the same. It's one thing to have in your possession a plushie that you can hold and another to have a jpeg that you can just copy + paste. Frankly, if you have to pay for art that is the same as what other people get, it's clearly not worth it. You can just save it onto your Desktop or something, and it will still be yours.

I don't buy art unless it's customized. I have a shop on Gaia where I make little cocoa mugs like the one in my sig. The mug base (outline) is the same shape, but otherwise I customize it however people want.... I don't know why people would buy something that's not even personalized....

I might buy something like that (though not "cute little things" like what you listed)...IF what I was getting was a print/poster, not just some pixel badge to flaunt on the internet.

I don't see the point of buying something that's already there. I mean...everyone and their grandmother probably already has one. :|

i wonder that too, sometimes..
a friend of mine likes to buy stuffs like that, she said "its cute!" ..well, yea thats a reason..but i dont think its quite necessary to buy it really..she just likes to spend her gold perhaps x)