THE DEMOSCENER MANIFESTO
by button
January 27, 2012

i'm not the one setting up a vs. competition between "us" and "them".
i'm quite happy to let them enjoy their shit while i enjoy my own.
that way "we" don't have to bend over backward thinking of ways to make
manipulate "our" demoscene creations to be more palatable to "their" tastes
and, in the process of doing so, only end-up transforming the scene into an
inferior carbon copy of "their" shit which "they" STILL would not appreciate
fully anyway and would just point "their" finger at "us" in mockery and
disdain because "we" do not live up to "their" SHIT standards.

i don't see why their is such an effort to please "outsiders".
i do not see what point "outreach" has. because, in this age of easily accessible
information and the net, anyone with the slightest interest in the scene will
follow the bread crumbs of their instinctive desires and find "us" anyway.
I'm sure 100s of thousands have already done so, found the wikipedia demo scene
info page, discovered the multitude of demos on YouTube, even tripped over Pouet
and lol'd and immediately clicked into the more suitable domains/communities of
trendyMediaFlashProds.com and boringPrerendered3DanimationTips.com .

no one finds our shit interesting. just live with it and quit trying to trendyfy
it into something it cannot be.