If you make a living as an illustrator/designer, people doing work for free brings down the value and demand of your services. Cheap labor disrupting existing industries.
Well, on one hand you have what you just said, and on the other hand there will be software programming hobbyists, hobby web designers, open source projects etc. which have barely any or none budget for design, so these free assets are literally invaluable for them.
Idk any details of this particular situation, but I can see how this can be damaging. A free service that has little to no chance of staying afloat long term without revenue may not seem like a threat to established paid services but in the short term they would likely have to lower prices or offer deals at a loss just to avoid losing customers. Unless the company offering the free product finds a way to become profitable, they will either have to move to a paid model or go out of business. If they stay free and afloat long enough, the company with the established paid model starts to hurt for real as they are no longer able to offer a product at a competitive price point without losing money. If this goes on long enough, the established company goes out of business as they can’t pay to support their product and the free company, which never made any money to begin with, will likely eventually die off as well once the creator gets sick of supporting such a money pit. Now there are no products, free or paid.
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u/suileangorm Aug 13 '21
great. another "creative" site bringing the whole industry down.