>>212326495Aaide from it being a tool of communist subversion of beauty and body positivity, lots of economic reasons.
Because it's easy and art schools get federal funding in proportion to the number of students they take on, regardless of how talentless they are.
Then they can saturate the market with talentless hacks trained in this shitty style who will work for beans.
Then everyone else thinks this style is prevalent so it must be popular, and they imitate it because they are also talentless hacks looking for a bandwagon.
This is why I don't feel the least bit bad