That’s the thing tho - folk art is usually interesting even when it’s shit. IP has turned movies into billion dollar ads, mass merchandising, a literal tool of war.

Creative commons and reuse culture figures all you want, but rip that shit from the hands of the corporate state.

Also hell I like the setting of the Dresden Files but Jim Butcher is a misogynist and self-insert dweeb who FINALLY came out the the big climax book and not only was it just as disappointing as it could only have been because there were so many damn threads to the universe that have been discarded or shredded over the years and you need dozens of writers to start sewing the tapestry back together. . . It was just the worst actual writing he’s done since the first one.

Dresden Files for the people! Some of us will do something better with it and I can just skip the stuff that’s not at least interestingly worse.

SCP, as someone who was real into it back when I was also a shitty 4chan kid, fell off, and started to love it again as a new crop of writers have come to the universe, is my go to example of folk art fucking rules even when it’s bad, and a lot of SCP is just awful and childish (most the 4chan shit has been rewritten or purged unless you go browsing the revision history of like SCP-420 tho. … it was just some transphobic ‘jokes’ about Bridgette, that’s the SCP)

Lovecraft is prolly like this if you find good segments of the community, but I’ve never met a mythos fan I liked IRL and most the games just don’t scratch an itch for me. Some do, Dredge for example. Also Lovecraft himself is basically "what if a tumbler nazi poet who had some real grating “favourite word"s but people take him seriously?” and I jsut find it real hard to get passed that because I started with a collected works of Lovecraft book as my intro to it all. Everything he did has been done better, I don’t particularly credit him even when the idea was blatantly just to redo his story.