a bad feeling about the future

i dont know if im just being paranoid, but i think things will get a lot worse for the community before they get better, if at all. huge sites getting taken down is not new, and i've witnessed the rise and fall of the greats. there's always been growth and recovery and the community has always persisted and expanded. however, with the takedown of bato and dozens of other sites, there's something distinctly different and ominous. all in all, the manga/manhwa/manhua and webnovel scene has greatly shifted. technically, they're more known, but it feels like the community and the charm of it have shriveled and shrunken in a way that i've never seen before. and i've been around for a while. something predatory is going on. people always shit on newgens, but the entitlement is crazy. the paywalling of illegally translated webnovels plugged into chatgpt is crazy. the lack of respect for the rules that have governed and self-sustained this system is crazy. bato is newer and i personally didn't use it much, but i have to admit it was one of the bests i've seen. i think we're in a really dangerous situation. there's more to it, but intuition wise, i feel it. idk. there's always change, but its like our worlds have been hollowed out, and we're made to examine the pretty exterior even though there's only residual rot left inside. in general, all literature is under attack. there's so much to these mediums of beautiful art, that have been twisted into mass produced moneymaking slop. the audience dictates what gets put out more and more, and that audience is turning out to be...quite illiterate, ironically. i mean this has mostly always been the case, but god its never been this bad. pirating is more accessible than it ever was before, but also these companies (cough cough, Kakao) are making sm more than they ever had also (while still underpaying their artists) in part due to piracy, which brings in revenue at the end road. but they're still so greedy, and people online are miserable and want to ruin things for everyone. capitalism, this that and everything. there's more to that argument actually that i could talk about for hours, but i'll just leave it at my emotional frantics.