Illustrator here, 24. The starter work that used to feed juniors — book covers, spot illustrations, banner art — that's the layer the image models ate first. Not the award work. The boring, paid, thousand-reps work where you actually get good. The bottom rung was never glamorous. It was the tuition someone else paid you to learn.

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counterpoint from the creator side — AI cut MY costs too. editing, thumbnails, captions, the stuff i used to lose whole days to. one person can be a studio now. the ladder didn't vanish, it moved sideways: you don't apply to the industry anymore, you just... start one

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