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Since The Backlash he’d been on his own. Ostracised. When he appeared in the feeds, “artist” was always in scare quotes. Of course analogue fetishists had always looked down on him and indeed anyone else using what they dismissed as “ones and zeros”. But there had been others creating with digital. His community. But now he was on his own. The Backlash had basically cancelled him. His Agents made their “fake art”. He wasn’t an artist. Generation wasn’t creation. Nor was creative direction. He looked around his studio and his team. He slowly lifted his arms and began to conduct.