A) Yes, he does seem to have gotten these specifically for Iron Lung.
B) DVD and CD burners are not devices that exist exclusively for bootlegging. You can go buy one yourself right now. If you make a movie, an album, a game, you are entirely free to burn copies and distribute them.
When I say "I can't help but believe he's onto something," that's what I'm talking about.
Not that everyone should suddenly start mass-producing DVDs in their basement.
I mean the underlying idea.
That we've become so accustomed to everything existing at the mercy of platforms, storefronts, algorithms, licensing agreements, and corporate infrastructure that we've almost forgotten creators can just... put things out into the world themselves.
There is something appealing about physical media as an act of ownership and preservation.
And I think we've collectively become a little too comfortable treating the continued existence of creative work as something that should be outsourced to social media platforms and streaming services.
There's value in remembering that if you make something, you can put it on a physical object and hand it directly to another human being.
Just a thing that came from your mind, made with your hands, existing in the world because you decided it should.
I think we should be doing more of that.
Even if you're not a fan of Markiplier, even if you have absolutely zero interest in Iron Lung, I think there's something genuinely inspiring about what he's doing here.
The willingness to look at the modern content ecosystem and go, "No, actually, I'd like to put this thing on a physical object and hand it directly to people."
That creative work can exist as a thing in the world, sitting on a shelf, surviving platform changes, algorithm shifts, licensing disputes, and whatever fresh catastrophe the internet invents next week.
Maybe it's the preservationist bug in my brain.
Maybe I'm just old enough to find comfort in media that continues existing after somebody forgets to renew a contract.
But regardless of if you're a fan of Iron Lung or not, I think that's an idea worth being inspired by.
It's certainly inspired me.
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