Quoted from Zablon:At what point does licensing become so expensive and too much of a pain that you just start making parodies of the licenses like they did back in the day? I'm over band pins, and typically licenses are seriously too limited in many respects restricting creativity. Not in all cases but...
Seems like this is the deeproot model . . .
I agree in theory as it's amazing how many great earlier pins had sort of nonsense themes, but I think it's a tough sell now. Maybe because home buyers are so important now?
Themes are weird -- there is no theme that would make me pay 6K for a mediocre pin, but there are themes that could prevent me from spending 6K on a great pin. I'm more comfortable with my former position making sense than the latter.