Society has an untold number of factors at play, but on it's own, art is a competition with yourself not others.

It's like exercise: You run up against your limitations again and again and again and again. The goal is steady improvement. Growth. Not stardom. Not "winning."

But if you view it as something you can win, then you'll view other's success as a threat.... and their removal as an opportunity for you to take their place.

Or for your idol to take their place, who you can live vicariously through until the inevitable point they reveal themselves as imperfect.

Social media assigning numbers and followers and clout to things exacerbates this, but doesnt change the underlying dynamic. To be good at art you have to love it enough to fight yourself for it. To be vulnerable enough to show your struggling.

But a lot of people havent come to terms with the fact that they dont love making art as much as they love the idea of being a "star." Of success. Of winning. So the time, effort, and work does not go to improving their craft it goes to something else.

No matter how righteous the indignation, tearing other people down does not improve yourself, at the end of the day.

And spending a lot of time performing on the internet can make you popular, but it doesnt make you better at art.