One mans art is another mans garbage. But I do see what you mean. like many community's in life, success is more to do with popularity than content (school, work, politics, music, the media...you catch my drift). Unfortunately, I've always been in with the out crowd. I believe It's more important to be happy with your work & sincere about others than it is to indulge in friendly backslapping.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing?