NFTs have been and still are an incredible boon for the artists who get into it, both big and small.
All the big anti-NFT claims are either academically or observably false, maliciously spread by people who pretended to care about artists for years, only to be willing to do ANYTHING and turn a blind eye to everything in order shut those artists up.

The Long Version:
   • How Twitter Backstabbed Artists and a...  

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00:00 Start
00:21 "NFTs Don't Help Artists"
01:26 "Money laundering and Wash Trading"
02:07 "NFTs Don't Help Artists"
03:29 Stats "Proving" Artists Don't Make Money
04:49 "Rampant Art Theft"
06:30 "It Hurts the Environment"
11:24 "Its all a Scam"
18:25 The "Pro-Artist" Betrayal
31:49 My Theory for Why this Happened