The driving force behind creating - What I want to see. An interview with the fictional banknote creator, olo. (Part 2)

I have no idea (laughs). There are times that long periods of thinking would produce nothing while sometimes when I work on uninteresting sums at work, ideas will come to me.

When an idea hits me, I would be so moved that I want to start making it as soon as I can. It’s the same when I create fictional banknotes and for parodies of news broadcast.

I want to see the end product as soon as I can, this is why I make them.

Indeed. If this was out of a different motivation, let’s say the number of retweets one can get on Twitter or to make some headlines, even to spread malicious rumors or to toy with the market shares, if you truly want it, you definitely can do it.

But none of the above reasons interest me so I will never do it.

I still feel the desire for my creations to be seen by a lot of people. The yearning to be “praised” is also well and alive.

Simply put, there’s no need for individuality if only “numbers” (that shows how many people have seen it) matters. There’s no need to use your mind for it. Which is why they will seem like they are machine-made.

Lately, I’ve been told that it’s not enough to simply attract views for promotional videos and I wonder if what I said previously is similar in nature...

I would like to have many people see it but I certainly don’t feel like keeping it to myself either. I do feel that a simple ‘wow, it’s interesting’ and letting it take its course is enough but there’s a part of me to desire more from it. It’s kind of complicated.

There will be people who dislikes it but the ones who takes interest in them are probably people like myself - is how I feel about it. Knowing there are such people might somehow reassure me that “what I feel isn’t far from the truth”. 

(intrigued)... Are the things I’ve said really all that interesting?