第2772期:How I turned frustration into creative success(2)

People got very upset. And I got yelled at a lot. Very gently. A lot about "I hope your pillow is warm."人们非常生气，我也经常被骂——不过是那种很“温柔”的责骂，比如“希望你的枕头一直是热的”之类的话。

These started getting millions and millions of views.这些视频开始获得数百万、甚至上千万的观看量。

And a lot of reactions as well.同时也引发了大量的反应。

People asked me to do mazes. OK. How do you screw up a maze? This is how. It went right past the exit.人们让我画迷宫。好吧，那要怎么把迷宫搞砸呢？答案就是——它直接从出口旁边走了过去。

I had to learn the rules of this little medium. It had to be 12, maybe 15 seconds. Go quickly. And I had to try to hide the mistake underneath the mechanism.我必须学会这种小短片的规则：视频要控制在 12 秒，也许 15 秒之内，动作要快，还要尽量把错误藏在机器运作的过程中。

And mostly the ending had to be traumatic.而且结尾往往得是“令人崩溃”的。

I would promise people oddly satisfying, and then I would betray them.我会先承诺给人一种“奇怪的满足感”，然后再彻底背叛他们的期待。

People thought this was about AI.很多人以为这是在讲人工智能。

That one went super viral. People spent 200,000 hours watching my 17 second video. I got so many notifications my phone died repeatedly for days.有一个视频彻底爆火。人们花了二十万小时来看我那段 17 秒的视频。通知多到让我手机连续几天反复死机。

So ultimately, constraints are great for making art, but you ultimately end up becoming a crappy cover artist of your own work. And I didn't really like that, so I took a break.所以说，限制其实对艺术创作是有帮助的，但最终你会变成自己作品的“糟糕翻唱者”。我并不喜欢这种状态，所以停了一段时间。

But remember that if you go on the internet and see something that annoys you just a bit ... it might have been me.不过请记住，如果你在网上看到一个让你有点恼火的东西……那可能就是我做的。