What the role imports
The artist is one of the corpus’s most repeatedly attacked archetypes: genius, fraud, worker, idol, hostage, parasite, saint and salesman all compete for the same role.
Strong instances
Starvation Artist
the artist as spectacle, hostage and self-abasing emperor
Idol Singer of an Empty Hour
the performer reduced almost to an archetypal title
The Visionaire
artist/scammer overlap
JQD
self-description multiplies company, performer, writer and persona rather than stabilizing “artist” as essence
NPR2 Sound & Story
the media-profile form manufactures an artist figure
What JQD does to it
Artist is not a protected category here. The corpus repeatedly asks who benefits from the role, who gets to grant it and how quickly it can become another professional costume.
Lexical footprint
The associated vocabulary appears in 77 of 212 archived publications, with 176 matched word-forms. Hits are leads, not verdicts.
High-concentration sources include .EXE: 150 People I Don't Need, Described · Blonde Unread (ATTN: Nervous White Scribes) · 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐨 𝐃𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 /or/ 'N̶E̶V̶E̶R̶ F̶O̶R̶G̶E̶T̶' · Blown Dust, Tactless Data Loss · Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.