I sympathize with the VFX and 3D animation community and their recent plight, but something about the whole thing doesn't sit right with me. The 2D animation business in the US has gone through much harder times (with so much of the work in the field outsourced to other countries for years now). I don't think there was ever this much outcry and support for the 2D community even when they've essentially been dumped on and pissed on for years. Almost seems like another instance of the so-called "animation age ghetto" playing out again. People seem only to care now because they are realizing that their beloved (somehow deemed less for kids) superhero, sci-fi, and fantasy films (which are essentially animated films as proven by sites like the Before VFX blog) are nothing without CGI. So many things going on these days to make me upset with the current state of the entertainment industry as a whole, yet so much drive for me to want to keep pushing at creating the stuff I love.