The structural damage AI-generated content is inflicting on creative communities is not contingent on any legal finding — it is a present-tense market condition. Fan artists and independent creators compete for visibility in search results, recommendation algorithms, and community feeds where volume dominates. When those spaces fill with generated images, the human creators who built audiences through consistent, distinct work find themselves invisible not because their work degraded but because the signal-to-noise ratio collapsed around them. The complaint about Dungeon Crawler Carl fan art captures the mechanism: the problem is…