I often think about the people I used to spend hours with every day playing games online. I wonder whether they think of me too.

I would say that disenfranchised people have the potential of making more valuable art that anyone in the upper class, simply because the have more to tell about the world they are living in. Sadly you are correct that art is a lot about your connections, your name, and finances. Which is also why I dislike most art. I wish it wasn’t this way.