The Defense Department has a term similar to NERDSESSION--NITNOIA (from the Vietnamese Nitnoi [something trivial or small]). People who suffer from Nitnoia affliction (or, more likely, make others suffer) are refered to as NITNOIDS.

I think people in general don't have an appreciation for artistic self-authenticity. A self-authentic artist doesn't go looking to do something sucessful and live off it his whole life, he's always creating and trying new things.

Or put another way, consider the rock group that is still touring but only playing their greatest hits from thirty years ago--never thinking of writing new songs because they're afraid of losing their audience?