this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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creator: yeah the thing I dedicate most of my waking hours to? the thing I love more than anything in the world? its just content! its simply media contained between ads, and nothing more! the entire universe revolves around ad revenue and this will never change! poggers!!

me: sadness-abysmal

Death to America

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was hooking up with someone at a party and a friend walked past and said "that's content" and so I never spoke to either of them again

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

07

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I am right there with you. For the streamers I'd say at least have the courage to call yourself an entertainer. Content creator makes everything the same and it annoys me so much. A great TV show like the new AT: Content! Absolute swill like the Boba Fett show: Content! Those two things are not the fucking same and they're both TV, let alone also including movies or books into that mix. This guy who is funny and is really good at Guitar Hero: Content! V*ush: Content! Highly researched podcast about various US wars of aggression: Content! That NY Times show: Content! Shut up shut up shut the fuck up!

Shut the fuck up. Its so flattening and disheartening. If you actually think you're good at it, whatever it is you do, then you're better than that. Be a writer, be an entertainer, a musician, a streamer, a video producer or a podcaster or whatever. I can't imagine identifying as a "content creator," "I make slop" I fucking hope not.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

content makes me content

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Like and subscribe and ring the bell because I am your pretend friend and you can pretend that I am talking directly to you while making saccharine perfomative reaction faces about whatever I'm looking at heated-gamer-moment

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The flattening of every kind of different thing to just "content" that you passively take in is soooooo fucking disheartening. We're witnessing the death of creative humanity, and the birth of the human machine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I’m a discontent creator

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's just a generic word that keeps them from boxing themselves in. It includes: streaming a game, talking to your audience, reacting to funny videos, prewritten skits, karaoke, making music, interviewing someone, touring an area, etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We all live under capitalism. For creators, it's easier to say "that's content" than "that will enable me to eat in the future".

If anything I appreciate the honesty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

at least they don't pretend it's art.

it's product.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm okay with people calling the slop content. New Star Wars TV show? Content. Netflix series about a C-List Marvel character? Content. Any sort of streamer? Content.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything that is created devoid of the profit motive is 'art', everything else is product to be sold.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Packing peanuts? content. Scree? content. mixed fill? content. Polyester batting? content.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's pretty disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now the word's lost all meaning on me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Turning everything unto a product sucks. Soulless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All that is solid melts into air

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Patrick Willems moment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At a festival where there is also political input the Content is a tent in which political content is brought to the masses by the masses. I liked that pun. However at a less vanilla festival the content was the place where you could have nice cuddles and just chill out with good vibes.