Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious

• LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To answer the “why”, it’s because the word “content” is kinda meaningless. Instead of making films, documentaries, talk shows, reference guides, cartoons… it’s all just this generic “content” slop that’s just there to feed the machine

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What a strange opinion.

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not that strange, I have a friend who literally said the same thing today in reference to one of his favourite channels shutting down. He preferred to call the stuff on this channel art, rather than content. I agree with the person above too, the term has always bugged me. It makes it sound so mass produced, like your job is to just produce meaningless “content” for people to mindlessly consume. And to be honest, that’s exactly what the mainstream YouTube culture is about.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, you don’t call it whatever you like, but content is the technical definition of it.

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      • westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I agree with this a lot. I really do not like the term “content”. It is like going to a recipe for some “slop”, like using a term that is just a catch all for everything tossed on a plate.

        Art is great. Movies, music are also fine terms. And so is simply saying they made a video. Watering it all down to the term “content” is just so boring and mind numbing.

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    • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not really. The term “content creator” is corporate speak. Google’s ad-based business model has a binary classification: content and ads. It’s not an inaccurate term, but using it implicitly endorses the corporation’s binary world view.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Words is funny sometimes.

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• isgleas@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Entertainers. Show women/men.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Showman/woman refers to a pretty specific type of performer, I.E someone who is on stage typically.

    Entertainer isn’t a label I’d necessarily apply to educational content, for example.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Then call them educators, or presenters… teachers, maybe, depending on the nature of their work

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      • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes it’s much better to use

        “comedians/teachers/musicians/educators/entertianers/phonereviewers/sportscommenters/singers/journalists/programmers/documenters/analysts/lawyers/lockpickers/politicians/presenters/trolls”

        … than…

        “content creators”.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What do you have against creators as a label? I don’t really see these difference myself.

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Or just call them Content creators

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not all content is entertaining. Someone who makes tutorials I wouldn’t call an entertainer. That’s why “content creator” is used as a catch all term to cover all of it.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Show women/men sounds like a 70s porno “medical” exploitation film

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• borgertwo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Call them what they truely are. Digital panhandlers

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s pretty insulting, a lot of what YouTube creators do takes real skill, and it’s a full time job for many.

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    • borgertwo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In the past maybe, but certainly not these days. It’s overglorified corporate money grab propaganda, that goes around shamelessy guilt tripping viewers when truth is spoken. Much of these so-called content creators do not much else than making face react videos to something they saw and just talk about their likes or dislikes. They get paid lots just to make a soy-jack face and shitty clickbaits. The amount of money some them get paid is large sums insane for little efforts in proportion to what worth it actually ought to be. There people out there putting real efforts and labkr to contributions to society to keep it running that paid squat in comparison. Its sad really. Go ahead downvote me, it doesn’t change the truth i speak.

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